Lincoln, New Hampshire

I am now in Lincoln, New Hampshire and almost finished with the White Mountains! The Whites have been absolutely beautiful. I climbed up to Mt. Washington two days ago and had a clear day over all of the presidential range. The wind chill was 20 degrees with gusts up to 70 mph but it was so beautifully clear!

This is the Presidential range behind me

This the summit of Mount Washington.

There are huts in the White mountains where people pay about 120$ to stay the night. That includes a supper and breakfast. The huts are run by college aged people. The thru-hikers obviously are not going to pay that much money to stay but in some places the only shelter is the huts. They offer the thru-hikers a work for stay where we get to sleep on the dining room tables and eat the left-overs. It is a pretty sweet deal actually. I spent the last three nights in the huts doing work for stay. The first two huts I gave a thru-hiker program to the paying guests. They asked me questions about the trail and why I was doing it and such. It was pretty cool and actually pretty fun. My last night in one of the huts I did dishes after supper and breakfast. The huts have been a great experience and I can say that I have not eaten better on the trail than the last three days! Here is one of the huts we stayed at and that is my sleeping bag on the right table.

After getting through the Presidential range we moved on to Franconia Ridge which has been one of my favorite places so far. I was walking with a new face to all of you named Deep Dish. Me and Deep Dish were going to try and push 20 miles over the ridge to get to town the day before yesterday. We started up Mt. Lafayete and had been above the tree line for about an hour when we heard the first thunder. Then we saw this moving towards us.We had about five minutes to throw a tarp down and take cover in some boulders. We rode the storm out for about an hour and a half. It might have been absolutely incredible to be in the middle of a storm above the tree line on a ridge. This is me and Deep Dish taking shelter under our tarp. When the storm let up we continued on up the mountain and made it to shelter after about another hour. Visiblity was at about 10ft the rest of the evening. The great thing was the next day was the clearest day we have had the entire time on the trail and we got this picture.

This is another picture up on the ridge.

This is just one of my favorite picture so far. I took this from the Imp Shelter right outside of Gorham, NH.

We are doing well and I am hoping to meet back up with Mike today! It will be good to see his pretty face for the first time in a few days. I love you all so much and am reminded of you each day. God is moving in me in ways that He never has before. I am daily being broken and rebuilt by Him and am so thankful for it. Psalms 46 check it out!

Walking south,

Addison (Reset)