This week I did an annual hike with my dad and Uncle Bill.  Both are my Uncle Tim’s brothers.  This year they wanted to hike Mt Sunapee.  None of us have ever hiked this mountain, but the trail descriptions sounded like it was not very hard and only 5.4 miles.  It was a cold windy day, but the sun was out and not a cloud in the sky.

 

    

We started out on a packed trail that lead us to the top of the Sunapee ski area.  It offered a great view of the White Mountains.  We had to follow the ski trail to the next trail.  We found that this trail was not packed out so I took the lead and packed the trail out.  This trail went on for over a mile.  We got to a nice look out of Isolation Lake, the trail leading from this point was well traveled so it made the going much easier.

 

Until we reached a point in the trail that was supposed to have a fork in it, but there wasn’t a fork.  The GPS app I use, the map we printed out and the AMC map I have all had the fork indicated on it, but it wasn’t there.  Having left a car at the trail head we where trying to get to we decided to bushwack to try to find the trail.  This added a few extra hours on to the hike and another mile.  We did finally find the trail and our car.  It was an interesting hike and great to be out there with my dad and uncle!