Written on August 16, 2014
Boundary Peak, as it is called, is probably the most bizarre hike on the entire 100 Highest List. Getting there is quite the trip and the preferred method of hiking it is using a combination of ATV trails and walking on the actual international boundary. It is also best approached from the Mt Gosford ZEC...
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Written on August 12, 2014
Mt Moxie (different from Moxie Bald) is a prominent mountain in the Kennebec River highlands, nearby Route 201. It is one of New England’s 50 Finest Mountains and is an exquisite and obscure hike which is curiously left out of the Appalachian Trail. Moxie Mountain rises prominently above the Heald Ponds. I recently spent about...
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Written on August 7, 2014
This is an account of a rugged bushwhack of the Cold Hollow Mountains High Point located near Belvidere, Vermont and is a P2K/NEFF peak. It is trail-less and seldom visited although apparently more well known to hunters of moose, deer and sheds more than hikers. Cold Hollow Mountains, as seen from Belvidere Pond, I believe...
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Written on August 2, 2014
Signal Mountain, Vermont is a trail-less summit that may see no more than a dozen hikers or hunters in a year. It is both a P2K and a county high point which is the only reason that hikers come by this way. Apparently the hunting is great too and it is in a state forest....
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Written on July 22, 2014
Owls Head famously ends up at or near the very end of everyone’s pursuit of the White Mountain 4,000 Footers. This is probably because of a combination of the long distance, a “herd path” instead of a trail, total lack of cell coverage and only fleeting views. However, as most who’ve hiked it will say,...
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