If you like to climb 4000 footers in New Hampshire, I recommend you get yourself a copy of The 4000-Footers of the White Mountains. It’s co-authored by Steve Smith, a member of the AMC Four Thousand Footer Committee and co-editor of the …
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Hiking Wildcat Mountain in Autumn
Autumn has arrived in the White Mountains and with it a flurry of hiking before the need to gear up for snow, ice, and winter hiking. Bagging the higher or more remote peaks becomes far more difficult in the winter months due …
Read More »Climbing South Doublehead
It is a mistake to short change the peaks under 4,000 feet in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Many of them are as hard to hike as any high peak and can be just as steep, rough, and dangerous, especially in winter, as …
Read More »New Hampshire 52 with A View
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 …
Read More »The Trailwrights 72
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. …
Read More »Mt Monadnock – Southwest New Hampshire
On Sunday, I finally got to climb Mt Monadnock (3,165) in New Hampshire or Grand Monadnock, as it is also known. This mountain is the second most climbed peak in the world with 125,000 visitors a year, second only to Mt. Fuji …
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