Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in the White Mountains: Hikes and Backpacking Trips in the High Peaks Region of New Hampshire

by Daniel Doan, Ruth Doan MacDougall

Overview

Lace up your boots, grab this guide, and explore the great outdoors!

The original 50 Hikes guide is new again, covering northern New England’s most legendary range, the crown jewel of Northeast hiking. The splendor of the White Mountains will inspire you Notch, Crawford Notch, and Pinkham Notch regions, as well as picturesque hikes off the Kancamagus Highway and to the peaks of the Presidential Range.

Writer Daniel Doan hiked the White Mountains for nearly 70 years and wrote two hiking guides to NH’s trails, among many other books. A recipient of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project Lifetime Achievement Award, he died in 1993. His daughter, Ruth Doan MacDougall, has updated his hiking guides ever since. A novelist, she has also received the NHWP Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581571554
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	06/17/2013
Series:	Explorer's 50 Hikes
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	437,255
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(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

Preface to the Seventh Edition 15

Introduction 17

Introductory Hikes

1 Sabbaday Falls 28

2 West Rattlesnake Mountain 30

3 Boulder Loop 33

4 Kedron Flume 35

5 Three Ponds-Brown Brook Loop 38

6 East Pond 42

7 Greeley Ponds 45

8 Old Mast Road and Kelley Trail 49

9 Belknap Mountain 53

10 Mount Katherine 56

11 Mount Major 59

12 Hedgehog Mountain 62

13 Stinson Mountain 64

14 Mount Cardigan 67

15 Smarts Mountain 71

Franconia Notch Region

16 Artist's Bluff and Bald Mountain 76

17 Mount Pemigewasset 79

18 Basin-Cascades Trail 83

19 Lonesome Lake 87

20 Mount Flume 90

21 Mount Liberty 93

22 Mount Lincoln 97

23 Mount Lafayette 101

24 North Lafayette 105

25 Cannon Mountain 108

26 Kinsman Mountain 112

27 Mount Moosilauke 116

28 Mount Garfield 120

29 Mount Osceola 123

30 Mount Tripyramid 126

31 Between the Notches: Zeacliff 130

Mount Washington Region

32 Pinkham Notch: The Crew-Cut Trail 136

33 Low's Bald Spot 139

34 Glen Boulder 142

35 Tuckerman Ravine 145

36 Mount Washington 149

37 The Alpine Garden 154

38 Mount Jefferson 158

39 Mount Adams 161

40 Mount Madison 164

41 Mount Kearsarge North 169

42 Tom-Field-Avalon Loop 172

43 Mount Starr King/Mount Waumbek 176

44 Mount Eisenhower 180

45 Mount Crawford 184

Backpacking Hikes

46 Mount Hancock 188

47 Sandwich Mountain 192

48 East Branch Region/Mount Carrigain 197

49 Mount Isolation 206

50 The Mahoosuc Range 211