Monadnock

View of Mt. Mondadnock from down the road. (All these pics are with the small camera, sorry for the low quality.)
When we arrived at Mt. Monadnock on Columbus Day, the ranger said it was 20 degrees with 30 mph sustained winds at the top. Gee, that just made me want to climb up a mountain to enjoy that!
First glance at the mountain from the trail.The caboose for the day.First overlook.On bald rock with peak in distance.
Almost at the top.
Caboose with 9 million layers on.
Pat climbing off the trail.
Did I mention it was cold?
View from the tippy top. It was the busiest weekend of the year.
Back at the bottom and happy to be warm!

Beehive

Shawn's Dad recommended that we hike the Beehive while at Acadia. The trail description read "Beehive Trail: Iron rungs on ledges of exposed cliffs, very steep". If it wasn't so awesome and fun, I'd wonder if he was trying to send us a message. :)

Looking up at the Beehive.
If you expand these pics you should be able to see hikers on the cliffs around the middle of the picture.
...near the top.Starting the climb.
First available pit stop.
My thought bubble..."Wait, who recommended this?"

Glory moment.
Shawn being more normal than me.
At the top.

The view.
Sand Beach in the distance.

Sunrise

It's not often (translation: never) that we wake up for sunrise. Frankly, it's a lot like sunset but a whole bunch earlier. But "someone" was determined to see the sunrise from the top of Cadillac Mountain.
"Someone else" was not as excited.



Sure it was pretty but it was chilly!
First light on downtown Bar Harbor.Mr. Happy Camper.
Excited that we can go somewhere warm now.

Oh no!

Everything was going fine and I was enjoying the view....until...I took one wrong step.
Trying to lift myself up.
We tried to take one with both of us but apparently Shawn thinks that he would smile while fake falling off a cliff...then again, he probably would.

Park Loop Road

The start of Park Loop Road.
Sand Beach.
Pretty overlook.
Making our way up Cadillac Mountain.


Here we are.
View from the top.


Blueberries.
Crazy seagull.