Franconia Ridge (Flume, Liberty, Little Haystack, Lincoln Lafayette)

David, Julia, Michael and Zachary convened at the Lafayette Campground in Franconia Notch State Park on the evening of Friday, September 26th, 2014. In the morning my old Coleman camp stove leaked fuel and became engulfed in flames. I extinguished it by throwing dirt on it. We must have eaten a cold breakfast. Around 8:30am the next day we departed the campground in Michael's Buick and drove south on 93 a few miles to The Basin pull off where we began our walk on the Pemi Bike Path, south towards the Liberty Spring Jct. We reached the junction around 9am and broke right at the Flume Slide trail junction .6 miles later. We made Mount Flume Summit between 11:30 and 12pm. We reached Liberty a little after 1pm. Michael rolled his ankle coming down Liberty. Michael and Julia and Zachary bailed at the Liberty Spring / Ridge Trail Jct and David and I summited Little Haystack around 2:20pm. Lafayette appeared surprisingly distant from the summit of Lincoln. We reached Lafayette fifteen minutes to 4pm. We left at 4pm to reach the Greenhut at 4:47pm. We passed many people on the way down. A few people passed us but we ended up passing them when they stopped to rest. We passed a party carrying an injured hiker on a gurney. I got some remarkable photos of the foliage in the valley falling southeast off of Lafayette. Dave and I arrived back at camp after 6pm. Dave's father showed up a little later and cooked fish on the fire. Lupo and I drove back to New York the next morning.