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Loop Hikes

  • North Moat Mtn Red Ridge Loop

    Hiking a North Moat Mountain – Red Ridge Loop

    The North Moat Mountain / Red Ridge Loop is a 10-mile loop hike located just …

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  • Backpacking a Carter Dome Wild River Loop

    Backpacking a Carter Dome Wild River Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Backpacking a Tunnel Brook Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountains 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Oakes Gulf Loop Backpacking Trip Plan

    An Oakes Gulf Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Hiking a Wildcat Loop

    Hiking a Wildcat Loop

  • Hiking a Mt Clay Loop

    Hiking a Mt Clay Loop

  • Backpacking a Firewardens Loop

    The Firewarden’s Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers - A Moriah Loop

    A Moriah Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Hiking a McCrillis Trail Loop

    Hiking a McCrillis Trail Loop

  • Cascades at the top of the Chandler Brook Trail

    Hiking a Chandler Brook Wamsutta Trail Loop on Mt Washington

  • The Kate Sleeper Loop Trip Plan

    The Kate Sleeper Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Zealand Valley Beaver Meadows

    Backpacking a Willey Range Lollipop

  • Red Rock Cliff Loop Great Hikes in the White Mountains

    Red Rock Cliff Loop: Great Hikes in the White Mountains

  • Huntington Ravine Trail Loop

    Great Hikes: A Huntington Ravine Trail Loop

  • Mt Lafayette (5260'), Franconia Ridge Trail

    Backpacking a Pemigewasset Loop

Presidential Traverse

  • Presidential Traverse

    Great Hikes: A Presidential Traverse

    One of the great hikes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire is called a …

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  • Hiking the Presidential Traverse Trail

    Hiking the Presidential Traverse Trail

  • Presidential Traverse Topo

    Time Control Plan for a Presidential Traverse

Free 4000 Footer Guidebook

  • Backpacking a Kilkenny Ridge Traverse

    A Kilkenny Ridge Traverse Trip Plan: Backpacking the 4000 Footers Guidebook

    The Kilkenny Ridge Traverse is a moderate 2-3 day, 27 mile scenic traverse of some …

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  • Backpacking in the White Mountains

    Backpacking in the White Mountains: A Quick and Dirty Guide

  • Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers. The Desolation LoopJPG

    The Desolation Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountains 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Mt Isolation Rocky Branch Ramble

    The Rocky Branch Ramble Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

  • Backpacking the Cannonball Loop

    The Cannonball Loop Trip Plan: Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

White Mountains - Great Hikes

  • Great Hikes in the Whites Moat Mountain Traverse

    Great Hikes in the Whites: Moat Mountain Traverse

    The Moat Mountain Traverse is a classic White Mountains hiking route that can be hiked …

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  • Huntington Ravine Trail Loop

    Great Hikes: A Huntington Ravine Trail Loop

  • Great Hikes: Howker Ridge Watson Path Loop

  • Great Hikes: Mt Washington, the Huntington Ravine Trail, and a Boot Spur Loop

  • Mt Madison from the Howker Ridge:Pine Link Trail

    Great Hikes: Climbing Mt Madison by the Pine Link Trail

  • The views of the Androscogging River Valley from the open ledges of Albany are huge.

    Great Hikes: Albany Mountain Trail

  • Open Ledges on Cold Brook Trail

    Great Hikes: Speckled Mountain via the Cold Brook Trail Ledges

  • Squam Lake from Mt Morgan

    Great Hikes: Mount Morgan and Mount Percival Loop

  • Lisa scrambles up the North Tripyramid Slide

    Great Hikes: Mt Tripyramid Loop w/ the North and South Slides

  • Bushwhacking to Mt Jeffers

    Great Hikes: Bushwhacking Mt Jeffers and the Hogsback Ridge

  • Looking back along the Ice Gulch Path a short ways after beginning the scramble.

    Great Hikes: The Ice Gulch Loop

  • View of Mt Washington from the Speckled Mountain Summit

    Great Hikes: Speckled Mountain and the Blueberry Ridge Trail

  • Philip Werner backpacking down the Moriah Brook trail in the Wild River Wilderness

    Great Hikes: The Moriah Brook Trail in the Wild River Wilderness

New Hampshire Peakbagging Lists

  • The White Mountains 4000 Footer Grid

    The White Mountains 4000 Footer Grid

    The White Mountains 4000 Footer Grid, called The Grid, requires hiking all 48 of the …

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  • NH Triple Crown

    Hiking The New Hampshire Triple Crown

  • The White Mountains 4000 Footer Grid is not Boring

    The White Mountains 4000 Footer Grid Is not Boring

  • 4000 Footer Patch

    Leave No Stragglers: How to Hike the White Mountain 4000 Footers

  • The Terrifying 25

    The Terrifying 25: A List of Challenging White Mountain Trails

  • Mt Lincoln in July

    The Grid, Gridiots and the Gridiocracy

  • Mount Adams from the summit of Mount Madison

    Hiking The RMC 100

  • The Fool Killer Summit

    The New Hampshire 3000 Footers and the NH 200 Highest

  • Sign Above Treeline, White Mountains

    New Hampshire Hundred Highest

4000 Footers

  • Hiking a Franconia Ridge Loop in December

    Hiking a Franconia Ridge Loop in December

    The Franconia Ridge Loop consists of two five thousand footers, Mt Lincoln (5080′) and Mt …

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  • Hiking a Z-Bonds Traverse in December

  • Backpacking the Bonds in November

    Backpacking the Bonds in November

  • Owls Head in October

    Backpacking Owls Head Mountain in October

  • When Does Winter Start in the White Mountains

    When Does Winter Start in the White Mountains?

  • Hiking Eisenhower, Pierce, and Jackson in October

    Hiking Eisenhower, Pierce, and Jackson in October

  • Mt Lafayette and Mt Lincoln in October

    Hiking Mt Lafayette and Mt Lincoln in October

  • White Mountains 4000 Footer Weather Forecasts

    White Mountains 4000 Footer Weather Forecasts

  • Hiking Mt Madison in September

    Hiking Mt Madison in September

  • Hiking Mt Flume in August

    Hiking Mt Flume in August

  • Hiking Mt Lincoln and Mt Lafayette in July

    Hiking Mt Lincoln and Mt Lafayette in July

  • Backpacking Owls Head Mountain in June

    Backpacking Owls Head Mountain in June

  • Hiking Mt Cabot in June

    Hiking Mt Cabot in June

  • Mt Jackson Three Routes

    Mt Jackson – Three Routes

  • Hiking a Monroe Washington Jefferson Loop in May

    Hiking a Monroe, Washington, and Jefferson Loop in May

  • Hiking Mt Monroe and Mt Washington in April

    Hiking Mt Monroe and Mt Washington in April

  • Hiking Eisenhower Pierce and Jackson in April

    Hiking Eisenhower, Pierce, and Jackson in April

  • Hiking Madison and Adams in April

    Hiking Mts Madison and Adams in April

  • Hiking Mt Washington in March

    Hiking Mt Washington in March

  • Presidential Traverse Topo

    Time Control Plan for a Presidential Traverse

  • Hiking a Zbonds Traverse in March

    Hiking a Zealand Bonds (ZBonds) Traverse in March

Backpacking Trips

  • Backpacking a Jumping Brook Loop

    Backpacking a Jumping Brook Loop

    Jumping Brook is a mountain stream that’s pretty close to the geographic center of the …

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  • Backpacking and Fishing the Wild River

    Backpacking and Fishing in the Wild River Wilderness

  • Backpacking South Shoal Pond Peak

    Backpacking South Shoal Pond Peak

  • Backpacking and Fishing the Dry River

    Backpacking and Fly Fishing the Dry River

  • Backpacking Owls Head Mountain in June

    Backpacking Owls Head Mountain in June

  • Backpacking a Willey Range Loop in May

    Backpacking a Willey Range Loop

  • Backpacking a McCrillis Loop with Guthook

    Backpacking a McCrillis Loop with Guthook

  • Backpacking the Bonds in October

    Backpacking the Bonds in October

  • Backpacking Fishing in the Sandwich Range

    Backpacking and Fishing Three Rivers in the Sandwich Range

  • Backpacking a reverse Kate Sleeper Loop

    Backpacking a Reverse Kate Sleeper Loop

  • Backpacking the Fire Warden’s Loop

    Backpacking the Fire Warden’s Loop

  • Backpacking the Bonds

    Backpacking the Bonds

  • Two Ravines and a Gulf Backpacking Trip Report

    Two Ravines and a Gulf Backpack

52 With a View

  • Mt Faraway Robert Loop

    Hiking a Faraway – Roberts Loop in the Ossipee Range

    Mt Faraway and Mt Roberts are two peaks in the Ossipee Range in New Hampshire, …

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  • Black Mountain Pond in Autumn Colors

    Backpacking a Sandwich Dome Loop

  • Mt Lethe

    Climbing The Imp and North Carter Mountain in Winter Conditions

  • Climbing the Weeks Brook Trail to the North Kearsarge Fire Tower

    Hiking a North Kearsarge Firetower Traverse in Snovember

  • The Presidential Range seen from North Sugarloaf

    Climbing North and Middle Sugarloaf in Winter

  • Greens Cliff and the Sandwich Range from Mt Tremont

    Climbing Mt Tremont in January

  • Maggie the Hiker and I admired the big peaks of the Sandwich Range from the Mt Israel ledges

    Hiking to Mt Israel and Guinea Pond

  • North Percy Mountain

    Human Triggered Avalanche on North Percy Peak

  • Sugarloaf Mountain Summit

    Climbing Sugarloaf Mountain in the Nash Stream Forest

Bushwhacks

  • Backpacking South Shoal Pond Peak

    Backpacking South Shoal Pond Peak

    South Shoal Pond Peak, also known as Twintop or Mt Quinn isn’t a popular destination …

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  • Climbing Pliny Mountain

    Climbing Pliny Mountain

  • Climbing the Black Crescent Mountains

    Climbing the Black Crescent Mountains

  • The East Kineo summit canister

    Climbing East Kineo Mountain

  • Climbing the Chocorua Blues

    Climbing the Chocorua Blues

  • Bushwhacking Currier Hill and Ames Mountain

    Bushwhacking Currier Hill and Ames Mountain

  • Bushwhacking Sentinel Mountain and Mt Mist

    Bushwhacking Sentinel Mountain and Mt Mist

  • Bushwhacking Eagle Cliff and Downing Mountain

    Bushwhacking Eagle Cliff and Downing Mountain

  • Towns Mountain and Mt Misery

    Bushwhacking Towns Mountain and Mt Misery

  • Garnet Mountain and Lewis Hill

    Bushwhacking Garnet Mountain and Lewis Hill

  • Bushwhacking the Daltons

    Bushwhacking the Daltons

  • Bushwhacking Sugar and Jericho Mountains

    Bushwhacking Sugar and Jericho Mountains

  • Bushwhacking Mt Cushman

    Bushwhacking Mount Cushman

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FAQS

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    Backpacking Sleep Systems for Tents, Tarps, and Hammocks

    January 20, 2023
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    Wool Baselayers vs Synthetic Baselayers: How to Choose

    January 4, 2023
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    Winter Hiking Gaiters: Benefits and Pitfalls

    December 29, 2022
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    Do You Need Rain Pants for Backpacking?

    December 28, 2022
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    Liquid Fuel – White Gas Stove Guide

    December 26, 2022
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    Ultralight Bivy Sacks 101

    December 23, 2022
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    Hiking and Backpacking Survival Gear

    December 22, 2022
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    Can You Use a High R-Value Sleeping Pad in Summer?

    December 21, 2022
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    Ultralight Backpacking Stove Guide

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Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 Footers Guidebook

Backpacker Favorites

  • Swiss Army Classic Knife
  • Darn Tough Socks (Super Durable)
  • Nylofume UL Pack Liners
  • Polycryo (Tent Footprint) Ground Cloths
  • Leukotape (Sticky Anti-Blister Tape)
  • Jetboil Stash Stove System
  • Hyperlite Packing Pods
  • Smartwater Bottle Upgrade Kit
  • Body Glide
  • Nitecore 10000 mAh USB Power Bank (5.9 oz)
  • Toaks Titanium 550 UL Pot
  • Zpacks Duplex Tent

Philip’s Favorite Gear Picks

  • Zpacks Arc Haul Ultra 60 Pack
  • Altra Lone Peak 6 Trail Runners
  • Hammock Gear Econ Burrow Quilt
  • Sea-to-Summit Etherlite XT Sleeping Pad
  • Feathered Friends Flicker 40 Quilt Sleeping Bag
  • Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter
  • Garmin inReach Mini 2
  • Tilley LTM6 AirFlo Hiking Hat
  • Casio Solar PRW3500 ABC Watch
  • Paria UL Needle Tent Stakes
  • REI Quarter Dome SL 1 Tent
  • Pacerpole Dual Lock Trekking Poles

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