5:40 am. Mile zero Lincoln Woods Parking Lot

Chris takes on some liquid fortification on Saturday July 9, 2011 before he and Ben embark on the Pemigewasset Loop: a 32 mile circuit of the Pemigewasset Wilderness in the White Mountains.The Pemi Wildernes is 200 (?)square miles of formerly heavily lumbered areas and the headwaters for the Pemigewasset River The circuit runs clockwise with 8800 feet of total elevation gain over the Franconia Ridge along the Appalachian Trail, over South Twin Mountain and (departing from AT) over Mount Bond and the Bondcliffs. It returns to the parking area via a five mile long former logging railroad bed (important detail). The Whites and all that granite are a psychic home of sorts - Chris has been coming up here since college days and dragging the family at any chance. Why try to do this in a day? Well Chris is 50, the clock is ticking and Ben has been running to get in shape. Time to give it a shot.