An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

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  • Over The River

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    The Little River, Twin Mountain New Hampshire USA. 2018 “Over river, and through the woods.” Rather than head to Grandfather’s house as Lydia Maria Child’s tune would suggest, I parked in the gravel turnout. Crossing the plank bridge, I set out along the North Twin trail, to hike it’s namesake on the other side. It’s…

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    a mountain stream is in the center of the image. Conifers border the river on both sides, with a blue sky and scattered clouds above

  • The Lemon Bar

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    Fireworks crackled somewhere near us. It was close to the 4th of July. It’s my least favorite holiday, with all the noise and chaos it brings. “Some idiot’s going to blow a finger off” I thought. “They might say it’s the land of the free and home of the brave, but there’s no mention of…

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  • Peak Above the Nubble

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    This short bushwack in New Hampshire was one of my first trailless hikes for the Hundred Highest list. Having finished most of the blazed and trailed peaks on the list, I had picked most of the “low hanging fruit.” It was time to begin knocking off the hikes that required more care and research. The…

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    Hiker with packpack on a snow covered hiking trail

  • 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.