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Wild River Wilderness - Ledges, Glades & Foliage: 9/30/19
With fall foliage coming on strong, I made a second late September visit to the beautiful, hardwood-rich Wild River Wilderness. I started from the trailhead at the end of Wild River Road and followed...
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Flat Mountain Pond: 10/3/19
Though the predicted partly sunny skies didn't materialize, a return visit to the remote Flat Mountain Pond area was still highly rewarding. The 4.3 mile hike in from Whiteface Intervale to the north...
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Mt. Whiteface via McCrillis Trail: 10/8/19
This less-used route from the SW is the oldest trail on the mountain. Though it lacks the spectacular views of the popular Blueberry Ledge Trail, it offers expansive woods, long stretches of good...
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Foliage Fest at Black Mountain Pond: 10/10/19
This was a re-run of a trip I did in June on the SW side of Sandwich Dome, but the vivid foliage made it well worthwhile.My custom route to Black Mountain Pond started on Sandwich Notch Road and was a...
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Owl's Head Cliffs: 10/15/19
On a glorious golden October day I joined Cath Goodwin and her amiable and energetic canine companion Hank for a hike into the Pemi Wilderness. After trekking in to Lincoln Brook, we navigated a steep...
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2019 White Mountain Crop Hunger Walk: Mount Chocorua Loop
On Sunday, October 20th five of us enjoyed a cool, cloudy fall day for the 31st annual White Mountain Crop Hunger Walk, a "hike for hunger" that benefits the programs of Church World Service. This...
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Ledges at "Bolles Pass": 10/22/19
Late fall is a great time for bushwhacking in the largely leafless woods at lower elevations. On this day of high clouds and moderate temperatures I returned to a favorite locale - the nameless pass,...
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Passaconaway Cutoff & Square Ledge: 10/24/19
A brisk, sunny day for a fall maintenance trip on Passaconaway Cutoff, the adopted trail of the AMC Four Thousand Footer Committee. Mostly drainage cleaning, with just a few small blowdowns to remove....
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Paugus Brook Valley: 10/30/19
For this correspondent, the period between foliage and first snow, known by some as "stick season," is a favorite time for bushwhacking at lower elevations in the leafless hardwoods. As it often does...
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Hedgehog Mountain (encore): 11/4/19
Last weekend a customer at the store reported a number of blowdowns along the UNH Trail on Hedgehog Mountain. Mark Klim and I had just done a fall maintenance trip on the west half of the trail last...
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The Bowl: 11/6/19
Every couple of years I'm drawn to spend a day exploring in the glacial cirque known as The Bowl, an inner sanctum of the Sandwich Range encircled by Mt. Whiteface, Mt. Passaconaway and the. Wonalancet...
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The Scaur & Waterville Flume: 11/13/19
January in November! A winter acclimatization hike on familiar trails in Waterville Valley. The temperature was 12 degrees when I started late morning, and 12 degrees again at dusk.A few diehard XC...
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Acteon Peak Loop: 11/15/19
A shoulder season mainstay for me is a ramble in the woods on lower Acteon Ridge, a long western arm of Sandwich Dome, with a visit to one or another of the area's several view ledges. On this partly...
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Dickey Mountain Cliff: 11/18/19
A predicted rain event held off, so I was able to enjoy a bonus half-day hike. I decided to head down to the Welch-Dickey area and bushwhack up to the base of the massive cliff on the SW ridge of...
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Mount Paugus: 11/21/19
On perhaps the finest day of the month I headed down to the Ferncroft trailhead in Wonalancet with a plan to hike in the Mount Paugus area. Driving in, I could see that the higher peaks of the Sandwich...
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Mount Israel Loop: 11/26/19
On a sunny, hazy day with temps in the 40s, I made a loop over 2630-ft. Mt. Israel: up mostly via bushwhack - climbing to a view ledge on Dinsmore Mountain and traversing Israel's west ridge - and...
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"West West Sleeper" Snowshoe Bushwhack: 12/4/19
First snowshoe hike of the season, a bushwhack in Waterville Valley. Approached via Livermore Trail and Cascade Brook X-C Trail, then whacked up the ridge between Slide Brook and Cascade Brook to the...
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West Hitchcock Ledge: 12/6/19
A morning snowshoe bushwhack to an obscure ledge on a shoulder of Mt. Hitchcock's West Peak. Restricted but interesting views of the Osceolas and Scar Ridge.From the Discovery Trail off the Kanc...
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Passing of a Legend
On Thursday, December 12 we lost a true icon of the White Mountains with the passing of Eugene S. Daniell III, better known as Gene Daniell. Our condolences to his family.Gene was a White Mountain...
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Lost Pass, 12/12/19
Lost Pass, the remote and mysterious gap between Snows Mountain, Sleeper Ridge and the northern Flat Mountain, in the western Sandwich Range Wilderness, is one of those places that draws me back again...
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