Hiking Around Camp Glen Brook

Later that afternoon we returned to Camp Glen Brook to spend some more time exploring.

Dad and mom outside the main building.

The same building in the late 70’s.

Dad and mom with a view of Mount Monadnock.

Myself, dad, mom, Jenny, Liz, and Jon.

Dad admiring one of the gardens on site.

Myself and dad.

Dad and mom standing outside of the house they lived in while they worked at the camp in the 70’s.

Myself with mom and Jenny as we walked to the lake.

A small cabin designed to look like a hobbit home.

A lovely view of the lake during our visit.

A picture of the same lake years ago.

Standing on a large rock.

Jenny and Liz.

Jenny, Liz, dad, and Jon.

Liz, Jenny, mom, dad, and Jon.

Myself, Jenny, and mom.

Photo by Jenny Kasper.

Mom enjoying the view.

Mom and dad catching up with Dan, the Youth Program Director.

Myself and mom.

Dad explaining where the lunch bell used to be.

Dad and mom standing in front of the A-frame cabins. This is where most of the camp group pictures were taken. 

Mom and dad waking up towards the gazebo.

Stopped to pick a few raspberries on the way.

Liz, Jenny, and mom.

Jon and dad.

The gazebo and swing with the view of Mount Monadnock.

Mom with the curtains she made with Marianne in the 70’s; still hanging in the cabins at the edge of the woods.

One of the beautiful gardens on site.

Mom (center) with two other campers preparing some produce from the garden in the late 70’s.

Dad and mom.

The Cheshire Railroad Stone Arch Bridge

For the next day of the trip we had a lovely breakfast with my parent’s friends from Camp Glen Brook.

From left to right: Grant, Jennifer, mom, Liz, Jenny, Jon, dad, Steve, and Abby.

From left to right: Jon, Jenny, Liz, mom, Jennifer, Grant, dad, and Steve.

After breakfast we decided to go back to visit Camp Glen Brook, but on the way we stopped at the Cheshire Railroad Stone Arch Bridge.

Morning Shopping and Mount Monadnock

The fourth day of the trip was filled with some shopping in Keene and a lovely hike on Mount Monadnock.

The beautiful stained glass window at the Keene Unitarian Universalist Church, where we stopped to check out a rummage sale.

The lovely stone facade of the Saint James Episcopal Church and the brick building next door covered in vines.

I caught this adorable little bee trying to break into a comb honey package at the farmers market.

Myself with Jenny, Jon, and Liz at the start of the Marlboro Trail.

We didn’t make it to the top of the mountain but the views were still lovely.

My siblings wanted to climb a little further and sat still and listen to the pine needles falling to the forest floor. It sounded just like gentle rain. 

Jon, Liz, and Jenny coming back down the mountain.

Myself and Jenny.

Beaver Brook Falls

The third and final hike of the day was at Beaver Brook Falls.

Mom and Liz walking side by side.

Beaver Brook Falls.

Jenny, Liz, and myself.

Mom and Jenny.

Myself, mom, and Jenny.

Jenny finding a geocache, a container hidden at a specific location that can be found with an app that provides clues and a GPS device. Most contain log books where you can write your name and the date you found it, but sometimes you find one with a little trinket inside. It is customary that you leave a trinket for the next person to find if you take the one from the container. In this particular container there was a log book and two small rubber duckies. Jenny gave me one of the rubber duckies and she left a small compass for the next person to find. 

Jenny frolicking.