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Burnt Meadow Mountain, Cutler Mountain, and Bradbury Mountain. Hey, I need to get your attention somehow, since we have the wildest attacks and gun threads going right now. I need to use violence baby.
I decided to check out some mountains that I pass all the time going to the White Mountains that always catch my eye, but never climbed….and I wanted no snow for a change……Ok, and I got up late too. So in Brownfield, Maine I turned off route 113 onto route 160. I really didn’t know where to go to climb. After driving a bit (3.1 miles on 160) I found a parking area on the right with some paint markings on a tree. Looks like a trail. It is a pretty fun mountain to climb. The mountain has a Jekyll and Hyde personality. The mountain from the major road side looks neat, but the other side is really rocky and cliffy. (awesome) It has over 1000 elevation gain (mountain is like 1500 or 1600 feet tall.) for a 2.4 mile round trip if you go back and forth on the trail. When you get on the large summit you can see Chocorua, Pleasant mountain to the North, partially Sebago lake, and the Presidential range. The south ridge looked really neat, so I bushwhacked over to it. It is really easy to get there, and this is where you can see how neat it is to look back to Burnt Meadow mountain. (awesome) Lots of rocks and cliffy. The next time I climb this mountain I will get in that little valley between the south ridge and the summit to check it out. Some guy climbing down the Burnt Meadow mountain trail could see me on the south ridge and kind of watched me hike down. I hooked back to the trail lower down and got to my car. I am glad I finally climbed this mountain!
http://community.webshots.com/album/548988926xiLlBP
No Irving convenience store to stop at….Crap……So I drove down the road on route 113 in Hiram to Mount Cutler. The cliffy looking mountain always caught my eye crossing the Saco river. I turned on to River road, then on to Mt. View road, and parked by the railroad tracks. I ended up in a Honda Civic down by the river, so I could visit Matt Foley motivational speaker that lives in a van down by the river. The trail is easy, well except for that turn I missed. I had to go thru the woods for a bit. Easy going steep up and found a trail. You get to see the Saco river, cell phone towers, and three great views towards the Presidentials in the distance along the way. Mount Cutler is about 1200 feet tall, and about 3 miles round trip. On the way back I see how I missed the turn……I’m stupid and the visible red blazes go to a look out instead. If you see an “End” spray painted go back, and take the trail to the right and up.
http://community.webshots.com/album/548988953vRxglq
I really think this is a good combo hike putting Burnt Meadow and Mount Cutler together for a fun day….But I wasn’t finished. I drove up to the Freeport area, and went to Bradbury state park to climb Bradbury mountain. I never climbed this either. Pretty short climb as this is only about 460 feet tall. You can see the Atlantic Ocean and mountains into New Hampshire. I can’t say it really excited me for some reason. Oh, yeah dog puke on the summit will do it. I kind of liked Hedgehog Mountain in Freeport better just down the road for some reason. So this was a really fun day to check some mountains.
Oh and this Burn, Cut, and Bury thread is really just my alibi, since I did burn cut and bury HarryK. (Hey, he is just a Canadian. It‘s not like it is a real person)
Oh, and some New Zealand pictures if you are interested. I went in December. Kepler Track, Routeburn Track, Avalanche Peak, and Tongariro crossing. (Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings.(Mount Ngauruhoe)) New Zealand really rocks.
http://community.webshots.com/user/adrianhikes
You can also watch video 3 minutes 53 seconds(music montage.)
Or 13 minutes 14 seconds.(stupid semi funny little movies and the music montage. I even diss Frodo from VFTT at 6 minutes 12 seconds on Mount Doom.) http://www.streamload.com/apayeur/EL/M30E080DF9/Videos
Click on Stupid New Zealand videos, and you have the two choices.
I decided to check out some mountains that I pass all the time going to the White Mountains that always catch my eye, but never climbed….and I wanted no snow for a change……Ok, and I got up late too. So in Brownfield, Maine I turned off route 113 onto route 160. I really didn’t know where to go to climb. After driving a bit (3.1 miles on 160) I found a parking area on the right with some paint markings on a tree. Looks like a trail. It is a pretty fun mountain to climb. The mountain has a Jekyll and Hyde personality. The mountain from the major road side looks neat, but the other side is really rocky and cliffy. (awesome) It has over 1000 elevation gain (mountain is like 1500 or 1600 feet tall.) for a 2.4 mile round trip if you go back and forth on the trail. When you get on the large summit you can see Chocorua, Pleasant mountain to the North, partially Sebago lake, and the Presidential range. The south ridge looked really neat, so I bushwhacked over to it. It is really easy to get there, and this is where you can see how neat it is to look back to Burnt Meadow mountain. (awesome) Lots of rocks and cliffy. The next time I climb this mountain I will get in that little valley between the south ridge and the summit to check it out. Some guy climbing down the Burnt Meadow mountain trail could see me on the south ridge and kind of watched me hike down. I hooked back to the trail lower down and got to my car. I am glad I finally climbed this mountain!
http://community.webshots.com/album/548988926xiLlBP
No Irving convenience store to stop at….Crap……So I drove down the road on route 113 in Hiram to Mount Cutler. The cliffy looking mountain always caught my eye crossing the Saco river. I turned on to River road, then on to Mt. View road, and parked by the railroad tracks. I ended up in a Honda Civic down by the river, so I could visit Matt Foley motivational speaker that lives in a van down by the river. The trail is easy, well except for that turn I missed. I had to go thru the woods for a bit. Easy going steep up and found a trail. You get to see the Saco river, cell phone towers, and three great views towards the Presidentials in the distance along the way. Mount Cutler is about 1200 feet tall, and about 3 miles round trip. On the way back I see how I missed the turn……I’m stupid and the visible red blazes go to a look out instead. If you see an “End” spray painted go back, and take the trail to the right and up.
http://community.webshots.com/album/548988953vRxglq
I really think this is a good combo hike putting Burnt Meadow and Mount Cutler together for a fun day….But I wasn’t finished. I drove up to the Freeport area, and went to Bradbury state park to climb Bradbury mountain. I never climbed this either. Pretty short climb as this is only about 460 feet tall. You can see the Atlantic Ocean and mountains into New Hampshire. I can’t say it really excited me for some reason. Oh, yeah dog puke on the summit will do it. I kind of liked Hedgehog Mountain in Freeport better just down the road for some reason. So this was a really fun day to check some mountains.
Oh and this Burn, Cut, and Bury thread is really just my alibi, since I did burn cut and bury HarryK. (Hey, he is just a Canadian. It‘s not like it is a real person)
Oh, and some New Zealand pictures if you are interested. I went in December. Kepler Track, Routeburn Track, Avalanche Peak, and Tongariro crossing. (Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings.(Mount Ngauruhoe)) New Zealand really rocks.
http://community.webshots.com/user/adrianhikes
You can also watch video 3 minutes 53 seconds(music montage.)
Or 13 minutes 14 seconds.(stupid semi funny little movies and the music montage. I even diss Frodo from VFTT at 6 minutes 12 seconds on Mount Doom.) http://www.streamload.com/apayeur/EL/M30E080DF9/Videos
Click on Stupid New Zealand videos, and you have the two choices.
