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This spot, called The Pillow, is named after the slippery granite slabs that have been shaped by erosion into rounded forms resembling pillows. At an earlier time, all of the NE Granite from Canada to New Hampshire was likely smoothed by erosion, but the ice ages cracked the granite with freezing and thawing, leaving jagged rock that is once again being eroded by the incessant flow of water. |
Another waterfall near Franconia Notch on the Pemigawasset. |
We walked for almost a mile along the Pemi as it cascades through the autumn forest. This river with rocks all along it reminds one of a river in Yosemite at Glen Ellis. |
You can walk out on the granite to the edge of the cascade. |
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This is a place called The Basin - it is formed by erosion as the water enters from one edge and circulates around the bowl carving the granite over thousands of years. |
And that was the last of our foliage trips this year - next time we get to the north country it will likely be covered in snow, and the cascades will be the realm of ice climbers, while these forests will be accessible only to snowmobilers, cross-country skiers, and other creatures of the winter forest. |
