Whitefield, New Hampshire

A perfect sunny winter Saturday for a drive gave us an opportunity to drive to our favorite White Mountains in New Hampshire. We set our sights on lunch at the dining room at the The Mountain Grandview Hotel, which has a stunning view of Mt. Washington from its acres of resort land. New Hampshire is beautiful in all seasons, and we have often neglected going there as often in winter, but the snow on the mountains is beautiful so the lunch was a great excuse to travel there for pictures and enjoying the outdoors.
We made our way through Franconia Notch, and stopped at the Basin for a quick hike through the snowmobile paths. The semi-frozen Pemi river bubbled through ice and snow, and terminated in the amazing sight of the basin, gushing clear water through spots of sheer ice with a rushing, roaring sound that you must be there to fully experience. Snowmobile riders out in the sunny, crisp day raced by as we walked across the scenic wooden bridges along the trail.
Next we went up the steep road to the Cog Railway base camp as part of our usual pilgrimage to the foot of Mt. Washington and then on to the Mt. Washington Hotel for the usual photo shoot at the overlook. By then it was time for lunch, so we travelled to the town of Whitefield to relax in the resort dining room at the Mountainview with warm fireplaces flickering and taking the chill off the day. After a sumptuous lunch, we headed back to Cannon Mountain to watch the action at the ski area and the airiel trams trecking up and down the mountainside. On the way home we stopped at the outlets in Laconia, looking for bargains and then had a nice dinner in Concord and headed home.