Join us for this fall hike to Lonesome Lake Hut.   The whole hike is just over 6 miles with about 1200 feet of elevation gain.    We will start out at the Basin parking lot at 10.  Note this will be the side of the parking lot you would be on if you exit from Franconia Notch Parkway (I-93) coming from the south, and it would be the lower level of the parking lot.  If you’re coming from north I-93, just cross under the tunnel to the other side of the parking lot.   We will be driving a green Honda Civic.     If anyone is interested, we could carpool at 9:15 from the Hannaford parking lot in Plymouth (take exit 26, Rt 25, Tenney Mountain Highway a mile or two west and Hannaford is on the left).      Unless I hear that anybody is interested in this, we will just meet at the trailhead at 10 am.

  We will hike up the Basin-Cascades trail and Cascade Brook trail past cascades and waterfalls to the Lonesome Lake hut, where we will have lunch inside.   There is a stream crossing on the Basin-Cascades trail that can be difficult in high water (see our trip report from April 2009 with all the snowmelt at the time), but it should be not a problem this time of year.   This is the last weekend that the hut is full service, meaning that they serve full breakfast and dinner to people staying at the hut.     At lunch time, they probably will have some baked goods, lemonade, hot drinks, and possibly soup for sale, but it’s probably best to pack your own lunch just in case.       We will then descend the more popular Lonesome Lake trail to Lafayette campground, and then take the Pemi trail back to the Basin parking lot where we're parked.