In the middle of October, fall color peak is past in northern New Hampshire, and now at the peak in southern New Hampshire. To see more autumn colors, we headed for Welch and Dickey loop, which is in the southern New Hampshire.
A day before I looked up, "10 Great Fall Color Hikes in New Hampshire" and found Welch and Dickey loop was ranked #1. The description was family hike friendly and short. It was indeed only 4.5 miles, so we were at first a little hesitant. We love a big hike like 10 miles with 3000 feet elevation gain, but the loop is half of our usual hike in terms of both distance and elevation gain. However, we prioritized the fall color and decided to check it out.
As usual we left Boston at 4 a.m. Since this loop is closer than usual places we went and sunrise time is getting later, it was dark when we arrived at the trailhead. We ate breakfast in the car with small light. By the time we were ready to go, the light came. Perfect. We could have come later, but we were concerned that "family hike friendly" place got really crowded later in the day (in fact, when we finished hike the big parking lot was full).
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| sunrise |
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| Orange! |
Warm orange sunlight now started shining on the orange leaves. That made the mountain scenery more welcoming. It was a color magic.
One little annoying stuff around here was a guy who had music on. He was at the Welch summit, so we took pictures and carried on hiking.
After a while I declare here that today I had my favorite fall color view of the year. That is the picture below. The color was magnificent. It was literally like a painting!!! This was a great hike!
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