Rad Run: Franconia Ridge in the White Mountains

As part of my annual trip back home to New England I spent three days up in Vermont with Josh Ferenc (Wild Neoteny), which included a trip over to the White Mountains in New Hampshire for a 2.5-3 hour run along a few trails in Franconia Notch. Josh, Greg Hammett and I ran up the Falling Waters trail to Little Haystack (4,760 ft.) and then along Franconia Ridge to Mount Lincoln (5,089 ft.) and Mount Lafayette (5,249 ft.) then down to the Greenleaf hut and eventually back to the parking lot below Cannon on the Old Bride Path.

The ascent was very challenging for me. It was really tough to go from the car straight up for the first hour. Once we hit the ridge things were a little easier, but I definitely gained some serious respect for running up there.

I gave Josh my GoPro to get some video of the adventure and while he was big on the selfie glamour shots he did get some pretty cool stuff. The summits were shrouded in clouds for much of the day but when it started to clear up there were some absolutely amazing views.

I'll post some pictures later, but for now I wanted to get the video up. We gained 4,072 feet for anyone wondering. The week before I ran 17 and gained a little over 2000 feet, so yeah that was a lot of vert for me.