2022 Hiking Log
This year's distance hiked: 361.13 miles (7.22 miles average)
This year's elevation gained: 87647.00 feet (1752.94 feet average)
Dec 27 : Abraham
| Major peaks: | Mount Abraham |
| Trails: | Brattell, Long Trail |
| Distance: | 5.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2471 feet |
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Dec 18 : North Pack
| Major peaks: | North Pack Monadnock |
| Trails: | Wapack |
| Distance: | 3.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 917 feet |
Very deep unbroken snow and a late start prevented me from going farther on this hike.
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Dec 11 : Liberty
| Major peaks: | Liberty |
| Trails: | Pemi, Liberty Springs, Franconia Ridge |
| Distance: | 8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3210 feet |
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Nov 26 : Velvet Rocks
| Major peaks: | Velvet Rocks |
| Trails: | East Wheelock Spur, Velvet Rocks Shelter Loop, Appalachian Trail, Velvet Rocks Shelter Loop, Ledyard Link |
| Distance: | 2.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 454 feet |
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Nov 26 : Velvet Rocks
| Major peaks: | Velvet Rocks Hill |
| Trails: | Trescott Spur, Appalachian Trail, Oli's, Silent Brook, Greensboro Highlands, Appalachian Trail, Trescott Spur |
| Distance: | 3.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1009 feet |
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Nov 24 : Waterville Valley
| Trails: | Livermore Road, Old Skidder Road, Irene's Path, Livermore Road |
| Distance: | 8.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1574 feet |
Oct 23 : North Glastenbury
| Major peaks: | North Glastenbury |
| Trails: | Long Trail, bushwhack, Long Trail, roads |
| Distance: | 11.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2093 feet |
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Oct 15 : Mount Carmel
| Major peaks: | Mount Carmel, North Pond Peak |
| Trails: | New Boston, Long Trail, Unnamed, Long Trail, bushwhack, Long Trail |
| Distance: | 9.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2470 feet |
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Oct 9 : Farr Peak
| Major peaks: | Farr Peak |
| Trails: | Long Trail, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 8.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1400 feet |
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Oct 1 : Nebo
| Major peaks: | Nebo |
| Trails: | North Peak, North Nebo |
| Distance: | 9.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3549 feet |
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Sep 28 : North Schell
| Major peaks: | North Schell Peak |
| Trails: | Old road, bushwhack |
| Distance: | 7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3085 feet |
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Sep 26 : Deseret
| Major peaks: | Deseret |
| Trails: | Mill Fork Canyon, Stansbury Crest |
| Distance: | 8.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3623 feet |
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Sep 25 : Bald Mountain
| Major peaks: | Bald Mountain |
| Trails: | Bald Mountain |
| Distance: | 3.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1140 feet |
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Sep 24 : Murdock Mountain
| Major peaks: | Murdock Mountain |
| Trails: | bushwhack |
| Distance: | 2.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 523 feet |
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Sep 18 : Pondicherry
| Trails: | Pondicherry Rail Trail, Spur, Shore Path, Rampart Path, Little Cherry Pond, Pondicherry Rail Trail |
| Distance: | 6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 381 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Aug 27 : Mount Crescent
| Major peaks: | Crescent, Randolph |
| Trails: | Four Soldiers Path, Underhill Path, Crescent Ridge, Four Soldiers Path |
| Distance: | 9.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2237 feet |
| People: | Dad |
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Jul 7 : Mount Marcy
| Major peaks: | Mount Marcy |
| Trails: | Van Hoevenberg |
| Distance: | 15.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3519 feet |
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Jul 3 : Kearsarge North
| Major peaks: | Kearsarge North |
| Trails: | Weeks Brook |
| Distance: | 10.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2711 feet |
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Jun 23 : Thorbjornsfell
| Major peaks: | Thorbjornsfell |
| Distance: | 3.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 722 feet |
Another attempt at a SOTA activation, but even higher winds prevented me from trying.
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Jun 23 : Lava field
| Distance: | 2.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 439 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Hike to the edge of the Fagradalsfjall lava field from the 2021 eruption. Unfortunately it wasn’t still erupting.
Jun 22 : Kerid
| Major peaks: | Kerid |
| Distance: | 1.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 183 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Another hike up, down, and around a little volcanic cone.
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Jun 22 : Geysir
| Distance: | 1.13 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 245 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Jun 21 : Hatta
| Major peaks: | Hatta |
| Distance: | 4.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1490 feet |
I tried to activate this for SOTA, but there was too much wind and rain so I just did it as a hike instead. Still fun.
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Jun 20 : Svartifoss
| Distance: | 2.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 539 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Jun 20 : Vatnajokull
| Distance: | 3.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 187 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Hike to get right next to a glacier.
Jun 20 : Jokulsarlon
| Distance: | 1.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 60 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Walk along the beach to look at the icebergs.
Jun 19 : Hengifoss
| Distance: | 2.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 660 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
We didn’t really plan to hike to this waterfall, but kind of just kept going until it turned into a real hike.
Jun 19 : Dettifoss & Selfoss
| Distance: | 1.92 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 150 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Very windy hike through some rocky terrain to two enormous waterfalls.
Jun 18 : Godafoss
| Distance: | 1.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 100 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Jun 17 : Grabrok
| Major peaks: | Grabrok |
| Distance: | 0.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 263 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Somewhat windy hike up and around a cinder cone.
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Jun 5 : Martha
| Major peaks: | Martha, Owlshead |
| Trails: | Owl's Head, Martha's Mile, Owl's Head, Slide Brook |
| Distance: | 7.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2668 feet |
Second day of the SOTA campout. I thought the Slide Brook Trail was on the redlining spreadsheet,
but turns out it’s not. So that was just bonus hiking.
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Jun 4 : Tremont
| Major peaks: | Tremont, Owls Cliff |
| Trails: | Rob Brook Road, Brunel, Owls Cliff Spur, Brunel, Rob Brook Road |
| Distance: | 10.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2879 feet |
First day of the SOTA campout.
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May 29 : Deer Hill
| Major peaks: | Little Deer Hill, Deer Hill |
| Trails: | Deer Hills, Deer Hills Spring, Deer Hills, Deer Hills Bypass, Ledges, Deer Hills, Leach Link, Deer Hills, Baldface Circle, Chandler Gorge, Baldface Circle, Deer Hills, Deer Hills Bypass, Frost, Deer Hills |
| Distance: | 12.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2870 feet |
Having bought bug spray, I went back and redlined all the trails on Deer Hills just east of Evans Notch, plus a trail off the Baldface Circle.
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May 29 : Great Brook Trail
| Trails: | Great Brook |
| Distance: | 3.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 340 feet |
I intended to hike all the way to Speckled Mountain, but I forgot my bug spray and the bugs
were awful so I just turned around and found something else to do.
May 20 - May 21 : Stairs Mountain
| Major peaks: | Stanton, Pickering, The Crippies, Langdon, Parker, Resolution, Stairs |
| Trails: | Road, Mount Stanton, Mount Langdon, Mount Parker, Davis Path, Stairs Mountain Spur, Davis Path, Stairs Col, Rocky Branch |
| Distance: | 21.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 5384 feet |
Quick overnight trip between storms on Thursday and very hot temperatures on Friday afternoon. The humidity was high
the entire time, which made it kind of an unpleasant trip. This was my first night out completely alone - there was
no one else at the shelter.
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May 14 : Sandwich Dome
| Major peaks: | Sandwich Dome |
| Trails: | Flat Mountain Pond, Guinea Pond, Black Mountain Pond, Algonquin, Bennett Street, Flat Mountain Pond, Gleason, Bennett Street |
| Distance: | 13.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3261 feet |
Very hot, very humid, very buggy, unpleasant hike. Radio was also disappointing and I just made it off the summit before it started thundering.
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May 9 : Bears Head
| Major peaks: | Bears Head |
| Trails: | Road |
| Distance: | 1.58 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 200 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
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May 8 : Backbone
| Major peaks: | Backbone |
| Trails: | Unnamed |
| Distance: | 2.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 657 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Quick hike up to the highest point of Maryland.
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May 1 : Smarts
| Major peaks: | Smarts |
| Trails: | J Trail |
| Distance: | 8.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1956 feet |
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Apr 23 : Kearsarge
| Major peaks: | Kearsarge |
| Trails: | Lincoln, Rollins, Lincoln |
| Distance: | 9.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2203 feet |
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Apr 14 - Apr 17 : Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway
| Major peaks: | Monadnock, Parker Hill, Pitcher Mountain, Hubbard Hill, Jackson Hill, Oak Hill, Lovewell Mountain, Kittredge Hill, Sunapee |
| Trails: | Marlboro, Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway, Summit |
| Distance: | 55.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 10710 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Finally, a north bound through hike of the MSG. Weather varied from warm and sunny to freezing temps, high
winds, and ice and snow. We again planned on doing five days, but the predicted low for our last night at
Steve Galpin would have been in the low 20s which we were not prepared for. So we just hiked from Washington
in one long day.
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Apr 10 : Chocorua
| Major peaks: | Chocorua |
| Trails: | Liberty, Piper |
| Distance: | 8.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2675 feet |
This was a quick hike up mainly to grab the Jim Liberty Cabin spring spur. The trail
was very muddy down low and icy at times in the middle. I got a fair amount of snow and
ice pellets as well.
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Apr 3 : Bog Mountain
| Major peaks: | Bog Mountain |
| Trails: | Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway |
| Distance: | 2.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 531 feet |
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Apr 4 : Ragged
| Major peaks: | Ragged |
| Trails: | Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway, Balanced Rock, Bulkhead, Cabin, Phelps, Red Oak, Johnson Road, Dave's |
| Distance: | 6.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1703 feet |
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Mar 26 : Pleasant Mountain
| Major peaks: | Pleasant Mountain |
| Trails: | Southwest Ridge, Ledges, Bald Peak, North Ridge |
| Distance: | 9.8 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2720 feet |
Out & back hike across all of Pleasant Mountain to the Cumberland County
high point. South facing trails were bare or muddy, while there was some
snow along the ridge. There was never enough for snowshoes and I only wore
spikes for about two minutes.
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Mar 20 : Amherst
| Trails: | Plumb, Bullwinkle, Highland, Pine, Bicentennial, Hemlock, Hammond Brook, Eagle, Timber, Ledge, Highland, P-H, Plumb |
| Distance: | 7.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 931 feet |
Mar 13 : Rose
| Major peaks: | The Pinnacle, Lyndeborough, Rose |
| Trails: | Unnamed trail, snowmobile paths |
| Distance: | 5.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 757 feet |
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Feb 20 : Mount Shaw
| Major peaks: | Shaw |
| Trails: | Mount Shaw, Black Snout, High Ridge |
| Distance: | 6.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2252 feet |
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Jan 30 : Temple
| Major peaks: | Temple |
| Trails: | Beebe, Wapack |
| Distance: | 4.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 759 feet |
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Jan 11 : South Uncanoonuc
| Major peaks: | South Uncanoonuc |
| Trails: | Link, Summt, Mountain, KenLaw, Link |
| Distance: | 3.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 787 feet |
| People: | Lon |
Very cold after work hike.
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