Backpacking Trips
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Thirteen Falls Backpacking Loop Attempt
Late autumn/early winter conditions are notoriously tricky to forecast in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and you need to be willing…
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Backpacking a Hancock Notch Lollipop
When people visit the White Mountains, the two geographic features they remember the most are the mountains and the notches,…
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Backpacking a Shoal Pond Lollipop
As I stood there on the shore of Shoal Pond, I realized I couldn’t hear a thing. No motorcycles in…
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Backpacking an Owl’s Head Loop
Owl’s Head Mountain is one of the most remote 4000-footers in the White Mountains, deep in the heart of the…
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Backpacking Mt Isolation and the Davis Path
Mt Isolation is one of the more remote White Mountain 4000 footers, requiring a fairly long hike in from the…
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Hiking King Ravine and Castle Ravine
King Ravine and Castle Ravine are two glacial cirques on the north side of the White Mountain’s Presidential Range. Cirques…
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Backpacking the Oakes Gulf Headwall
Oakes Gulf is the least known of Mt Washington’s great ravines and the most remote. You get to it by…
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Backpacking the Livermore Loop
My boots hadn’t frozen overnight, which meant that my Sawyer water filter was probably still good (they’re wrecked if frozen.)…
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Backpacking in the Wild River Wilderness
There’s nothing like a backpacking trip to shed your worries and restore lost serenity. A night spent in moonlight under the…
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Backpacking Goose Eye Mountain and the Wright Trail
Goose Eye Mountain is located about five miles south of famed Mahoosuc Notch, the hardest mile on the Appalachian Trail. The…
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Backpacking Old Speck Mtn and the West Grafton Loop
Grafton Notch is a magnificent mountain pass in Southwestern Maine, a short drive from Gorham, NH, the last major trail…
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Backpacking to Unknown Pond
The town of Berlin, pronounced “BURR-ln”, with the accent on the first syllable, has the feeling of a modern frontier…
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Backpacking to Flat Mountain Pond
“I can’t imagine any fisherman hiking five miles to fish here,” said the fisherman I met at Flat Mountain Pond…
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Packrafting the Upper and Lower Greeley Ponds
Upper and Lower Greeley Pond are two backcountry ponds in Mad River Notch, a mountain pass that links the Sandwich…
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