Bob Jensen's Second Set of Favorite
Mountain Pictures
Including Some of John Compton's Pictures Taken on White Mountain Hiking Trails
Bob Jensen at Trinity University
Erika bringing in the mail bag
The Winter of 2012 has been a lousy now year
There's snow on the mountain tops and on the downhill ski trails (using mostly
man-made snow this year)
This is one of my favorite sunrise pictures taken from my desk
The bright light is the reflection of the flash on the window glass
The camera was pointed northeast between Mt. Washington (not shown) and Cannon
Mountain (not shown)
This is a sunrise picture taken from my desk with the camera pointed north
The pointed mountain is Mt. Garfield between the Twin Mountains and Mt.
Lafayette
The pink glow is the reflection of the setting sun
The views from our driveway are spectacular when looking down at the clouds
This picture was taken from our driveway in 2011. We've not had this much snow
yet in 2012.
Across from our front yard there's a lookout point with a board carving of the
names of visible White Mountains
In the opposite direction toward the west over our back yard the Green Mountains
of Vermont are miles away
Moon shots from our bedroom window facing west
Because of the lack of snow in 2012 winter hiking in the White Mountains is
easier
Especially note
the archive of John Compton's blogs at the bottom of the page at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/
Easton's Mud Pond is located
very near the trailhead for the Jericho Road Trail. This was my first visit to
this spot. It is only about 400 ft off the east side on NH 116, and I've driven
past it countless times over the years. It's not visible from the road, and as
they say, "out of sight, out of mind"! In Steve Smith's book "Ponds & Lakes of
the White Mountains", mention is made of a path leading down to Mud Pond from NH
116. I didn't take time to look for the path. Instead, I just parked on the
shoulder of the road, then plunged into the open woods and headed straight for
the west end of the pond to get a view of South Kinsman poking above the pond's
east end.
The photo below shows the view from the west end of Mud Pond (Easton).
John Compton at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/2012_02_05_archive.html
My previous treks to Mud Pond
have all been launched from the northern trailhead, and they have all been done
during summer months. And so, the southern approach route was new to me, as was
the trek to this spot during the winter. As you might expect, the scene at Mud
Pond during the winter is quite different from the summertime view. This stark
contrast is shown in the next photo which compares a snapshot taken during this
trek versus one taken during one of my summer hikes to Mud Pond.
John Compton at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/2012/02/from-missile-to-grave-trek-to-mud-pond.html
There is a chain of about 7 other
smaller ponds just a short distance to the north of Mud Pond. These ponds are
the result of beaver activity, and the collection is sometimes referred to as
simply the Tunnel Brook Ponds. From many locations along these ponds, there is a
view Mt. Moosilauke's South Peak (snow-capped peak seen in the next two photos)
John Compton at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/2012/02/from-missile-to-grave-trek-to-mud-pond.html
In the 1990s, Bruce, Doreen, & Daniel Bolnick
published a book entitled "Waterfalls of the White Mountains".
Shown in the snippet below is the total description of Shell Cascade as
described in the Bolnick's book.
John Compton at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2012-02-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=7
The weather conditions
for the higher summits as predicted by the Mt. Washington Observatory were
simply too irresistible to pass up. By mid morning, I could no longer resist the
urge to spend a portion of Christmas Eve in the mountains. So, I opted to head
up the Franconia Ridge via the Falling Waters Trail. Before reaching the area
around Cloudland Falls, I had already peeled off all my layers and was down to
shirt sleeves. Although perspiration was dripping off me, the liquids around me
were suspended in a frozen state.
John Compton at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=50
Mt. Washington and the other Presidentials in the background
In July 2011, Bob Jensen took this shot from the Rim Trail on Cannon Mountain
(facing the southeast)
In the summer months we watch gliders from our living room (the camera was
zoomed for this shot)
In lupine season we wish tourists would not walk among the lupine in front of
your cottage
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Bob Jensen's
photo set on White Mountain Hiking Trails ---
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set01/HikingTrailsSet01.htm
Long Trail Photographs (the Green Mountains of Vermont)
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?title=Long Trail Photographs
Oldest Long Distance Hiking Trail in the United States
February 18, 2012 message from my good friend Barry Rice in Baltimore
In the last 28 months, The Baltimore Sun has published all three of my submissions in the Travel Section of the print edition. The most recent was last Sunday. You can see them using this link even if you don’t have a Facebook account:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.601699392632. .2130135.20102311&type=3&l= 6289998058
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Bob
Jensen's Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/