Yes, indeed, the Flume is one of Nature's Wonders - a gorge carved out of solid rock:
However, if you have a five-year-old, chances are good you will spend most of your few minutes in the Flume chasing after her (and worrying that she's about to slip into the gorge) because she does not really appreciate Nature's Wonder and so barrels through slow-moving knots of the more contemplative as she tries to race up the steps as fast as possible:
Somehow, I just couldn't convince Nancy to drive five miles further
north to gaze upon the rubble that is all that's left of the Old Man of
the Mountain (she was never very enamored of him even when he was still
all there). Well, OK, I didn't try all that hard, either. Still, it's a
shame - I wanted to see all the flowers people have supposedly left at the
viewing site (they take the Old Man seriously in New Hampshire - he's on
all the state road signs, the state quarter, etc., etc., and I couldn't
find a single "The Old Man's fallen and can't get up" t-shirt for sale
anywhere). But have no fear: he will live on. Proof comes at the Flume,
where every single exhibit still displays pictures of a boulder that was
once suspended above the gorge but which crashed into it in
1882.
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