2024 Hiking Log
This year's distance hiked: 275.33 miles (6.88 miles average)
This year's elevation gained: 68432.00 feet (1710.80 feet average)
Oct 12 : Mount Shaw
| Major peaks: | Mount Shaw |
| Trails: | Lower Bridle Path, Faraway Mountain, Upper Bridle Path, Oak Ridge Cutoff, High Ridge, Oak Ridge Cutoff, Faraway Mountain, Turtleback Mountain |
| Distance: | 9.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1981 feet |
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Sep 26 : Mount Eddy
| Major peaks: | Mount Eddy |
| Trails: | Pacific Crest Trail, Deadfall Lakes, Mount Eddy |
| Distance: | 11.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2312 feet |
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Sep 25 : McDonald Peak
| Major peaks: | McDonald Peak |
| Trails: | Split Rock |
| Distance: | 1.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 349 feet |
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Sep 24 : Marys Peak
| Major peaks: | Marys Peak |
| Trails: | Road, Summit Loop, East Ridge |
| Distance: | 1.45 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 364 feet |
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Sep 22 : South Sister
| Major peaks: | South Sister |
| Trails: | South Sister |
| Distance: | 12.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4974 feet |
| People: | Lon |
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Sep 9 : North Baldface
| Major peaks: | North Baldfce, Mount Meader |
| Trails: | Baldface Circle, Bicknell Ridge, Baldface Circle, Meader Ridge, Mount Meader |
| Distance: | 12.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3678 feet |
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Aug 31 : Carr
| Major peaks: | Smarts |
| Trails: | Three Ponds, Carr Mountain |
| Distance: | 6.27 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2356 feet |
It wasn’t supposed to rain until later in the day, but instead ended up raining the entire way down.
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Aug 11 : Smarts
| Major peaks: | Smarts |
| Trails: | Ranger, Lambert Ridge |
| Distance: | 7.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2322 feet |
The Ranger Trail now puts me at 75% redlining in the Whites.
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Jul 28 : Field
| Major peaks: | Field |
| Trails: | Zealand, A-Z, Willey Range |
| Distance: | 11.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2623 feet |
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Jul 21 : Lafayette
| Major peaks: | Squam, Percival, Morgan |
| Trails: | Eastman Brook, Doublehead, Crawford-Ridgepole, Mount Morgan, Morse |
| Distance: | 9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2203 feet |
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Jul 14 : Mount Rogers
| Major peaks: | Mount Rogers |
| Trails: | Rododendron, Horse, Appalachian Trail, Mount Rogers Spur, Appalachian Trail, Unnamed, Virginia Highlands Horse Trail, Horse, Rhododendron |
| Distance: | 9.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1621 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Longer than expected hike to Mt. Rogers for Sarah’s 23rd state high point.
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Jul 7 : Lafayette
| Major peaks: | Lafayette |
| Trails: | Skookumchuck, Garfield Ridge |
| Distance: | 9.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 3582 feet |
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Jun 30 : The Pulpit
| Trails: | Joppa Hill Farms Loop, Pulpit Brook, Tufts, Ravine, Pulpit Brook, Joppa Hills Farm Loop |
| Distance: | 6.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 661 feet |
Very hot, humid, and buggy hike through conservation land in Bedford.
Jun 22 : Plymouth
| Major peaks: | Plymouth |
| Trails: | Sutherland |
| Distance: | 4.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1383 feet |
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May 24 - May 25 : Glastenbury
| Major peaks: | Little Pond, Glastenbury, Bald Mountain |
| Trails: | Long Trail, West Ridge |
| Distance: | 22.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 4730 feet |
Quick overnight loop on Glastenbury. It was very buggy, I didn’t sleep well, and I appear to have given myself tendonitis, but it was still fun. This is the first backpacking trip in two years.
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May 20 : Huntersfield
| Major peaks: | Huntersfield |
| Trails: | Unnamed |
| Distance: | 2.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 646 feet |
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May 19 : Windham High Peak
| Major peaks: | Windham High Peak |
| Trails: | Elm Ridge, Cranberry Bog, Mid Mountain, Long Path, Elm Ridge, Cranberry Bog, Elm Ridge |
| Distance: | 7.7 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1573 feet |
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May 18 : Black Dome & Blackhead
| Major peaks: | Black Dome, Blackhead |
| Trails: | Black Dome Range, Blackhead, Long Path, Batavia Kill |
| Distance: | 6.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2313 feet |
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May 11 : Three Ponds Loop
| Trails: | Three Ponds, Donkey Hill Cutoff, Mount Kineo, road, Hubbard Brook |
| Distance: | 14.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2741 feet |
A very wet and boggy hike to pick up a bunch of new trails without summiting anything
May 8 : Uncanoonuc
| Major peaks: | Uncanoonuc |
| Trails: | Blue, White, Orange, Unnamed, Blue |
| Distance: | 3.03 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1205 feet |
Apr 28 : Blue Mountain
| Major peaks: | Blue Mountain |
| Trails: | Appalachian Trail, Road |
| Distance: | 6.5 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 919 feet |
Last PA county high point named Blue Mountain, this one for Northampton County.
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Apr 27 : Blue Mountain
| Major peaks: | Blue Mountain |
| Trails: | Appalachian Trail, Bushwhack |
| Distance: | 6.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 590 feet |
The scramble to the top of this one made me nervous given all the signs at the campground about rattlesnakes.
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Apr 27 : Blue Mountain
| Major peaks: | Blue Mountain |
| Trails: | Unnamed, Appalachian Trail, Caleb Frantz Memorial |
| Distance: | 5.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 524 feet |
First PA county high point on Blue Mountain.
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Apr 26 : Kittatinny
| Major peaks: | Kittatinny |
| Trails: | Garvey Springs, Appalachian Trail, Buckwood, Sunfish Pond Fire Road, Yards Creek Road, bushwhack, Buckwood, Appalachian Trail, Garvey Springs |
| Distance: | 6.9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1530 feet |
This hike started out nice, but the county high point candidates were dense bushwhacks and the part by the reservoir was weird.
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Apr 26 : Jackie Jones Mountain
| Major peaks: | Jackie Jones |
| Trails: | Suffern, Road |
| Distance: | 2.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 384 feet |
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Apr 24 : Uncanoonuc
| Major peaks: | Uncanoonuc |
| Trails: | Blue, White, Orange, Unnamed, Blue |
| Distance: | 3.03 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1205 feet |
Apr 16 : Uncanoonuc
| Major peaks: | Uncanoonuc |
| Trails: | Blue, White, Orange, Unnamed, Blue |
| Distance: | 3.03 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1205 feet |
First of hopefully weekly Uncanoonuc training laps.
Apr 5 : Guadalupe
| Major peaks: | Guadalupe Peak |
| Trails: | Guadalupe Peak |
| Distance: | 9.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2987 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
My 25th state high point and Sarah’s 21st. She did great on this big, dry, windy hike.
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Mar 30 : Pawtuckaway
| Major peaks: | North Pawtuckaway, South Pawtuckaway |
| Trails: | North Mountain, Boulder, South Ridge, Mountain, Round Pond, North Mountain |
| Distance: | 9 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1626 feet |
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Mar 24 : PMEC
| Trails: | Bicentennial, Hemlock |
| Distance: | 1.62 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 297 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Training hike for Guadalupe Peak
Mar 16 : PMEC
| Trails: | Plumb, P-H, Highland, Harding, Highland, Bacon, Old Brook Road, Highland, Plumb |
| Distance: | 5.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 632 feet |
| People: | Sarah |
Training hike for Guadalupe Peak
Mar 9 : Wachusett
| Major peaks: | Wachusett |
| Trails: | Midstate, Harrington, Midstate |
| Distance: | 5.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 985 feet |
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Mar 8 : Pats Peak
| Major peaks: | Pats Peak |
| Trails: | Road, unnamed trails |
| Distance: | 2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 400 feet |
| People: | Dale |
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Mar 3 : Kearsarge
| Major peaks: | Kearsarge |
| Trails: | Barlow |
| Distance: | 5.1 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1516 feet |
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Feb 25 : Monadnock
| Major peaks: | Monadnock |
| Trails: | Pumpelley |
| Distance: | 8.6 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2005 feet |
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Feb 11 : Sunapee
| Trails: | Newbury |
| Distance: | 5.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1544 feet |
A later than expected start meant I wasn’t able to go all the way to Sunapee before darkness and hunger became problems. I turned around at Lake Solitude, so at least I got the SRKG
section I wanted done.
Feb 4 : Monadnock
| Major peaks: | Monadnock |
| Trails: | Old Halfway House, White Arrow, Metacomet-Monadnock |
| Distance: | 5.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1841 feet |
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Jan 14 : Belknaps
| Major peaks: | Piper, Belknap, Gunstock |
| Trails: | Piper Mountain, Old Piper, White, Blue, Saddle, Brook, Gunstock Mountain |
| Distance: | 5.4 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 1839 feet |
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Jan 6 : Kearsarge North
| Major peaks: | Kearsarge North |
| Trails: | Kearsarge North |
| Distance: | 6.3 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 2535 feet |
| People: | Lon |
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Jan 1 : Horse Hill
| Major peaks: | Horse Hill |
| Trails: | The loop |
| Distance: | 4.2 miles |
| Elevation gain: | 251 feet |