After we finished our second hike, we headed to the Franconia Notch State Park Visitor Center (and Gift Shop!) to wait for the folks on the long hike to join us and do some souvenir shopping.
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After that, it was a little more than an hour to our hotel for the night, the Grand Summit Hotel at Attitash. It's a ski resort during the winter, and was a nice enough hotel, but they were in the middle of re-painting and redoing a lot of the exterior (including ladders and people outside the back of my room when I arrived. Fortunately, they were gone by the time I went to bed. But the ladders were left.) But it was only for the night, and we were continuing on to Maine in the morning. Apparently they have replaced this hotel with the Omni Mount Washington Resort, which looks like quite an upgrade on the website.
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I honestly for the life of me can't remember what we did for dinner that night. The handbook says we went to a local restaurant, but apparently it wasn't that memorable!
Next up: Day 6: The Maine Stay.
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