Mount Avalon, Mount Field, Mount Tom (6/29/2014)

Mt. Avalon
--3,442'--
--1.9 mi from trailhead--

Mt. Field
--4,339'--
--#23--
--1 mi from Avalon--

Mt. Tom
--4,051'--
--#39--
--1.5 mi from Field--
--3 mi to trailhead--

--7.4 mi total--

Trailhead Parking: Free

The trailhead is located at Crawford Depot/AMC Highland Center. The typical route for Field and Tom is going up Mt. Willey. We decided to just do a smaller loop.

The Avalon Trial starts off very easy. 

The river crossing right before you start gaining elevation.

After 1.4 mi you reach the intersection. From this, we continued on Avalon Trail. It was STEEP!

View from Mt. Avalon

Continuing to Mt. Field

Only view on Field. Looking at the Mt. Washington Hotel

It was SOOOOO buggy up at the top. We wanted to have lunch there but decided to eat on the go.

Off to Mt. Tom. 

The summit.

On our way back down to the car we decided to take a small detour to look at a couple cascades at the last 1.4 miles. 

Mount Hale (6/17/2014)

Mt. Hale
--4,054'--
--4.4 mi RT--
--2,290' elevation gain--

Trailhead Parking: $3

There are a couple different ways to get up and down Mt. Hale. Either go to the top and back down the same way or do it in a loop. My friends and I took the Hale Brook Trail. I don't remember how long it took but book time is 4.5 hours.

The trailhead is located 2.5 miles up Zealand Road off of Route 302.

Only view

The summit. Used to be a fire tower?

Little Haystack, Mount Lincoln, Mount Lafayette (6/3/14)

Little Haystack
--4,760'--
--3 mi one way--

Mt. Lincoln
--5,089'--
--.7 mi (from Little Haystack)--
--#7--

Mt. Lafayette
--5,260'--
--.9 mi (from Lincoln OR 3.8 mi from trail head via Old Bridle Path)--
--#6--

Trail head Parking: Free

The Last time we hiked this was in horrible wet weather. 

Last year

This year!!

Walking across the ridge, Jesse, Dave, and Carolyn.

Cannon Mountain with Lonesome Lake to the far left

Heading down from Lafayette

Greenleaf Hut

Heart shaped lake

What we wrote last year! :)

Steep part

Last year

Lapland Rosebay (Rhododendron lapponicum)

And as Always:

Mount Pierce (4/2/2014)

Mt Pierce

--4,311'--

--#27--

--6.2 mi RT--

This was the first 4k of the year for us! It was such a beautiful day out for it. We snowshoed up and (attempted) to slide down on trash bags. It was so much fun! 

We took the famous Crawford Path (trail head beginning in the parking lot at the beginning of Mt. Clinton Rd). 

We wanted to take the Mizpah cut-off to the hut and make a loop, but we got about 20 ft up and had to turn around. There was no trail nor anyway to figure out where the trail went, it just ended.

But at this break in the trail we met a very friendly Gray Jay! 

I fed him some Honey Oat granola

Continuing up Crawford path, it began getting a little bit slushy (more so on the way down). It was better just to bare boot it.

Right outside the treeline! 

Sliding back down

Mount Jackson & Mount Webster (10/19/2013)

Mt. Jackson
--4,052'--
--#38--

Mt. Webster
--3,910'--

Webster-Jackson Trail
--6.3 mi RT--

The trailhead parking is right after Saco Lake on Rt 302. It's free. The trail begins across 302. Elephant Head and Bugle Cliff are short fun stops on the way up. The above picture is from Bugle Cliff. 

The trail is a steady incline to the summit of Mt. Jackson.

My friend Peter!

You will find many of these Gray Jays at the northern end of the presidentials. They are really friendly. Bring come granola with you, they'll eat right off your hand.

The cliffs

We took Webster Cliff trail (1.3 mi) to Mt. Webster.