New Hampshire Peakbagging Lists

Once you finish hiking the White Mountain 4000 footers, what list can you tackle next? While there are a lot of peakbagging lists across the White Mountains and New England to choose from, one of the hardest is Redlining the AMC White Mountain Guide. The goal of redlining is to …

The Terrifying 25 is a popular list of difficult White Mountains Hiking Trails compiled by Trish Herr, the author of Up! A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure, for her young daughters Alex and Sage. They enjoy hiking through boulder caves, rocky scrambles, and traversing avalanche slides, which are well represented by …

The Randolph Mountain Club (RMC) manages about 100 miles of trails in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, including the major routes to the Northern Presidentials, trails connecting the club’s four camps, scenic paths on the lower slopes, and trails in the Crescent Range near the towns of Jefferson and …

Experienced hikers will tell you that no two hikes up the same mountain are ever the same. Which probably explains why some hikers are willing to climb the same mountains month after month, throughout the year, to experience the variety of weather conditions and seasonal changes that affect each climb. …

Hiking the New Hampshire 3,000 footers is a quite challenging peakbagging list and there is a very small but tight-knit community of hikers who have completed or are working on it. It also requires a lot of off-trail navigation (bushwhacking) which is something I enjoy. If you are working on the …

My friend Joe has this saying, “Leave No Stragglers”, which is his mantra for hiking the White Mountain 4000 footers in a time and energy efficient way. He’s working on his second 4000 footer Grid (see The Grid, Gridiots, and the Gridiocracy), where you hike all 48 of the four …

The New Hampshire Hundred Highest list includes the 48 White Mountain 4000 footers, a few lesser scenic peak, and  34 additional bushwhacks. The bushwhacks make this a hard list to complete. It’s similar to the New England Hundred Highest, but much more difficult because many of the mountains are less visited. …

The Winter White Mountain 4000 footers are a lot tougher to climb than the White Mountain 4000 footers in any season. All of the hikes on this list must be started and completed within Winter. From 1931 – 2019, 843 people have completed the Winter 4000 list in comparison to …

The New Hampshire 52 with a View list is maintained by the Over the Hill Hikers group. The peaks listed are quite spread out from east to west and north to south, providing you ample reasons to take far flung road trips when you need a break from the grind. While they …

If you found hiking the White Mountain 4000 footer peakbagging list easy, try hiking the TrailWrights 72, which is a lot harder. The chief difference between the lists is that you can only count one peak per day on the Trailwrights list. On the White Mountain 4000 footer list, you …

The White Mountain 4000 footer list is maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club. It was introduced in 1957 to get climbers to hike some of the more remote peaks in the range and to help disperse the wear and tear being inflicted on Mount Washington and a few other very …