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BLACK MOUNTAIN (SANDWICH): 1/20/16On a cold, windy day I headed into the Smarts Brook area for a snowshoe bushwhack to the 2732-foot Black Mountain on the SW ridge of Sandwich Dome. The major part of...
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FOOL KILLER LEDGE: 1/22/16On a cold, crisp day I enjoyed a sunny snowshoe bushwhack with Cath Goodwin from the Sabbaday Brook Trail to a favorite ledge on the northern spur of the Fool Killer. The top...
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MIDDLE ACTEON PEAK, 1/25/16On a gorgeous sunny afternoon I enjoyed an interesting bushwhack to the 2489-foot middle peak of trailless Acteon Ridge, a western spur ridge of Sandwich Dome. After an...
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SACHEM PEAK: 1/28/16On a gorgeous winter day I returned to Sandwich Dome's Acteon Ridge to climb its highest and finest summit, the cliff-faced Sachem Peak. I had been here twice before on spring...
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HOGBACK MOUNTAIN: 2/2/16It was a fine sunny and comfortable day for a snowshoe bushwhack with Mark Klim to Hogback Mountain, a wild, ledgy SW spur of Mount Tecumseh. We saw lots of interesting stuff in...
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DICKEY NOTCH: 2/5/16Following a light snowfall through lunchtime, I headed out for an afternoon wander. With a 2:00 pm start I couldn't go too far, so I opted for an old favorite: a walk through Dickey...
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EAST OSCEOLA SLIDE: 2/8/16With a morning/early afternoon unexpectedly free, and a small snowstorm scheduled to move in, I opted to repeat a close-to-home bushwhack in Mad River Notch from three years...
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IRENE'S PATH, WATERVILLE FLUME & THE SCAUR: 2/11/16I enjoyed a nifty snowshoe trek into the Waterville backcountry on a cold, cloudy day with frequent flurries. Snow cover was thin and scratchy in...
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GOODRICH ROCK AREA: 2/17/16On a warmish partly sunny day following a strange weather day of 4" wet snow, then 2" of warm rain, I spent an interesting afternoon exploring in the "land of the boulders"...
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EAST OSCEOLA VIEW LEDGE: 2/18/16A sunny, crisp day beckoned for a return visit to a ledge on the north ridge of East Osceola with a unique view into Mad River Notch. Though many trails are at present...
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MOUNT TECUMSEH: 3/1/16On a sunny, fairly cold day I returned to an old standby and spent a leisurely day taking in crystal-clear views from various vantage points along Mount Tecumseh's...
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LOST PASS: 3/4/16On a day of soft flurries and peeks of sun I enjoyed a 12-mile snowshoe ramble with Mark Klim into the intriguing Lost Pass, a remote and beautiful nook of the Sandwich Range...
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RETURN TO MIDDLE ACTEON PEAK: 3/8/16With a somewhat constricted time frame on a gorgeous sunny, springlike Town Meeting day, I took a new route to a favorite ledge I had just visited six weeks earlier....
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SNOWS MOUNTAIN: 3/11/16After a morning trip to Concord, I enjoyed a 4 1/2 mile meander over this Waterville mountain on a brilliant March afternoon. The trails were a mixed bag of bare ground with some...
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"THE BEAK": 3/16/16The trek on this 50-degree, sunny-to-cloudy day included a three-mile walk up the Mad River valley from Waterville and a bushwhack from the Greeley Ponds Trail to a unique rock...
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GANDALF CAVE & OTHER BALD KNOB DELIGHTS: 3/18/16After waiting out some dreary morning weather, I spent a crisp, sunny afternoon on a bushwhack loop taking in several points of interest on the west...
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BALD MOUNTAIN RIDGE: 3/22/16Mark Klim and I visited a half dozen viewpoints on a bushwhack up the long SW ridge of Mt. Tecumseh to the shoulder called Bald Mountain. We enjoyed lots of interesting...
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BELKNAP WOODS and RED HILL: 3/27/16On a murky-to-sunny Easter Sunday afternoon Carol and I headed down to Center Harbor for some Lakes Region hiking and geocaching. Our first stop was the Squam Lake...
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FISHER MOUNTAIN BUSHWHACK: 3/30/16It was a gorgeous spring day for a bushwhack up this ledgy southern peak of the Tecumseh Range from the Shattuck Brook valley on the south. It had been ten years since...
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DICKEY MOUNTAIN LEDGES: 4/5/16On a sunny but cold day following a coating of snow the previous day, I waited til 2:15 to launch a short hike to off-trail and on-trail ledges on an old favorite, Dickey...
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