Sunset 08-07-2012 Climb

Having never been on the summit of Monadnock for the sunset, I was thinking I should get around to that. So I left work a bit early in order to squeeze that in on a less busy day on the mountain. I took the direct route up to save time. I had plenty of time to catch my breath on the summit before the sun set. There were just a few other hikers that were all headed down before sunset. Temps were nice and it was just a little windy. The sunset was good and as an added bonus I was able to walk within about 20 feet of a young whitetail deer buck on my way down. I've been close to deer on the mountain before, but had never actually seen one while hiking. He had some nice antlers developing and pretty much just stared at me (probably wondering what the headlamp shinning at him really was).