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I wanted to tell you about hiking in the mountains this year. Mom and Dad took me to Mt Monadnock in southern New Hampshire - they said it would be fun to hike to the top of it... |
Mom and I stopper for a picture near a big rock. |
When we reached the tree line we could see all around and we started walking on exposed granite. We were about 1200 ft above the parking lot at the tree line. |
When we got to the top, Dad showed me the geologic survey mark denoting the summit of the mountain. We were about 2200 feet above the parking lot at the summit. |
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Then we took a picture at the summit. |
And this was the view from the top. The leaves were changing color and the countryside was all orange and red and yellow and green. |
The next weekend we went to a place near Franconia Notch called The Flume |
The Flume is a narrow gorge between granite walls that is between 20 and 50 feet wide and about 1/2 mile long. |
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The Flume was formed when softer rock that was layered between the granite eroded. The harder granite remains and forms the gorge walls and base.
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You can see many parts of the North East US that have been lifted and folded through geologic action, causing granite that once was horizontal and smooth to be broken into pieces and tossed about at odd angles. |
Waterfalls are everywhere in the White Mountains, with erosion smoothing the angular slabs left by the passage of ice. |
This is the headwaters of the Pemigewasset River in Franconia, NH. This river flows generally south from Franconia and eventually joins the Merrimack River that empties into Massachussets Bay and the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport, MA. |
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