Spent my 4th of July holiday hiking on Franconia ridge in White mountains in New Hampshire. Was a hot day but beautiful views from the views made up for it.
I was planning to do a live twitter update of the hike like @gauravsabnis but, there was no cell coverage and gave up on it after a few tries. Was having such a great time with my kids that I forgot about twitter updates later on when there was cell signal.
Old bridle path up to Greenleaf Hut. 
Views from Old Bridle path. First glimpse of Franconia ridge.
Greenleaf Hut was built in 1930 by @AppMtnClub
While hiking to Greenleaf Hut, the goal of hike is kind of abstract. It becomes clear when you can see the summit of Mt. Lafayette. Only 1.1 Mile away but seems so far and so high.
Closer to summit, Mt. Lafayette is a big rock pile which is very common for many 4000 footers in White mountains. Sometimes it is hard to spot the trail marker cairns among all the other rocks.
Higher elevations in White mountains is the only Alpine habitat east of Mississippi. These hardy plants survive the extremes of temperatures, snow, high winds and make these pretty flowers.
Made it to the summit.
On my favorite part of the hike. 1.5 miles on this ridge trail from Lafayette to Lincoln and on to Little Haystack. Beautiful vistas all around.
Looking back at Lafayette from Lincoln.
Panorama from Lincoln. You can see the parking lot at trailhead, old bridle path ridge, Greenleaf Hut, Lafayette and Franconia ridge trail.
Onwards to Little Haystack before taking Falling Waters trail down to the parking lot.
Ridge trail on the knife edge from Lincoln.
Many waterfalls along Falling Waters trail.
3900 ft elevation gain over 9 miles. It was a hard hike in all that heat. Happy that we finished with only sore legs and no injuries.
Several waterfalls on Falling Waters trail. instagram.com/p/Bk5Ss2glaz_/…
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