Set 03 of Dorothy's Winter
Wonderland
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
When Erika and I retired in the
White Mountains of New Hampshire in 2006 we needed various kinds of work
done inside and outside our cottage
Our new acquaintances told us that the best worker in New England was a woman
named Dorothy
They were absolutely correct
You can read my introduction to
Dorothy in Sets 1 and 2 of her Winter Wonderland
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set01/Set01.htm
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set02/Set02.htm
Dorothy sometimes hikes and
climbs with companions who take the photographs
In winter Dorothy hikes and climbs mountains wearing snowshoes
She's becoming a hiking and climbing legend in these parts
Most of the photographs Dorothy forwarded to me were taken by climbing companion
Bill Fratis
Other companions who take her pictures on hikes in these mountains are
Eric Cafazzo, Al Parzych, Rachel Bal
I first featured my
photographs of Dorothy building a very long rock fence
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/RockFences/RockFenceBeneathFoxRidge/FoxRidgeRockFence.htm
About 10 miles visible from my
desk are some of the ski trails of
Cannon Mountain
Cannon is in the
Kinsman
Range of the
White Mountains of New Hampshire
Regionally Cannon is one of the tougher (read that steep) mountains for skiers
and is where famed
Bode Miller learned to ski---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/WinterSports/Set01/WinterSportsSet01.htm
Cannon Mountain has 97 trails
with 70 currently open for skiing
There are eleven lifts, including a tram that runs winter and summer
At the top of the mountain there's a restaurant and bar and a rim trail that
begins and ends at the top of the tram
This ski resort is owned and operated by the State of New Hampshire
Natural snow is supplemented by giant snow guns drawing millions of gallons of
water from Echo Lake shown below
Some of the snow guns are over 80 feet up from the ground
I'm told that the power bill just to make snow is over $200,000 per month on
Cannon Mountain during ski season
The depth of spring-fed Echo Lake is closely monitored
Below is a shot taken of Mt. Lafayette from a Cannon
Mountain ski trail
At night I can watch the bright lights of huge machines that groom Cannon's ski
trails
One of Cannon's chair lifts begins in the tiny Alpine
Village of Mittersill
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Hotels/Mittersill/Mittersill.htm
You can see some of Bob Jensen's summertime
photographs of Cannon Mountain at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set01/HikingTrailsSet01.htm
Below are photographs taken of Dorothy on a recent
snow shoe hike/climb up Cannon Mountain
She doesn't use the lifts
And her climbing trails are not covered with man-made snow or groomed nightly
like the ski trails
The wind at the summit is usually very strong and very cold even in the summer
Dorothy did not tell me where the photograph below
was taken from above the clouds
Lives are lost so often in the White Mountains because the weather sometimes
changes in an instant
Making visibility zero for hikers who often die of hyperthermia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_on_the_Presidential_Range
Mountain Photographs
Set 1 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Set01/MountainsSet01.htm
Set 2 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Set02/MountainsSet02.htm
This set includes White Mountain hiking trail photographsSet 01 of Dorothy's Winter Wonderland Hikes ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set01/Set01.htmSet 02 of Dorothy's Winter Wonderland Hikes ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set02/Set02.htmSet 03 of Dorothy's Winter Wonderland Hikes ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set02/Set03.htmPhotographs of the Summit of Mt Washington
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CogRailroad/History1/CogRailroadHistory.htm
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set02/Set02.htm
Some of Wes Lavin's June 2016 Photographs
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2016June/2016JuneLavin.htmMt. Washington Photographs --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2007/Tidbits071218.htm
Photographs of the Mittersill Alpine Resort, New Hampshire ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Hotels/Mittersill/Mittersill.htmBob Jensen's photographs from the tram and along the rim trail atop Cannon Mountain
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set01/HikingTrailsSet01.htmBob Jensen's Favorite Pictures of Mt. Lafayette 10 Miles Distant
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Mountains/Layfayette01/Lafayette01.htm
With nine pages quoted from Bill Bryson's traumatic climb up Mt. Lafayette
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Anchor Books, 2007)Set 4 of My Sunrise and Sunset Favorites from the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SunriseSunset/04/SunriseSunsetFavoritesSet04.htmBob Jensen's Photographs of Sunrises and Sunsets on Mt. Garfield
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/SunriseSunset/04/SunriseSunsetFavoritesSet04Garfield.htmPhotographs of the Scenic Mountain Village of Jackson, New Hampshire ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Hotels/Jackson/Jackson01.htmHistory of The White Mountains --- Set 01
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/01/HistoryWhiteMoutains01.htmHistory of The White Mountains --- Set 02
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/02/HistoryWhiteMoutains02.htmHistory of The White Mountains --- Set 03 (Franconia Notch)
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/03/WhiteMountains03-FranconiaNotch.htmHistory of The White Mountains --- Set 04 (Crawford Notch)
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/04/WhiteMountains04-CrawfordNotch.htmHistory of The White Mountains --- Set 05 (Pinkham Notch)
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/05/WhiteMountains05-PinkhamNotch.htmHistory of The White Mountains --- Set 06 (Kinsman Notch)
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/06/WhiteMountains06-Kinsman.htmSeasonal Sunrises in the White Mountains --- Set 07
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Set07/Mountains07.htmSet 1 of Pictures from Paula Who's Now Retired in Roanoke, Virginia ---
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Paula/Set01.htmWonderful Photographs of Dorothy Climbing Mountains in the Winter
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set01/Set01.htm
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/