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Scarface Mountain: 5/5/25
With a few hours free before an afternoon appointment, I headed up to the north end of Franconia Notch hoping to see some spring flowers on a bushwhack to Scarface Mountain (2802 ft.), a low northern...
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Blueberry-Jeffers Mountain Loop: 5/12/25
I had a gorgeous spring day for a late morning climb of Blueberry Mountain in the Benton Range from its NW trailhead, followed by a bushwhack traverse across Jeffers Mountain and a long descent back to...
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Springtime Tour of Tunnel Brook Notch: 5/14/25
One of my favorite places at any time of year is Tunnel Brook Notch, the scenic steep-sided pass between Mount Moosilauke and Mount Clough, a magical realm of slides and beaver ponds. On this gorgeous...
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Cooley Hill & Cole Hill: 5/16/25
On an unsettled day I headed over to the remote trailhead for the Cooley-Jericho Community Forest to re-visit some trails and hike one newer one that was only flagged the last time I was here. Managed...
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Passaconaway Cutoff Spring Maintenance: 5/20/25
I chose a cool, cloudy (and bug-free!) day for the spring maintenance trip on the Passaconaway Cutoff, the adopted trail of the AMC Four Thousand Footer Committee, which I have been working on since...
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Harrington Pond (Kinsman): 5/27/25
I'll introduce this lengthy report with a quote from my Ponds & Lakes of the White Mountains: "A mile south of South Kinsman Mountain the tangled ridgecrest parts to reveal a tiny pond wrapped in...
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Bald Peak & North Kinsman: 5/30/25
As AMC White Mountain Guide co-editor, I wanted to check out the new trailhead situation for the Mount Kinsman Trail on the west side of the mountain. As many readers know, the trailhead that has been...
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Kinsman Waterfalls: 6/3/25
On a beautiful early June day I teamed up with Easton resident Kris Pastoriza and her canine companion, Ruby, for a bushwhack up along a nameless brook on the west side of South Kinsman Mountain. Kris...
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Pond-Hopping: 6/9/25 & 6/11/25
EAST PONDS LOOP: 6/9/25 On a gray murky evening I walked the five-mile loop off Tripoli Road to old favorites East Pond and Little East Pond.Fine woods heading up the East Pond Trail.I was not...
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Avalanche Ravine Bushwhack: 6/12/25
On a sunny day with persistent wildfire smoke haze, I joined Waterville Valley sage Daniel Newton for a leisurely bushwhack up Avalanche Ravine (aka Ravine of Avalanches) on the NW side of Mount...
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Crescent Range Ramble: 6/16/25
After taking care of some store business, I drove over to Randolph for a late afternoon/evening wander on the Crescent Range, checking out some Randolph Mountain Club (RMC) trails I hadn't been to in...
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Frankenstein Cliff Loop: 6/20/25
After waiting out persistent showers and drizzle through lunchtime, it finally showed signs of clearing. I headed over to Crawford Notch for an afternoon/evening hike over the Frankenstein...
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Cascades, Slides and Emerald Bluff: 6/25/25
This ~8-mile loop hike in the Northern Presidentials offered a great variety of scenery: ledgy cascades and mossy streams, varied forests, trails easy and steep, bushwhacks to two old slides with open...
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Inlook-Kelton Trail Loop: 6/27/25
Took advantage of an unexpectedly sunny day for a lesiurely loop over less-used Randolph Mountain Club trails on the lower slopes of Mt. Madison, with plentiful waterfall scenery and mountain views....
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Mount Mitten: 6/30/25
After randomly reading a snippet about Jefferson Notch Road in the 1936 edition of the AMC White Mountain Guide, I had a plan for a late afternoon/evening bushwhack on the Dartmouth Range. From that...
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Ravine of the Cascades: 7/2/25
The inspiration for this memorable bushwhack came from a glimpse of a view I've obtained several times over the years: from the Israel Ridge Path as it climbs along the east side of Israel Ridge, en...
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Sweatfest Hike to Crag Camp: 7/7/25
On an HHH day - hazy, hot and humid - with a chance for afternoon thunderstorms, I planned to check out some recent Randolph Mountain Club (RMC) trail work on the middle part of Lowe's Path, and...
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Shelburne Trails Ramble: 7/11/25
On yet another humid, partly sunny day, I headed over to Shelburne, NH to hike several trails in the lower Mahoosuc Range maintained by the Shelburne Trails Club (STC). I knew that parts of two trails...
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Bumpus Basin & Blueberry Ledge: 7/16/25
Due to the stifling heat and humidity, and the ridiculously hazy views, I abandoned a plan to climb to The Howks on Mt. Madison, and decided instead to bushwhack into Bumpus Basin, the little-known and...
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Weeks State Park Ramble: 7/18/25
Doing "field research" for the next (2027) edition of the AMC White Mountain Guide, I did a late afternoon/evening ramble through the trail network in Weeks State Park near Lancaster, centered around...
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