Chris Schmidt's Journal

Car is packed. Goodbyes said, and now on my way out of town.

Don't plan on hearing from me until friday afternoon, which is when i'll be back unless i get eaten by a bear. :)

I'm staying in Lafayette campground, and i'll probably check text messages every night in case an emergency happens. Other than that, white mountains, here i come.

I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon to go camping and hiking in the White Mountains for 5 days. I've got a trip planned out that I'm hoping will have me hitting 9 4000 footers:

• North + South Kinsman
• North + South Twin
• Little Haystack
• Mount Lincoln
• Mount Lafayette
• Galehead Mountain
• Cannon Mountain

We'll see how well it goes.

I'm staying at Lafayette Campground, in Franconia Notch. I've got a bunch of gear all packed up and ready to go. Need to finish packing up today, and get onto buying food and other things that I haven't got yet.

I haven't been camping in about 7 years. I'm looking forward to it a lot.

I'm going on my own. I'm hoping that the time gives me a break from technology (I'm bringing my computer, but only so that I can get photos off of it, hopefully) and a time to clear my head and come back relaxed/refreshed.

I'm also going to stop by the Globe Corner Bookstore and look for maps; you can never have too many maps.

And, since I've already promised to several people: I don't plan to get eaten by a bear. :)