A short hike up MT. Livermore

[Paradox]

Need a short hike? Maybe the wife just wants the kids out of the house. Maybe the in-laws are in town and you are worried about Uncle Junior having an MI as he lifts another beer out of the fridge. Try Mt. Livermore in Central Holderness NH. The parking lot at the end of old Mountain road at NAD27 19 T 291675 4848687, can hold perhaps 15 cars. I have never seen more than one other car, and no parking permit is required. Today it was a perfect low humidity 72 degrees and no other cars we saw no one at all the whole trip. It took Adam and me just twenty six minutes to reach the top.

It is about 0.4 miles up a muddy and a bit washed out jeep road to the Crawford-Ridgepole trail, the grade is easy though. Make a right turn and the trail to the Mount Livermore summit is another easy grade and very well maintained to the top (another .4 miles). The views are great from the Northeast to the Southeast and Mount Kearsarge is visible to the Southwest. A heckova bang for the buck. A trail to the Southwest leads to Cotton Mountain (I have never taken it.) A rock wall is present near the summit, a lasting monument to the tenacity of our ancestors.
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[Mohamed Ellozy]

Interesting!!

I have been over Mt. Livermore as part of the Squam Traverse a few times, but had never thought of it as a stand alone destination. Of course, it depends very much on where you live. It is about an hour's drive from where I live, too far (IMHO) for such a short hike.

 

[Paradox]

Yep, I live only fifteen minutes from the trailhead. It was a "get the kid outside and away from the tube" type of weekend. It took me 30 minutes of asking, begging, demanding, bargaining, and cajolling to get him to go for 45 minutes of hiking. He seemed to be having a great time the entire trip too.

 

[4000'er]

Maybe the wife just wants the kids out of the house. Maybe the in-laws are in town and you are worried about Uncle Junior having an MI as he lifts another beer out of the fridge.

Jeeze Paradox, you lead a colorful life...