Monday we decided to go easy and go up Garfield which is typically sold as one of the easier peaks.  This was the Garfield trail the whole way up and down with a hint of the AT on the ridge.  This hike started with a small disaster for me.  I didn't turn off the bite valve on my bladder, and when we got to the trailhead, 2.5 of the 3 L had leaked into the seat.  Thankfully, just a short distance down the road was a stream that I could fill up from.

This coming week, I'll be heading out to New Hampshire to do some hiking with a friend. This is going to be interesting. I've heard/read that the trails are not that dissimilar from the Adirondacks in that they also are old and in many places just follow the fall line of the peak. We shall see how true that is. While this will be my first time hiking the Whites, my hiking companion has hiked some before, and this is her reciprocating hiking I took her on in the 'Daks last year.