Cascade & Porter (peaks 1 & 2)

Ian and I set off to bag the first two peaks of our 46-peak adventure. My sister Lisa came along. We decided to start off with one of the easiest hikes, to see how we would do: Cascade & Porter mountains. Drove to the trailhead, parking along the side of Route 73 in Keene. Did a few stretches and got started.

We pretty quickly saw what the dynamic was going to be: Ian would march up the mountain as if he were on level ground, then wait for the old folks to come huffing & puffing up the trail.

After about 2 miles, the trail forks: left to Cascade and right to Porter. We did Cascade first, which was only another 0.3 miles, with a little bit of a scramble. There was a bunch of people and even a dog at or near the peak.

Came back down to the intersection and then 0.7 miles up to Porter. Replenished those lost calories with an ice cream at Stewart's afterwards.