Nearly 22 years later Ben and I finally have our picture taken on the summit of Mount Washington. We climbed it by way of Tuckerman’s Ravine and descended by way of Davis and Boott Spur trails. Our most memorable hike which of course means the most painful and poorly executed one. The bear, appropriately named Tucker, was a gift after and sports a t-shirt that says: I Did It – 8-17-02. We did not take a summit photo at the time because waiting in a long line of tourists who had driven up or ridden the cog railway seemed pointless. The fatigue of hours of climbing may have been a factor as well. In this picture we are two of the cog railway tourists.
We departed from our usual Monday tour and went on a Tuesday in order to visit the Museum on Industry in Baltimore and see the Linotype there. It was, in fact, a relatively normal tour, normal in the way that it was NOT like our usual… unusual spots tours. It was non-the-less a great day pretty much spent in two museums that are very much worth the visit. It was especially good visiting the B&O with Craig in tow, who has become a walking database of train history and who was able to answer our questions and point out unusual aspects of the collection even better than the local docents there.