An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Tag: mountains

  • Carters at Dawn

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    Steam Fog along Nineteen Mile Brook Trail, New Hampshire, USA Rising early, we carried light packs and wore trail runners. It would be a very long hike traversing the Carter range. The pond along the trail at the base of the mountains is warm in August, but the cool mountain air descending into the valley…

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    snowpackjack
    fog rises above a mountain lake at dawn. Dead trees stand in the lake, surrounded by live firs. green shrubs are in the foreground.

  • Black Dome

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    After three weekends of rain, Jack had given up on waiting for the sun. He repacked his winter pack, removing the snow goggles, hat and gloves. He tossed in a bug net and some bug spray. Jack took the pack out to the car with a sturdy pair of three season boots as well as…

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    snowpackjack
    a mountain covered in brown trees is center in the frame. green fir trees frame the mountain on both sides of the picture. A blue sky with a few scattered clouds are over the peak.

  • Reaching For 100

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    The New England Hundred Highest List is a collection of mountains in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. The list is administered by the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 4000 Footers Club. Hiking the NEHH was already on my mind during the final months of completion of the New England 67. I was already almost 70 peaks in.…

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    snowpackjack
    A fallen tree sits beside a calm lake, ringed by green forested mountains

  • Killington in Winter

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    A hiker was tightening the laces of his boots. He was in his thirties I guessed, and looked a bit new to hiking. We were parked close together at the trailhead. He was headed up to the summit of Mount Killington. I was on the way out. We chatted a bit. It was late August…

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