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PASSACONAWAY CUTOFF & SQUARE LEDGE: 10/27/15On a chilly late October day I did a fall trail work trip with stalwart helper Dave Stinson on the Passaconaway Cutoff, the adopted trail of the AMC Four...
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BOLLES TO CHAMPNEY BUSHWHACK: 10/30/15On a crisp and increasingly sunny fall day I enjoyed an an interesting 7-mile loop from the Champney Falls trailhead using the Bolles Trail and Champney Falls...
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BIRCH HILL & CHURCH POND: 11/4/15I had a late start after morning business on this sunny, warm November day, so I opted for an easy approach hike on the south end of the Sawyer Pond Trail followed...
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PAUGUS BROOK EXPLORATION: 11/5/15I took advantage of another glorious November day for a hike into the Paugus Brook valley on the Bolles Trail, and a bushwhack exploration into a ravine on the east...
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 MEANDERING ABOVE HOBBITLAND: 11/9/15I spent a sunny afternoon bushwhacking around the area above Champney and Pitcher Falls and the cliffs called "Hobbitland" by rock climbers. On these northern...
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ON AND OFF THE PIPER TRAIL: 11/16/15On one of numerous fine sunny November days, I did some exploring along the Piper Trail on the east side of Mount Chocorua. Though this is reputed to be the most...
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SOUTHEAST RIDGE OF CHOCORUA: 11/18/15After looking over at the great SE ridge of Mount Chocorua from the Piper Trail on 11/16, I decided to revisit several great off-trail view ledges there while...
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MOUNT CHOCORUA: 11/24/15After admiring the rocky summit of Mount Chocorua from several directions recently, it was time to go to the top and look in wonder at the view from that magnificent lofty...
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THANKSGIVING GEOCACHING, 11/26/15Carol and I spent the morning and early afternoon of Thanksgiving Day visiting some beautiful spots on the southeast side of the mountains while logging 11 geocaches....
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BALD KNOB: 11/30/15Â With a late morning start on this chilly gray day, I opted for a bushwhack to 2300-ft. Bald Knob, the westernmost peak on Sandwich Mountain's Acteon Ridge. I had been to this ledgy...
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BALD KNOB LEDGES: 12/4/15With just the afternoon available for a hike, I returned to the Smarts Brook area for a 5-mile trail-and-bushwhack loop to three sets of ledges on the south side of Bald Knob....
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SLIDE BROOK & SOUTH TRIPYRAMID SLIDES: 12/8/15I spent a mostly grey, raw day exploring in one of my favorite areas in the Sandwich Range Wilderness. I hiked up the Livermore and Mount Tripyramid...
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WATERVILLE CASCADES & SNOWS MOUNTAIN: 12/11/15It was the last of several foggy, gloomy days in the Whites, suited to a woods and waterfalls walk on the Cascades Path and Snows Mountain Trail in...
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ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SANDWICH DOME: 12/16/15The unusually warm December has allowed for an extended season of bare ground, late fall bushwhacking. On one of the few recent non-gloomy days I headed for...
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FLETCHER'S CASCADES: 12/21/15On a gray, chilly morning I enjoyed a hike to several ice-draped cascades and an historic dam site in Waterville Valley. I walked up the mellow Drakes Brook Trail, then...
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A LOOK BACK AT THE 2015 HIKING YEAR: JULY TO DECEMBERContinuing our retrospective on a great year of hiking...The tallest of The Pleiades (the Seven Cascades) on Mount Moosilauke's Gorge Brook.Cascades...
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 A LOOK BACK AT THE 2015 HIKING YEAR: JANUARY TO JUNEWith each New Year it's fun to look back at the varied hiking trips enjoyed through the previous twelve months. In 2015 I was fortunate to visit...
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NOON PEAK CLIFFS: 1/5/16On a beautiful sunny, cold afternoon, I undertook my first snowshoe bushwhack of the season, making my way from the Drakes Brook Trail to some wild cliffs on the flank of Noon...
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MOUNT PASSACONAWAY: 1/7/16This spectacular sunny early winter day called for big views, and the impressive monarch of the Sandwich Range, named for a great Penacook sachem of the 1600s, delivered. From...
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RAVINE OF AVALANCHES: 1/14/16After an approach on the Livermore Trail and the Mount Tripyramid Trail, I did some snowshoe bushwhacking up into Avalanche Ravine, the basin north of Tripyramid's North...
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