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Mt Lafayette, Mt Lincoln - page 4 of 4

After my second climb up Mt Lafayette, I took a short rest and a couple of pictures. Despite the camera incident, the views from the ridge were great, although I had expected the ridge to be a bit narrower than it turned out to be. I enjoyed looking down the dropoffs to the east and the ravines on the west. I saw what appeared to be two slides on the southeast side of Mt Lafayette. 

Some of the trail signs on top of Mt Lafayette were faded, so I couldn’t tell which trail was the Greenleaf Trail. But I could see Greenleaf Hut off in the distance, so I took the trail that seemed to head in that direction.

I had to be careful going down. There were some steep slippery spots, and I was getting tired, but I made it down okay. I stopped to take a picture of Eagle Lake, then rested on the benches at Greenleaf Hut and watched the birds for a while. 

Unfortunately, I drank the last of my water at the hut, so I was very thirsty and dry by the time I reached the bottom. On the way down, I looked out over the ravine and saw Shining Rock in the distance. After I got back to the car, the first thing I did before heading home was to stop at the store and buy a soda.  

Looking northeast from the Franconia Ridge Trail. Mt Washington is the snowy peak in the distance, and you can see the slides on the southeast face of Mt Lafayette in the left foreground.

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My junk on the summit of Mt Lafayette. Don't worry, I picked all of it up before leaving. I was tired after climbing Mt Lafayette twice, the second time after retrieving my dropped camera.

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Mt Lafayette summit signs. From here, the Greenleaf Trail descends west to Greeleaf Hut, the Garfield Ridge Trail heads northeast to Mt Garfield and Galehead Hut, and the Franconia Ridge Trail goes south to Mts Lincoln, Little Haystack, Liberty, and Flume.

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Eagle Lake. This small alpine lake lies in a sag just below Greenleaf Hut. The rocky peak in the picture is the slightly smaller north summit of Mt Lafayette.

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Shining Rock and Little Haystack from the Old Bridle Path. Shining Rock is the oval-shaped patch of snow to the right. You can also see a portion of Franconia Ridge to the left of Little Haystack.

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