Day 11.231: Lost River Gorge recap

With another day of good weather, we decided to make the early start that we'd originally planned to use for our trip to Mount Washington to drive back along the Kanc hoping to maybe see a moose in the early morning light. We didn't - but we did see a lot of turkeys! We had a diner breakfast at the western end and then with a few minutes before we could head to our planned destination, we returned to the closest day-use area to that end - Otter Rocks where someone had moved a lot of sizable rocks to make this popular swimming place a bit more deeper at this relatively dry time of year.

We stayed dry however, and didn't stay long, heading to Lost River Gorge around opening time.

The story is that it was discovered by someone falling through a mat of vegetation into waist deep water and it's not too hard to imagine. We enjoyed squeezing through the caves (all of which were short, but some were quite challenging:

The above-ground experience was rather excellent too: