Do a Painting and Prepare for Mt. Washington

Trip Start Jun 23, 1980
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Trip End Aug 09, 1980


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Wednesday, July 30, 1980

Did tai chi then a watercolor sketch.   Moved on east, stopping at a picnic area but it wasn't too scenic so went on to Berlin.  Stopped at Dunkin Donut and had two donuts with coffee-must be carbohydrate loading for hike up Mt. Washington tomorrow.  After checking out a shopping center that was a waste of time I went to route 2 near the entrance to Valley Road  (must be near Randolph)  and did a painting on masonite 16x20 which is a lot to finish in one sitting.  It was of the Presidential Range to the south and while I was painting it looked like a rescue helicopter was coming back from the mountains with a stretcher.  If you've read about Mt. Washington it is supposed to be one of the most treacherous climbs because of the change in weather from the base to the top with many sudden storms coming in.  I finished my painting and headed for Jefferson Notch Road.  I found a stream by the road where I could get cleaned up and then passed Jefferson Notch to go to the Base Station by the trail to see how far it was and parking etc Presidential Range
Presidential Range
 .  Then I returned to Jefferson Notch, elevation 3007, and as I remember it was billed as the highest through road in the state, not that much was going through it.  So I spent the night by the side of the road on the highest spot of the highest through road in the state. You didn't hear any of the sounds of civilization up there  but it was either dripping  rain from the heavy cover of trees across the road(just a narrow dirt one) or there were animals jumping on my roof all night.  Probably not the latter, but I did climb up to look in the morning to see if there was anything there or possibly claw marks on it.  You can check out my artwork and I'll be adding photos from this trip at artwanted.com      http://artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=42727      you can also see more of my stuff at my website http://home.earthlink.net/~greenvanartusa/index.html
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