The best laid plans....... Today was our planned day for an epic hike up Mount Washington, the highest peak east of the Rockies. However the weather intervened and we decided high winds, low temperatures and low visibility meant the hike would not have been judicious - online the Mount Washington Observatory was predicting 65mph winds around the summit so there seemed little point in heading back to Pinkham Notch to be told the same! Given the weather and the 4...

We woke to a stormy, rainy morning: yesterday's rising winds obviously bringing in the change in the weather. We finished our packing and the little cleaning that was needed and made coffee to await contact from Don who had kindly offered to drive us to Bangor to pick up our hire car. This didn't look like an imposition as he did plan to go to Bangor later in the day to meet up with his daughter and go to the theatre but in the circumstances of not knowing Harley...