2007 Hiking Log
This year's distance hiked: 170.59 miles (6.56 miles average)
This year's elevation gained: 63798.00 feet (2453.77 feet average)
Dec 15, 2007 : Chocorua
| Major peaks: | Chocorua |
| Trails: | Champney Falls, Brook |
| Distance: | 7.76 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2392 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Dec 02, 2007 : North Pack Monadnock
| Major peaks: | North Pack Monadnock |
| Trails: | Wapack |
| Distance: | 3.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 950 feet |
Nov 11, 2007 : Franconia Ridge Loop
| Major peaks: | Lafayette, Lincoln, Little Haystack |
| Trails: | Old Bridle Path, Greenleaf, Franconia Ridge, Falling Waters |
| Distance: | 8.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4154 feet |
Sep 22, 2007 : Katahdin
| Major peaks: | Pamola, Baxter, Hamlin, Howe |
| Trails: | Helon Taylor, Knife Edge, NW Basin, Howe, Hamlin Ridge, North Basin, Chimney Pond |
| Distance: | 12.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4800 feet |
| People: | Andrew, Lon, Tim |
A great day on Katahdin and hiking the Knife Edge, but unfortunately we spent most of
the day in the clouds.
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Sep 02, 2007 : Franconia Ridge Loop
| Major peaks: | Lafayette, Lincoln, Little Haystack |
| Trails: | Old Bridle Path, Greenleaf, Franconia Ridge, Falling Waters |
| Distance: | 8.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4154 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Aug 25, 2007 : Huntington Ravine
| Major peaks: | Boott Spur |
| Trails: | Tuckerman Ravine, Huntington Ravine, Alpine Garden, Tuckerman Ravine, Lawn Cutoff, Davis Path, Boott Spur, Tuckerman Ravine |
| Distance: | 9.37 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4535 feet |
| People: | Lon |
We skipped the summit and went across to Boott Spur to head down. I ran out of water
somewhere along that trail which made for a pretty miserable time. We just barely
beat a very strong thunderstorm back. It hit just as we were loading up the car at
Pinkham Notch.
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Aug 12, 2007 : Kearsarge
| Major peaks: | Kearsarge |
| Trails: | Lincoln, Rollins |
| Distance: | 0.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 312 feet |
Aug 05, 2007 : Mt. Tecumseh
| Major peaks: | Tecumseh |
| Trails: | Mt. Tecumseh |
| Distance: | 6.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2545 feet |
Jun 16, 2007 - Jun 17, 2007 : Bonds
| Major peaks: | Bondcliff, Bond |
| Trails: | Lincoln Woods, Wilderness, Bondcliff |
| Distance: | 20.64 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4860 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Lon and I set up camp off the west side of the Bondcliff trail after several
crossings of Black Brook, then hiked two of the Bonds. I didn’t have enough
energy to go out and back to West Bond. We had a crappy dinner and beers
that we’d stashed in the river, and then got a very early start the next
morning.
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Jun 10, 2007 : Carters
| Major peaks: | Carter Dome, Hight, South Carter, Middle Carter |
| Trails: | Nineteen Mile Brook, Carter Dome, Carter-Moriah, North Carter, Imp |
| Distance: | 13.52 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4729 feet |
I tried to find the shortcut from the Imp Trail through Camp Dodge back to
Nineteen Mile Brook, but didn’t go far enough down the trail and ended up
just bushwhacking along the stream instead.
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May 21, 2007 : Chocorua
| Major peaks: | Chocorua |
| Trails: | Champney Falls, Champney Falls Loop, Champney Falls, Piper |
| Distance: | 7.76 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2392 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Despite some nervousness negotiating the scrambling at the top and having to
deal with some snow down below, Sarah did very well on this hike. It was
probably a little too long for her to really enjoy, though.
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May 13, 2007 : Sandwich Dome
| Major peaks: | Jennings Peak, Sandwich Dome, Noon Peak |
| Trails: | Drakes Brook, Sandwich Mountain, Jennings Peak Spur, Sandwich Mountain |
| Distance: | 8.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3033 feet |
| People: | Lon |
May 11, 2007 : Watatic
| Major peaks: | Watatic |
| Trails: | Wapack, Midstate |
Apr 22, 2007 : Clay and Washington
| Major peaks: | Clay, Washington |
| Trails: | Jewell, Gulfside, Mt. Clay Loop, Gulfside, Crawford Path |
| Distance: | 11.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4602 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Snowshoes and t-shirts. We sat on top of Mt. Clay and watched people ski into
the Great Gulf.
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Apr 14, 2007 : Cardigan
| Major peaks: | Cardigan |
| Trails: | Holt, Cathedral Forest, Clark, West Ridge, Hurricane Gap, Clark, Vistamont, Holt |
| Distance: | 5.41 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1885 feet |
Apr 08, 2007 : Mt. Jackson
| Major peaks: | Jackson |
| Trails: | Crawford Path, Mitzpah Cutoff, Webster Cliff, Webster-Jackson |
| Distance: | 6.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2661 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Fallback hike after seeing storms on Washington. Still lots and lots of
snow on the ridge.
Mar 31, 2007 : Monadnock
| Major peaks: | Monadnock |
| Trails: | White Dot |
| Distance: | 3.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1876 feet |
| People: | Lon |
First of two hikes this day. Monadnock without stopping.
Mar 31, 2007 : Pack Monadnock
| Major peaks: | Pack Monadnock |
| Trails: | Wapack, Marion Davis |
| Distance: | 2.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 900 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Second of two hikes this day.
Mar 24, 2007 : Kinsmans
| Major peaks: | North Kinsman, South Kinsman |
| Trails: | Lonesome Lake, Fishin' Jimmy, Kinsman Ridge |
| Distance: | 9.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3558 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Our first hike in snowshoes, so we made it a long one. This fell just outside
of calendar winter, though, so I would have to go pick these peaks up again
later for the winter 4k list.
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Feb 25, 2007 : Eisenhower and Pierce
| Major peaks: | Eisenhower, Pierce |
| Trails: | Crawford Path, Mt. Eisenhower Loop, Crawford Path, Webster Cliff, Mitzpah Cutoff |
| Distance: | 9.39 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3675 feet |
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Feb 11, 2007 : Mt. Liberty
| Major peaks: | Liberty |
| Trails: | Whitehouse, Liberty Spring, Franconia Ridge |
| Distance: | 7.86 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3238 feet |
| People: | Tim |
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Jan 27, 2007 : Cannon
| Major peaks: | Cannon |
| Trails: | Lonesome Lake, Hi-Cannon, Kinsman Ridge |
| Distance: | 5.48 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2547 feet |
| People: | Lon |
This was our first official winter hike. Lon’s plastic boots gave him trouble the
entire day. We did not use snowshoes yet (nor did we own them).
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