2021 Hiking Log
This year's distance hiked: 368.80 miles (8.58 miles average)
This year's elevation gained: 92044.00 feet (2140.56 feet average)
Dec 29 : Stinson
| Major peaks: | Stinson |
| Trails: | Stinson Mountain |
| Distance: | 3.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1335 feet |
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Dec 23 : Berlin
| Major peaks: | Berlin |
| Trails: | Berlin Pass, Taconic Crest, Old Berlin Mountain Ski Trail |
| Distance: | 3.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1222 feet |
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Dec 5 : Black Cap
| Major peaks: | Black Cap |
| Trails: | Pudding Pond, Middle Mountain, Black Cap Connector, Peaked Mountain, Black Cap Connector, Black Cap, Cranmore, Ski trails, bushwhack, Black Cap Connector, Artist Falls |
| Distance: | 8.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1885 feet |
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Nov 21 : Crescent
| Major peaks: | Crescent, Randolph |
| Trails: | Carlton Notch, Crescent Ridge, Pasture Path, Notchway, Pasture Path, Grassy Lane, Mount Crescent, Peek Path |
| Distance: | 9.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2347 feet |
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Nov 21 : Fletcher Cascades
| Trails: | Drakes Brook, Fletcher Cascades |
| Distance: | 3.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 791 feet |
Nov 21 : Snows Mountain
| Trails: | Snows Mountain, Greeley Ledges, Elephant Rock, Greeley Ledges, Snows Mountain, View spur, Snows Mountain, Road, Cascade Path, Boulder Path, Cascade Path |
| Distance: | 7.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1867 feet |
Nov 6 : Paugus
| Major peaks: | Paugus |
| Trails: | Cabin, Lawrence, Bushwhack, Old Paugus, Bickford |
| Distance: | 10.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3007 feet |
SOTA S2S day, plus bushwhack to real summit of Paugus. I don’t need to do that again.
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Oct 22 - Oct 24 : Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway
| Major peaks: | Bald Rock, Monadnock, Parker Hill, Pitcher Mountain, Hubbard Hill, Jackson Hill |
| Trails: | Parker, Lost Farm, Cliff Walk, White Arrow, Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway |
| Distance: | 35.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 6452 feet |
| People: | Lon |
We wanted to through hike the entire trail in five days, but cold rain forecast on Tuesday made us decide to
scale back to four days. Then, more cold rain in the forecast for Sunday night and all Monday made us decide
to just stop in Washington after three days. It was below freezing both nights, one night in a shelter and
one at a tent platform.
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Oct 17 : Bearpen
| Major peaks: | Bearpen Mountain, Bearpen Mountain NW |
| Trails: | Roads |
| Distance: | 6.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1506 feet |
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Oct 16 : Mongaup
| Major peaks: | Beech Mountain, Mongaup Mountain |
| Trails: | Flynn, roads, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 8.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1233 feet |
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Oct 10 : Kennebago Divide & White Cap
| Major peaks: | Kennebago Divide, White Cap |
| Trails: | Roads, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 11.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2346 feet |
This hike finishes off the New England Hundred Highest for me. Most of the bushwhacks ended up being a lot more
straightforward than I expected.
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Oct 9 : Boundary
| Major peaks: | Monument 450 Peak, Boundary |
| Trails: | Bushwhack |
| Distance: | 8.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2688 feet |
Hiked the boundary swath along the border, which was pretty weird.
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Oct 1 : Passaconaway
| Major peaks: | Passaconaway, Nanamocomuck, Wonalancet Hedgehog |
| Trails: | Oliverian Brook, Passaconaway Cutoff, Square Ledge, Walden, View spur, Walden, Lawrence, Oliverian Brook, Square Ledge Branch, Oliverian Brook |
| Distance: | 13.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3773 feet |
Big trip to grab a bunch of new trails around Passaconaway.
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Sep 26 : PATN
| Major peaks: | Peak Above the Nubble |
| Trails: | Bushwhack |
| Distance: | 3.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2031 feet |
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Sep 21 : Vose Spur
| Major peaks: | Vose Spur |
| Trails: | Signal Ridge, Carrigain Notch, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 8.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2539 feet |
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Sep 6 : Crawford-Ridgepole
| Major peaks: | Cotton, Livermore |
| Trails: | Cotton Mountain, Crawford-Ridgepole, Old Mountain Road, Old Highway |
| Distance: | 12.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2483 feet |
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Aug 29 : Stratton
| Major peaks: | Stratton |
| Trails: | Unnamed |
| Distance: | 1.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 220 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Hike from the top of the ski lift to the summit of Stratton as part of my Vermont SOTA trip plus state high pointing with Sarah.
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Aug 28 : Mount Mansfield
| Major peaks: | Mansfield |
| Trails: | Long Trail |
| Distance: | 2.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 670 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Hike from the top of the auto road to the summit of Mount Mansfield as part of my Vermont SOTA trip plus state high pointing with Sarah.
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Aug 16 : Snow
| Major peaks: | Snow |
| Trails: | Old roads, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 6.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2089 feet |
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Aug 15 : Elephant
| Major peaks: | Elephant |
| Trails: | Old roads, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 5.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1939 feet |
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Aug 7 : Mendon
| Major peaks: | Mendon |
| Trails: | Old roads, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 8.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2220 feet |
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Jul 28 : Franconia Ridge
| Major peaks: | Little Haystack, Lincoln, Lafayette |
| Trails: | Falling Waters, Franconia Ridge, Old Bridle Path |
| Distance: | 8.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3751 feet |
I’ve wanted to do this hike without all the people for a long time, so I started at 7pm and finished
up just after midnight. I needed a headlamp starting just below the summit of Little Haystack. I
hoped to hike with the mostly full moon, but it didn’t come up until I was well down off the ridge.
I didn’t see any people after the waterfalls.
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Jul 13 : Mount Peale
| Major peaks: | Mount Peale |
| Trails: | Burlfriends, FS road, herd paths |
| Distance: | 6.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2744 feet |
This was a short hike up a very tall mountain. We camped at La Sal Pass the night before
which meant I could hike right from the campsite. I got off route on the way up and had
to slab over to the right chute, which was difficult and dangerous. After that I had no
problems following herd paths and goat paths all the way to the summit and back down. The
scree chute everyone takes is very steep and would be dangerous with more people. This
was the first ultra-prominent mountain I went out of my way to get.
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Jul 8 : Elbert
| Major peaks: | Mount Elbert |
| Trails: | Continental Divide, South Mount Elbert |
| Distance: | 11.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4108 feet |
I was able to drive the truck all the way to the higher 4WD parking lot which made for a much
shorter hike. The trail was very easy and I got an early start which meant no weather problems.
Despite all the acclimatization, I still struggled with the elevation above about 13600’.
This was my first really serious state high point.
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Jul 3 : Lost Lake
| Trails: | Lost Lake |
| Distance: | 2.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 395 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
The lake was scenic, but the trail was crummier than expected. There was a very muddy and boggy
section we had to walk through, and then there were a couple significant ups and downs in both
directions.
Jul 3 : Cottonwood Pass
| Major peaks: | Peak 12560, Peak 12792 |
| Trails: | Continental Divide |
| Distance: | 4.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1227 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Hike from Cottonwood Pass to the closest nearby activatable peak, passing over another peak on the way. Sarah
went to the first peak before turning around and I went out to the farther one.
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Jul 2 : Browns Canyon
| Trails: | Unnamed |
| Distance: | 1.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 200 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Hike along the Arkansas River in Browns Canyon to see a bunch of rapids. We were able to catch
a raft going through the biggest rapids right at our turnaround point.
June 20 : Killington
| Major peaks: | Shrewsbury, Killington |
| Trails: | Shrewsbury Peak, Long Trail |
| Distance: | 11 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3246 feet |
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May 28 : Moosilauke
| Major peaks: | Moosilauke |
| Trails: | Glencliff, Carriage Road, Beaver Brook, Benton, Tunnel Brook |
| Distance: | 13.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3918 feet |
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May 23 : Mount Martha
| Major peaks: | Martha |
| Trails: | Cherry Mountain |
| Distance: | 7.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1360 feet |
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May 9 : Whiteface
| Major peaks: | Whiteface |
| Trails: | Flat Mountain Pond, McCrillis, Rollins, Blueberry Ledge, McCrillis Path |
| Distance: | 11.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3409 feet |
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May 1 : Israel
| Major peaks: | Israel |
| Trails: | Wentworth, Mead, Huinea Pond, Sandwich Notch Road, Bearcamp River |
| Distance: | 8.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2008 feet |
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Apr 24 : Cannon
| Major peaks: | Cannon |
| Trails: | Kinsman Ridge |
| Distance: | 4.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2173 feet |
| People: | Lon |
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Apr 11 : Metacomet-Monadnock
| Major peaks: | Gap Mountain |
| Trails: | Metacomet-Monadnock, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 7.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1509 feet |
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Apr 3 : Metacomet-Monadnock
| Major peaks: | Little Monadnock |
| Trails: | Metacomet-Monadnock |
| Distance: | 13 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2069 feet |
Another long hike on the M-M trail starting at Widow Gage Town Forest and going to the southern access trail for Gap Mountain. The part up until hitting the 4WD road north of Little
Monadnock is fun, but the rest is just a ton more road walking.
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Mar 27 : Metacomet-Monadnock
| Trails: | Metacomet-Monadnock |
| Distance: | 14.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1374 feet |
Long hike on the southernmost piece of the M-M Trail in NH. Lots of road walking, no summits, no snow, no people. Some parts were very muddy. I stopped at a trail junction in the
Widow Gage Town Forest. The part from the parking lot south to the state line was nice, but the rest wasn’t great. I wouldn’t do this hike again.
Mar 20 : Amherst trails
| Trails: | Plumb, P-H, Highland, Harding, Bacon, Ledge, Old Brook Road, Timber, Eagle, Hammond Brook, Hemlock, Bicentennial, Humpty Dumpty, I Scream, Desmaris, Arnold, Lorden, Bicentennial, Pine, Highland, Rocky, Bullwinkle, Plumb |
| Distance: | 13.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1508 feet |
Long, snow-free loop over lots of trails in Amherst. This didn’t go anywhere especially interesting, but it was nice to do such a long hike so close to my house.
Mar 12 : Three Sisters
| Major peaks: | Third Sister, Middle Sister, First Sister |
| Trails: | Carter Ledge, Middle Sister, Piper |
| Distance: | 8.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2940 feet |
I had also intended to climb Chocorua, but postholing in snowshoes got tiring and I decided to
just quit and finish the loop when I got to the Piper Trail. Carter Ledge had not seen much
traffic. On the way down, I also checked out teh Camp Penacook spur.
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Feb 26 : Livermore Road
| Trails: | Livermore Road |
| Distance: | 8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 996 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Ski trip of Livermore Road from the Kanc to Waterville Valley. We had to walk about a mile just north of Livermore
Pass because it was way too steep and sidehilled, but the rest was skiable. The descent was easier than I expected
and tons of fun.
Feb 21 : Smarts
| Major peaks: | Smarts |
| Trails: | Daniel Doan |
| Distance: | 6.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1921 feet |
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Feb 14 : North Pack Monadnock
| Major peaks: | North Pack Monadnock |
| Trails: | Ted's, Cliff, Wapack, Cliff, Ted's |
| Distance: | 6.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1683 feet |
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Jan 30 : Mount Shaw
| Major peaks: | Shaw |
| Trails: | Cold Spring Road, Faraway Conenctor, Faraway Mountain, Oak Ridge Cutoff, High Ridge, Oak Ridge Cutoff, Upper Bridle Path, Faraway Mountain, Lower Bridle Path |
| Distance: | 8.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1838 feet |
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Jan 9 : North Moat
| Major peaks: | North Moat |
| Trails: | State park paths, FR379, Red Ridge, Moat Mountain, state park paths |
| Distance: | 10.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3024 feet |
| People: | Lon |
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