I took the trail from the end of Belknap Mountain Road which was quite deceiving to find. The map I had didn't have the entire road on it so finding the right parking area was difficult. I hiked up the trail to a junction where turning left would bring me to Piper and right to Whiteface. I decided to summit Piper First.
It was a nice little summit with good views. I would say it was definitely the better of the two summits today.
Once on top I fiddled around with my new camera for a while. Still learning with it but it is definitely fun.
I decided to head down and soon enough I realized that I could see my next destination, Mt. Whiteface. Little did I know that the view from here was deceiving. You'll see what i'm talking about in a minute.I continued on down the mountain back to the junction and continued on to Mount Whiteface. The trail soon turned into a dirt road with obvious signs of recent use. There were broken taillights and flat tires and pieces of vehicle everywhere, lots of beer cans and it soon became apparent that this is a local party spot for the youth.
Due to the recent rains however there were many patches of much which the frogs/toads (I'm not sure how to tell the difference) seemed to like.I kept moving after taking numerous pictures which all came out terrible except for this one of the frogs. I continued the littered road up to the summit and found that the summit wasn't much better. There was a fire pit with all kinds of garbage in it, a stove in the woods all rusted out with pots and pans hanging from a tree and just a general amount of trash everhwhere. There were two older gentleman on the summit as well who seemed equally unimpressed. I don't know how people could do this. There was even a rusted out exhaust system on top.
I definatly will not be hiking this mountain again. I will probably tackle Piper but not Whiteface. On a brighter note though, I sent in for my Patch and should receive it soon.
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