This is an old one, clearly shot earlier in the fall. But I figure some green and yellow and fall beautifulness will make our transition into winter bright and cheerful.

Glowing Leaf. Canon Digital Rebel XTi, EF 85mm f/1.8@f/2.2. ISO 100, 1/800.

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I took this sunset photo on November 2nd. The clouds had incredible coloring with all these layers throughout. Lately most of my shots have been people pictures but today I figured I’d share a nice landscape shot :)

ISO 100, Canon EF 50 f/1.4 @ f/2.5, 1/125, Program mode with -4/3 EV bias.

Abby accidentally left her key in my car so I had to drive home after my 8AM class to return it to her. Since I was home and today is such a beautiful day I decided to go for a bike ride before work. I biked out to Wiswall Dam, in Durham. The route is via Packer’s Falls Road (my standard route to UNH) and then Wiswall Rd. right after Packer’s Falls. The Wiswall Dam area used to be the center of Durham, with a mill and later hydroelectric power used to light surrounding towns. Once the University of New Hampshire was founded, the center of Durham moved to its present location. Now there is an old dam and a wooden deck bridge over the Lamprey River just above it.

After a short break at Wiswall Dam I rode home by continuing down Wiswall Road, eventually reaching NH 152 by turning left onto Little Hook Road and Lee Hook Road. Then, I followed 152 back to meet my previous route and headed home. The whole thing was about 10.1 miles, in about an hour of actual biking. Not bad for having my mountain bike and being out of practice with regards to biking.

You can see the route below (I did the reverse of what Google’s route shows):

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I started going through some old photos, including my photos from backpacking in the White Mountain National Forest last August (2006). The current blog header photo is from there. None of these photos have been posted here before.

This is the AMC Lakes of the Clouds hut stationed at 5050 ft. near Mt. Washington’s summit cone. Wind and solar power are used here to provide electricity for the hut (radio, minimal lighting, refrigeration). Lakes of the Clouds has had problems losing wind turbines due to the high winds seen at this location.

This was taken around the same time as the previous picture from the Lakes of the Clouds area. You can see some weather monitoring equipment to the left. The area to the left forms the Ammonosuc Ravine.

I took this earlier on our trip from the summit of Mt. Garfield. Traversing the Garfield Ridge was one of our longest days. The ridge runs along the northern rim of the Pemigewasset Wilderness, seen here. The Pemigewasset River drains this large basin. The woody mountain in the middle is Owl’s Head, bane of peakbaggers.

The evening after climbing Mt. Garfield we were at Zealand falls. The Zealand Falls hut is not far from here. It is the only of the huts to use hydroelectric power. Water is taken from the river and used to run a mechanically interesting well water pump for fresh water at the hut and a second water feed goes to a homebuilt turbine for electricity. Zealand is also one of the huts open on a minimal basis in the winter. We had hoped to go this winter, but conditions and busyness unfortunately delayed that project.

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