2011 Hiking Log
This year's distance hiked: 299.50 miles (9.08 miles average)
This year's elevation gained: 84195.00 feet (2551.36 feet average)
Dec 04, 2011 : Mt. Jackson and Webster
| Major peaks: | Jackson, Webster |
| Trails: | Webster-Jackson, Webster Cliff, Webster-Jackson |
| Distance: | 6.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2876 feet |
| Major peaks: | Cannon |
| Trails: | Lonesome Lake, Hi-Cannon, Kinsman Ridge, Lonesome Lake |
| Distance: | 5.88 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2518 feet |
| Major peaks: | Owl's Head |
| Trails: | Lincoln Woods, Black Pond, Lincoln Brook, Owl's Head Path, Lincoln Brook, Franconia Brook |
| Distance: | 18.04 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3368 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Scouting trip for winter attempt.
| Major peaks: | Sandwich Dome |
| Trails: | Guinea Pond, Black Mountain Pond, Mary Cary Falls Spur, Algonquin, Bennett Street |
| Distance: | 13.24 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3571 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Oct 08, 2011 : Galehead and South Twin
| Major peaks: | Galehead, South Twin |
| Trails: | Gale River, Garfield Ridge, Frost, Twinway |
| Distance: | 12.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3884 feet |
| People: | Rik |
| Major peaks: | Chocorua |
| Trails: | Liberty, Brook, Bee Line, Bolles |
| Distance: | 8.06 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2675 feet |
| People: | Lon, Rik |
Sep 03, 2011 : Grinnell Glacier
| Trails: | Grinnell Glacier |
| Distance: | 6.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1840 feet |
| People: | Lon, Sarah |
Glacier NP; took the boats on the way in but Lon and I ran the way back to beat the boat
| Trails: | Hidden Lake |
| Distance: | 1.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 568 feet |
| People: | Linda, Lon, Sarah |
Glacier NP
| Trails: | Highline |
| Distance: | 1.68 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 705 feet |
| People: | Linda, Lon, Sarah |
Glacier NP. We wanted to do the whole Highline trail, but it was closed due to rockfall in the middle so we only did a little bit of it. It hailed on us while we waited.
| Trails: | Apikuni Falls |
| Distance: | 1.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 625 feet |
| People: | Linda, Lon, Sarah |
Glacier NP
Aug 28, 2011 - Aug 31, 2011 : Glacier NP Backpack
| Major peaks: | Boulder Peak |
| Trails: | Boulder Pass |
| Distance: | 31.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 5500 feet |
| People: | Linda, Lon |
Glacier NP. We backpacked from Kintla Lake to Waterton Lake. From there we took a boat into Canada where Sarah picked us up. She wasn’t yet sure of her long distance backpacking abilities. We also hiked off trail to the summit of Boulder Peak.
Aug 20, 2011 : 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: | Linda, Lon |
Jul 30, 2011 - Jul 31, 2011 : 13 Falls
| Trails: | Lincoln Woods, Franconia Brook, Lincoln Brook, Franconia Brook, Lincoln Woods |
| Distance: | 19.63 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2765 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Backpack to 13 Falls. Lincoln Brook is very bad. Saw a moose near the height of land.
| Major peaks: | Adams, Madison |
| Trails: | Air Line, Short Line, Randolph Path, Short Line, King Ravine, Great Gully, Lowe's Path, Air Line, Gulfside, Osgood, Watson Path, Pine Link, Air Line Cutoff, Airline |
| Distance: | 10.75 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 5541 feet |
King Ravine is spectacular.
Jul 01, 2011 : Tripyramids Loop
| Major peaks: | North Tripyramid, Middle Tripyramid, South Tripyramid |
| Trails: | Livermore, Greely Ponds, Flume Brook, Old Skidder, Livermore, Scaur Ridge, Pine Bend, Mt. Tripyramid, Livermore |
| Distance: | 13.26 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3823 feet |
| Major peaks: | Monadnock |
| Trails: | Mirror Lake |
| Distance: | 2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 100 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Yosemite NP
| Trails: | Yosemite Falls |
| Distance: | 5.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3234 feet |
Yosemite NP
| Trails: | Arethusa Falls, Bemis Brook, Arethusa Falls, Frankenstein Cliffs |
| Distance: | 5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2055 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
May 29, 2011 : Franconia Ridge Complete
| Major peaks: | North Lafayette, Lafayette, Lincoln, Little Haystack, Liberty, Flume |
| Trails: | Skookumchuck, Garfield Ridge, Franconia Ridge, Osseo |
| Distance: | 15.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 5179 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Started at 2am to see sunrise, but it was cloudy. Very fast. We didn’t see any people until just before the summit of Flume.
May 07, 2011 - May 08, 2011 : Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway
| Trails: | White Dot, White Cross, White Dot, Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway |
| Distance: | 14.8 miles |
| People: | Linda, Lon |
Backpack from Monadnock to Nelson. Very buggy.
| Major peaks: | South Moat, Middle Moat, North Moat |
| Trails: | Moat Mountain |
| Distance: | 10.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4053 feet |
No snow on southern faces. This is a great ridge to hike.
| Major peaks: | Monadnock |
| Trails: | Falling Waters |
| Distance: | 2.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 800 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Snowshoe to Cloudland Falls
Apr 08, 2011 : Complete Wapack
| Major peaks: | Watatic, Pratt, New Ipswich, Barrett, Burton, Holt, Pack Monadnock, North Pack Monadnock |
| Trails: | Wapack |
| Distance: | 21.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4850 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Through hike of the Wapack from south to north. Plenty of snow on northern faces of northernmost peaks.
| Major peaks: | Temple |
| Trails: | Wapack |
| Distance: | 3.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 850 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Mar 26, 2011 : Pack Monadnocks
| Major peaks: | Pack Monadnock, North Pack Monadnock |
| Trails: | Wapack |
| Distance: | 7.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2200 feet |
| People: | Linda, Lon |
Mar 19, 2011 : Mt. Garfield and Galehead
| Major peaks: | Garfield, Galehead |
| Trails: | Garfield, Garfield Ridge, Frost, Garfield Ridge, Gale River |
| Distance: | 15.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4189 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Long snowshoe with the road closings for winter.
| Trails: | Greely Ponds Trail |
| Distance: | 4.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 450 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Showshoe to southern pond.
| Major peaks: | Washington |
| Trails: | Ammonoosuc, Crawford Path |
| Distance: | 7.34 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3528 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Tim turned south to pick up some southern Presidentials for his winter list, while I saw how great the weather was and went for Washington by myself. It was a perfect winter day for a hike. I should have also gone for Monroe, but decided against it.
| Major peaks: | Crawford Connector, Crawford Path, Webster Cliff, Crawford Path, Mitzpah Cutoff |
| Trails: | Pierce |
| Distance: | 7.62 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2938 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Attempted to go for Jackson too, but spruce traps
| Major peaks: | Whiteface |
| Trails: | Blueberry Ledge, Rollins, Dicey's Mill |
| Distance: | 9.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3356 feet |
| People: | Tim |
Deep unbroken trail much of the way. I skipped out on Passaconaway due to spending so much energy getting up the loose Blueberry Ledges. Tim went for it.
| Major peaks: | Cube |
| Trails: | Mount Cube |
| Distance: | 6.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2000 feet |
| People: | Rik |
Having finished two rounds of 4000’ers, I decided I could go hike something not on a list. This is where we ended up. Easy hike, but lots of wind.