Birthday celebrations on Mount Monadnock

Mid-September is full of birthday celebrations! 

Bo came to party with us!  Thanks for the fun decorations, fabulous lasagna and... uhhh... whole wheat cake, Seth :o)

The old man was next

Charlemagne's turn! 

Our low-key birthdays allowed us plenty of energy to climb Monadnock, in New Hampshire.  This mountain is apparently the second most climbed peak in the world, behind Mt Fuji in Japan.  I am not sure how that was determined but thankfully there weren't exactly streams of people lined up to climb it.

We are ready to burn off that cake!

It wasn't really 'hiking,' more like scrambling up a smooth, steep rock face.  I must admit I was afraid to come back down...

The top of Mount Monadnock!

A fun climb but not looking forward to sliding several miles back down the mountain