Sunday, I went and hiked my first New Hampshire 48 peaks, Flume and Liberty.  We started the day on a connector trail from the parking lot to the Liberty Springs trail, then headed up and turned on to the Flume Slide trail.  As my hiking companion said, this is the trail of lies.  The first 3.4 miles of our hike were lovely, and "flat", climbing about 1200 feet over that distance.  It was quite a lovely trail full of beautiful trees, moss, ferns, etc.  Just what you expect in a forest in the north east.  Then the lies ended and we hit the real trail.

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.