Today was the third of three Annual Mount Washington trips.  This was the first one starting in Hardwick.

Our neighbor Janette wondered why I was herding the kids into the car at 5 AM, just two weeks after we moved in.  She wondered if I was taking the kids and leaving Stephanie, but she decided not based on the banter between me and the kids.

Again, we did the first stop on Home Stretch.  I wanted to get video of the steam engine.  Audrey wanted to go to Hairpin, but each time we tried the new location, the weather was terrible.  Today was 50-50 cloudy, warmer and only a little windy.

It coincided that the lead bike rider got to my checkpoint right when the steam train was going up.  I took Errol and Audrey to the trackside and Olivia volunteered to watch the bike riders and write down their numbers.  When I got back to the car I called them in.  I used my still camera to get the video and it had a high frame rate, so the video of the monkey-works is very detailed and not blurry.

We hung around the car, the girls found a culvert under the road and a pipe embedded next to it.