Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips from Mount Monadnock to Mount Magalloway

by Daniel Doan, Ruth Doan MacDougall

Overview

Whether you're after a simple woods walk or a challenging trek up a 4,000-foot peak, the 6th edition of this indispensable hiking guide has it. Sit beside a brook in southern New Hampshire or climb a fire tower in the far north, visit state parks, explore ice caves in King Ravine, pick blueberries, or embark on a backpacking trip--all in the gorgeous Granite State.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581571561
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	07/28/2014
Series:	Explorer's 50 Hikes
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Daniel Doan hiked the White Mountains of New Hampshire for nearly 70 years while writing novels, short stories, a history of the Indian Stream Republic, the memoir Our Last Backpack, and two hiking guides, Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in the White Mountains and Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire. Recipient of the New Hampshire Writers' Project Lifetime Achievement Award, he died in 1993.

Daughter of New England travel expert Daniel Doan, Ruth Doan MacDougall has for years helped keep his hiking guides up to date. A novelist as well, MacDougall received the NHWP's 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Center Sandwich, NH.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 13

Preface to the Sixth Edition 15

Introduction 19

Southern New Hampshire

1 Odiorne Point 31

2 Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge 35

3 Pawtuckaway State Park

The Tower 38

Rainy-Day Hike 42

4 The Uncanoonucs

North Mountain 46

South Mountain 49

5 Bald Mountain 52

6 Crotched Mountain 55

7 Barrett Mountain 53

8 Pack Monadnock Mountain 64

9 Pisgah State Park 69

10 Mount Monadnock 74

Central New Hampshire

11 Oak Hill 80

12 Blue Job Mountain 84

13 Fox Research and Demonstration Forest 87

14 Lovewell Mountain 92

15 Mount Kearsarge 96

16 Mount Cube 100

17 Red Hill 104

18 Mount Roberts 108

19 Mounts Morgan and Percival 112

20 Lake Solitude/Mount Sunapee 118

The White Mountains

21 Elephant Head 120

22 Mount Willard 124

23 The Sugarloaves 127

24 Arethusa Falls/Frankenstein Cliff 131

25 Welch and Dickey Mountains 136

26 Mount Doublehead 141

27 Black Mountain 145

28 Mount Tecumseh 149

29 Mount Israel 150

30 Cherry Mountain 157

31 Carter Notch 161

32 Nancy and Norcross Ponds 165

33 Webster Cliff/Mount Webster 170

34 Imp Profile/Middle Carter Mountain 174

35 Mount Tremont 179

36 Mount Paugus 183

37 Mount Osceola: East Peak 187

38 North Moat Mountain 192

39 King Ravine 197

40 North Twin Mountain 202

41 Mount Moriah 206

42 Champney Falls/Mount Chocorua 211

43 South Twin Mountain 217

44 The Presidentials: Southern Peaks 221

The Far North

45 Mount Magalloway 223

Backpacking Hikes

46 Gordon Pond 234

47 Smarts Mountain 238

48 Cheney Brook 244

49 The Kilkenny 250

50 Wild River 255