Yet the next day, I walked into two waterfalls, and all the people I met on the trail were uplifted by the opportunity to see these waterfalls in flood.

Telephone service is being disrupted in part of New Hampshire and technicians are trying to pinpoint what is causing the problem and get a handle on how widespread it is.

Spokeswoman Jill Wurm said a fiber cable burned in Canterbury, affecting a Laconia switching station and long distance service from Canterbury and Laconia to the north.