An Urban Pond Clean-up and Fletcher Cascade Kind of Saturday              

Every year there is an urban pond clean-up in my ward. So I headed out to meet up with about 20 other volunteers to pick up trash and clean up the areas around Nutts Pond in Manchester.

There was a special pile for people to leave a cool or interesting piece of trash with lots of strange and bazar stuff.  Also, a cool trash trophy to celebrate the person with the most interesting piece of trash.

This was my second year doing the clean-up. Weather was in the 40s and overcast.

We filled up several trash bags, pulled out shopping carts and old camp sites in about an hour’s time.

After the clean-up I decided to take ride up to Waterville Valley and see if the Fletcher Cascades were flowing. I had gone up there many years ago, but the water was just a trickle.

The parking is the same lot as Jennings Peak and Sandwich Mt. lots. It starts off following some xc trails then the Drakes Brook trail splits and flows the brook.

I continued up to the Fletcher Cascade trail. From this junction the trail starts to climb. The  junction to the cascade is about .4 miles.

There was one water crossing that was passible with some careful rock hopping. Trail climbs steady and then once you reach the first cascade, it starts to get steeper.

The first cascade is a wide staircase waterfall. Very pretty and the flow was moving good.

After a few pictures and videos, I continued to climb toward the tall narrow cascade. The terrain is pretty steep in this section.

From here the trail continued but I did not. It was loose footing and I was by myself so I started to head back down.

I continued taking photos as I descended. As always, the trip back down was much quicker. This was another fun waterfall hike. It was great to finally see it with running water.