Best Leaf-Peeping Flight?

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 03:19:27 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

What's your vote?

Every September for several years (not this year, alas) I've flown up
to Lake Winnipesaukee, refuel at Moultonborough, thence along the
Sandwich Notch Road to Thornton, along I-93 to Lincoln, thence over
the Kancamagus Highway to Conway, and so to home (Hampton airfield).
This in New Hampshire, I should add.

That's what I was doing on 9/11, when I was grounded for an hour at
Moultonborough. www.pipercubforum.com/defcon.htm

A year later I completed the trip, a very emotional flight. I surfed
over the heigh-of-land on the Kancamagus Highway, or so it felt. The
leaves are just beginning to turn at that time of year in the
mountains, so you get all sorts of colors mixed together. (It's rather
like that now in southern New Hampshire.) Then too it's mostly
evergreens in the mountains, so you get that green-black background.

Fall colors from the air are particularly impressive--I think because
the viewpoint is not ordinary. You very rapidly become accustomed to
the local colors. We pulled a boat the first week of October last
year. I wasn't conscious of any notable color while working on the
project, but was amazed when I looked at the photographs and saw that
the leaves had turned.

The conventional wisdom is that this won't be a particularly good year
for color in New England. Not enough stress? Personally, I've figured
that a wet summer (which we had) and a dry autumn is the recipe for
color in the fall.
all the best -- Dan Ford
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