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Someone conveniently placed the five western peaks of the Belknap 12 in a more or less straight line, running south to north. This enables a straightforward traverse of them without excessive distance or effort, and with many great views, as RnR notes. Piecing together the best route from the...

That interesting "peakfinder" diorama on Jockey Cap is a tribute from the late 1930's to Admiral Peary, of the North Pole. It is a three-dimensional realization of a view survey he drew in 1878-79, when, fresh from Bowdoin College, he spent a year living in Fryeburg with his mother and worked...

I'm still waiting for an NH attorney to arrive, but perhaps they're reluctant to give their advice away gratis. Absent one, let me suggest that it just cannot be the case that a violation of the broad prohibitions in part 1 of this statute, which bar all persons from the described activities...

I hope an NH lawyer weighs in on this, but until one does, I would note that the presence of special remedies in a bill that illegalizes certain conduct, such as the provisions in this one aimed at public officials, is unlikely to mean that there are no general remedies. Somewhere in the large...

I had the same question before a trip to Greensboro, NC last year and got some good advice from 1HappyHiker, who may be responding to your post. Based in part on that advice, I enjoyed a pair of hikes around Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock State Park: Both of these would be a lot closer to...

Those new or newish trails, which leave the Tote Road between Bear Brook and Roaring Brook campgrounds, take you to some wonderful spots on the south and west shores of the Lake. Here's a photo I took about 10 yards off a south shore beach, from one of the free BSP canoes you can use, on the...

For that reason, I think I should refrain from kibitzing the editorial choices of the editors of the current Edition of the AMC So. NH Trail Guide. Still, the space devoted to the unspectacular woods roads/trails of Bear Brook State Park, while some very interesting Town properties now go...

The current (3d) Edition of the AMC Southern New Hampshire Trail Guide has indeed dropped Rock Rimmon Hill and three other short hikes that appeared in the Southeastern NH section of the first two Editions. Coincidentally, I hiked to three of those, including Rock Rimmon from the same trailhead...

I got this book as an Xmas present, from some dear friends who live down south. It's nice that some people still give such good old-fashioned paper, ink and pasteboard artifacts as books. Some nice pix too - cute little dog.

THis is a great little view hike, and I'm glad to see it getting a mention. I took the north trail Roy mentions a few Septembers ago, which starts at a camp of cottages near the shore of Poovince Lake. I took some pictures from its summit, and, a little later in the day, one of its summit...

Jeez. Those two Lakes are connected, aren't they? They are about 5 yards apart. ;)

It looks like the famous view of Chocorua and its SE (Bald Mtn./Hammond Tr.) ridge, from the south shore of Chocorua Lake.

I experienced something like this on a half-frozen pond in central NH in the early '90s. I took a look at the sky from our deck after midnight, saw that it was multi-colored, and paddled out to the middle of the pond, where I stabilized my canoe by resting its back end on the ice-shelf, then...

You can also use the "Find" feature on Nat Geo Topo, searching the "Summits, Cliffs and Rock Formations" file for a particular State. Searching "Bald" for Maine, I found 32, ignoring compounds and three-word names, which probably ranks it second to "Oak" for Maine (for which I get 37 hits, using...

That is a great loop. Jazzbo (who planned it) and I enjoyed it in August 2010. There was one thick belt of scrub between Hogback and Green, but otherwise solitary slabs and mostly smooth sailing. I think that same tarn - between Foss and Dickey - caught my eye: P.S. Jazzbo and I were typing...

.... and I spent a few fruitless hours myself looking for those footings about five years ago, rambling around in a fashion that seems similar to Roy's description. I actually found a remarkably square-shaped stone, on the south side of what I took to be the summit clearing, as I recall, that I...

JacobH's Google Earth creation certainly equates the Pawtuckaways with the mystery photo mountains. At 22 miles, I guess they are about the right distance. I originally ruled them out because, at first glance, they seemed to be behind downtown Manchester. I see now. however, that they are...

I too enjoyed the history all around me when I hiked up to So. Uncanoonuc two summers ago, by the trail that follows the bed of the old Incline RR. The only really good views I found were the from the east-facing ledge on the Walker Trail, with a nice panorama of Manchester, and I gather that...

I think the way it works now is you have to register (no charge) once on the reconfigured B. Globe site, but then current articles like this are free, although older stuff from the archives must be purchased. That's how it worked for me, at least. In any case, there is no essential info in the...

Today's Boston Globe includes this interesting article on the completion of the Cohos Trail. Credit is given to Kim Nilsen, its inventor, and to Lainie Castine, who has taken the lead in finishing it.