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Return to a Slide in The Bowl
A trip into The Bowl - the spacious, wooded glacial cirque enclosed by Mount Whiteface, Mount Passaconaway and the Wonalancet Range - is always a special treat for this bushwhacker. There are big trees...
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The Wonalancet Range
The Wonalancet Range on the SE side of Mount Passaconaway is a less-visited but interesting ridge in the Sandwich Range Wilderness. Each of its three peaks - Mount Wonalancet (2780 ft.), Hibbard...
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Rambling in Pinkham Notch
Checking on some trails over in Pinkham Notch on a fine sunny day. Still feeling the effects of a lingering cold, so no major climbing this day. I started at the recently reconstructed parking area for...
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Dixville Notch
On a breezy day with ranks of puffy clouds Carol and I drove up to Dixville Notch to climb to Table Rock and snag a couple of geocaches. From Table Rock I continued along short sections of the Cohos...
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More Scenes From September
Continuing to catch up on recent hikes...MOUNT AGASSIZÂ I hadn't been up this little peak (2,387 ft.) in decades, It's ascended via an old, paved toll road and offers a wide southern view at the top. It...
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Scenes From September
Catching up on recent hikes in between rounds of editing for the next edition of the AMC White Mountain Guide. MOUNT OSCAR  Carol and I played tourist/hiker one afternoon and rode the gondola at...
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Mount Resolution
The flat-topped peak known as Mount Resolution, located on Montalban Ridge in the Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness, is one of the most interesting peaks in the White Mountains, with several...
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Dry River Ramble
After bailing on a planned bushwhack into the Sleeper Brook ravine due to a late start, I switched to Plan B, a leisurely ramble a couple miles into the Dry River Valley on the always interesting Dry...
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West Ridge, Stairs Mountain
This is an account of how a geocache led to a bushwhack. There is a geocache located on the far side of the Dry River, across from Dry River Campground in Crawford Notch. It is thought to be the second...
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Getting the Willies
WILLEY SLIDE 200TH ANNIVERSARY and A CLIMB OF MOUNT WILLEYÂ Â August 28th marked the 200th Anniversary of the infamous Willey Slide of 1826, a landmark event in the history of the White Mountains....
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Tripyramids
Headed in from Waterville to climb the South Slide of Mount Traipyramid for some views and ended up doing the loop over the three summits, descending via Pine Bend Brook and Scaur Ridge Trails.The flow...
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TWO IN THE KINGDOM
In the past couple of weeks I've added two more peaks to my Northeast Kingdom Mountain Challenge list, bringing me up to 12 out of 20. BIG ROCK HILL  On a fine summer day Carol and I headed up to...
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August Ambling
Scenes from a few rambles in some popular areas of the Whites. EAGLE CLIFF SLIDE A short hike up Greenleaf Trail and a little bushwhack to the 1948 slide on the flank of the Eagle Cliff ridge. This...
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Sabbaday Brook Valley
A hike into the remote and beautiful Sabbaday Brook valley in the Sandwich Range Wilderness is an almost annual occurrence for me. On this 9 1/2 mile round trip I visited three old landslides and three...
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Webster Cliffs
On a cool, partly sunny and windy day I headed up Webster Cliff Trail to check out an ongoing major relocation by the AMC trail crew and enjoy some views. A classic weathered trail sign at the...
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Northwest Ridge, Mount Hale
Mount Hale has a number of good viewpoints, but unfortunately the summit isn't one of them. When I first climbed Hale in 1978, it had terrific views. Nowadays, thanks to prolific tree growth, you must...
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Hiking in the Kingdom
Spent another day up in the Northeast Kingdom climbing two small peaks - Moose Mountain and Haystack Mountain - on either side of Lake Willoughby. This brings me up to 10 peaks climbed on the Northeast...
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Scenes from Downes Brook Slide
A hot, humid day with low water levels in Downes Brook was a good day to return to a favorite place, the open ledges on the lower part of the Downes Brook Slide, which creased the northern slope of...
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Groton State Forest
Continuing to explore Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, I spent a day wandering the trails of the 26,000-acre Groton State Forest, which includes several small state parks within its boundaries. First I...
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Spruce Mountain (Vermont) Summit & Slide
For many years I have gazed at the lumpy outline of Vermont's Signal Mountain Range, which is prominent in the mid-distance from many viewpoints in the western Whites. The highest peaks in that range -...
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