2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

September 28th & 29th On Saturday morning, after a night of sleeping in the wilds of the White Mountains, my friend Stephanie and I woke up alive!  This was the expected outcome, of course.  I can't say that I slept through the night, or well, but I wasn't kept awake by noises.  It was mostly a pain in my lower back, probably from falling on Thursday, that made it hard to stay asleep.  The forest was much quieter than I expected.  I expected to hear critters of varying sizes making noises and wandering by.  I could have slept through noises, but when I was awake, I heard very little.  There wasn't even much of a breeze.  Anyhow, here are some other happy and not so happy things from Saturday and Sunday: We got up and out of our tents around seven-ish Saturday morning.  It took about two hours to get the bear bag (which appeared untouched), eat breakfast, and repack all our stuff before we were ready to continue our trek.  This was lo...

Happy things from today: This morning, Nanni caught a mouse.  She was rewarded greatly.  No pictures, you're welcome.  😁 My friend and I headed for the mountains a little after 11:30 this morning.  We had a little miscommunication when it came to the plans which meant we stopped for lunch and to pick up a few things on the way.  Our plan is to go to two fire towers that are in the northern part of New Hampshire.  Along with that, we hope to explore and have fun along the way. On the way, we caught site of a another fire tower.  It is one that I visited back in 2021.  I hadn't realized it was along the way.  The tower itself was closed for renovations.  We had a nice walk up Mount Prospect.  We could have driven, but it was a good, short (about a mile) hike up the Heritage Trail. Tonight we are staying at a campground along Lake Francis.  It is a large lake and the Connecticut River feeds it and leaves it.  The river is, o...