While
Holly waited by the lakeshore with Muffin, Toi and I climbed up
the rest of the way to the hut and checked us in. We got our room
and found out that we did have it all it ourselves. We put our
stuff inside, then got Holly and Muffin, and settled in.
After
relaxing for a while, we went to the dining room and ate the lunch
we had packed. The hut sold lemonade, tea, and coffee, and Toi
got some lemonade to go along with her bag lunch.
After
lunch, Holly went to our bunkroom to rest and be with Muffin,
while Toi and I took a hike around Lonesome Lake. Later, while
Toi and Holly read and worked on crafts in the dining room, I
took a hike up the Lonesome Lake Trail partway up the side of
North Cannonball, almost to the Kinsman Ridge Trail, but turned
around because I wasn't carrying enough water and because it was
getting late.
We
ate dinner in the dining room. It was shepherd's pie, and was
cooked and served by the
croo. It was crowded and we were really
packed in at the tables. After dinner, we went down to the lakeshore
to sit and relax. The views of Franconia Ridge were great. At
night, it was a little hard getting to sleep because the hut was
crowded and the walls were paper thin. You could hear everything
anyone else did. Someone banged on our wall when we were talking
softly, and Muffin started barking. We decided not to bring Muffin
to an overnight hut trip again.
Day
2
After
breakfast the next morning, which seemed even more crowded because
we were at a table packed with a million little kids, we packed
up and headed down the trail back to the car. Toi fell when the
top of her pack hit a branch, but she was okay. She fell again
further down, which we discovered later was due to her hiking
boots being extremely worn and slick on the bottom. We stopped
at some gift shops in Lincoln, then headed home. We decided to
go to another hut sometime, but without Muffin and not on a busy
day like the Fourth of July.
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Toi
and Muffin in our bunkroom. Toi and Holly both took lower bunks,
and I took one of the upper bunks. Most of the bunkrooms at Lonesome
Lake Hut are 4-person rooms. A couple rooms sleep 6.
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