Low-Hanging Fruit: Peeking Around the Corner at Webster Brook

Okay, I had a few hours in the afternoon (14-March-2011), and so I decided to "pick some low-lying fruit". In other words do something that didn't require much time or effort.

Probably there are few (if indeed any) who have wondered what's around the corner when Webster Brook makes that left turn and heads NNW up that steep-sided valley toward Mt. Webster. Well, I was curious to "peek around the corner" to see what I could see.  I didn't expect much, and I didn't get much!

Perhaps the map below will help to better visualize the area that I'm talking about.

About 0.2 mile after crossing Webster Brook, I left the Saco River Trail and bushwhacked northward for a few tenths of a mile. I visited 3 spots as shown on the GoogleEarth map below.

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Below are 3 photos which show the main view from each of the 3 places I visited.

View from Ledge 1: (Looking toward Ripley Falls/Avalanche Brook area)

View from Slab: (Looking "head-on" up the NNW segment of the Webster Brook valley)

View from Ledge 2: (Looking southward down the Crawford Notch)

SUMMARY: Probably this can best be summed up by saying the following. This was a wacky bushwhack!

Although I was curious to "peek around the corner" to look up into the Webster Brook valley, this isn't a bushwhack I would have undertaken had this valley been located many miles deep in the Pemigewassett Wilderness. As said at the beginning, this was merely a matter of picking some low-lying fruit!