An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Tag: exploring

  • Megalloway

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    Awake before dawn, I was wrapped in my sleeping bag and some extra blankets. I was warm and didn’t want to get moving. The rental I was driving had more than enough space for sleeping with the seats folded. I was literally “car camping”. This far north and being fall, temperatures were too cool for…

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    snowpackjack
    Pink predawn light reflects on a silhouetted mountain in the distance a calm wide lake stretches out in the foreground of the image.

  • Walking on Baby Heads

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    The image above does not do justice to the smooth round rocks that I navigated throughout my multiple river crossings in hiking to the summit of the Tripyramids in New Hampshire. Two of Three Two of the three Tripyramid peaks are must haves when peak bagging the 4000 Footers of New Hampshire. Both North and…

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    A view of the white mountains in New Hampshire from an ascent of one of the Tripyramids. A dark blue mountain range under scattered clouds and a blue sky. the lower half of the picture is framed in fir trees.

  • The 52 With A View

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    In 1979 a group of friends start a hiking group to be known as The Over the Hill Hikers. You can read about the formation and history of the group on their blog page here. In the 90’s, some of the members tired of hiking the New Hampshire 48s. The groups “Den Mother” Lib Bates,…

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    snowpackjack
    a solo hiker looks out over a forested valley towards a range of mountains in the distance. He is standing on a outcropping of ledge that drops off to the valley floor

  • Emergency Beacon Angst

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    In my preparation for hiking some bushwacks in the mountains, I knew I would have to pull the trigger and purchase an emergency beacon. Deciding which one I needed was another story. Hiking in the mountains means spotty cell coverage. For years I had been hiking in the mountains of New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.…

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    snowpackjack
    A hiker standing on a helicopter pad on top of a mountain. his back is to the camera. he is looking at a cell phone communications tower that has been destroyed and is bent and collapsed.