SRT25 - Day 101
Summer 2025 Road Trip
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Our second stop this morning is to hike up to Glen Ellis Falls. Glen Ellis Falls is a beautiful waterfall along the Ellis River. The Ellis river begins on Mount Washington, the highest point in New Hampshire climbing to an elevation of 6,288 feet above sea level. As the last ice age ended and the glaciers receded, Ellis River started flowing down the mountain and over the next 10,000 years the river slowly carved its way though granite and basalt to create this beautiful place.
Our plans today are to explore the White Mountains of New Hampshire and our first stop was to drive up Mount Washington. On a clear day you can see all the way to Boston and the Atlantic Ocean from the top. Unfortunately, we arrived at the base of the mountain too early. The road to the top of the mountain wasn’t going to open for several hours. So rather than wait in a parking lot we drove over to Glen Ellis Falls with plans to return to Mount Washington.
After exploring the falls, Bones and I stopped at a nearby ranger station to see about Mount Washington. It had rained last night and there was fog in the low lands and the forecast was for hazy skies and intermittent clouds. The rangers confirmed this report and said that the visibility at the top would be limited due to the clouds and haze. So, Bones and I decided that we’ll save Mount Washington for our next visit to New Hampshire.
Then we headed over to Sabbaday Falls.
How Sabbaday Falls got its name. Legend has it that one Saturday night, with winter rapidly approaching, workmen building a road from Albany Intervale to Waterville decided it was time to call it quits. They hid their tools, planning to return the following spring. Before leaving on Sunday morning, they named the brook Sabbaday Brook for the Sabbath day, or “Sabbaday.” The workers never returned to complete the road, but the name has endured.
Tonight we’re camping at Elbow Pond in the New Hampshire White Mountains. And that’s pretty cool for a couple of boys from Arizona.
Bones even talked me into going for a sunset paddle. With the excuse that it was to practice a few of the new skills that I learned.
Bones: Wow, Fireflies! There are lots of fireflies tonight. It’s really cool to watch them blink off and on.
Over the summer, we camped at several places that had fireflies but there were usually only one or two fireflies. Tonight there are dozens! I haven’t seen this many in one place in years.
