“The sun was warm but the wind was chill,” as Robert Frost said about an April day, describing most days this week.
On Wednesday, I decided to forgo climbing to a mountaintop, and instead walked into Shingle Pond, located at 1,710 feet on the east side of Mount Kearsarge North.
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