The vacation - beautiful scenery, part 3

The following pictures come from our trip with the Cog Railway from the Base Station to the top of Mt. Washington.
Needless to say, it was an amazing adventure. Throughout the entire vacation, my comments of excitement had been reduced to "WOW"s and "Isn't that beautiful"s and "Unbelievable"s. Truth is, there's just no words that could describe some of the beauty of the scenery we passed through. And maybe it's not even all that beautiful compared to some other places but for me, in that moment, when I was craving beauty and I needed to feel like there were some good things still left in this world, those spots were my paradise for the moment.

On shaky ground - going up in the Cog Railway car at something like 5mph if at all. It was slow enough to walk alongside of it! LOL

Looking forward towards the incline...

The frost on trees as we got higher and higher on the mountain...

The water tank, providing water to keep us going up! (and later down!)

How the water didn't freeze up there is a mystery to me - the entire tank was surrounded by icicles...

Every now and then the clouds/fog would lift and you'd get a glimpse of the beautiful blue sky...

Another track picture, looking forward to inching up on the mountain...

Another one of those few seconds when the fog would lift - this was the view down into the valley below Mt. Washington

Frozen trees, plants... basically frozen everything!

Seeing the Rail Station for the first time was like being in some kind of scifi movie! It would show up and then the fog would cloud it again and then it would show up again. Seriously weird to approach it and not believe you weren't on some other planet!

On the way down, out of the blue the fog lifted... and stayed away until we got down to the Base Station again! Breathtaking views but sadly the windows on the carriage reflected too much...

When we left to go up, we couldn't even see as far as the first hill to go over... by the time we got back three hours later, it was the most beautiful day and you could see for miles around! To the right of the picture is Mt. Washington and its frozen top where we'd just come from.

Lost River Gorge - this was supposed to be a place where there were lots of caves you could try to crawl into but more than 70% of them were actually closed. I felt cheated in paying the $11 for just a walk around, even if it was as beautiful and romantic as below...

Kancamangus Highway in the White Mountains - and an obligatory waterfall by the roadside...

More White Mountains...

Mt. Washington from afar - this was the day after we'd gone up on it and if you look closely you can actually see the station at the top.

More Mt. Washington, and the red rooftop building you can see also was some kind of resort. I don't even want to think of how much that would've cost!

Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. We only got a brief few hours sitting around, playing games and just relaxing - our trip was nearing the end and the next day we would head home.

More Lake Champlain...

There's more pictures coming up so tune in soon to see more! ;-)