Driving up Mt. Mitten

[Mohamed Ellozy]

From the NY Times review of 2010 Cheverolet Equinox:

ON a late summer day I am climbing ever higher on the Jefferson Notch Road, a narrow, lonely dirt ribbon through the White Mountains. By the time I reach Mount Mitten — one of the world’s least majestically named peaks — the new Chevy Equinox has shown some highs and some lows.

...

Eventually, I approached the top of Mount Mitten. It got its name in April 1771 when a man chasing a moose lost a mitten near the summit, according to the book “Place Names of the White Mountains” by Robert and Mary Julyan (University Press of New England).

And to think that I believed that Mt. Mitten was a bushwhack

 

[1HappyHiker]

That is too funny Mohamed.
It’s a classic case of “close but no cigar” (as well as a classic case of a few other things!!)

Of course the Jefferson Notch Road at one point is CLOSE to what I guess you could consider being the base of Mt. Mitten.
But as far as actually driving to the top of Mt. Mitten from Jefferson Notch Road . . . hmmm! I don’t think so!

Thanks for posting!

 

[RoySwkr]

NY Times[/i];295929]By the time I reach Mount Mitten ...
Eventually, I approached the top of Mount Mitten.

Note that he is hedging on whether he actually got to the top, perhaps to avoid ATV citation from the FS

I have actually climbed this peak and left a fake mitten for historical purposes

 

[--M.]

I have actually climbed this peak and left a fake mitten for historical purposes

Was that a real mitten or a Sears mitten?

(...with apologies to the late FZappa)

--Mike

 

[hikes-with-him]

Was that a real mitten or a Sears mitten?

(...with apologies to the late FZappa)

--Mike

Maybe a cat named mitten?

 

[Paradox]

Maybe a cat named mitten?

Cats are named "Sox". But it is a glovely topic for a thread.

 

[audrey]

Oh good, I was afraid it was named after our last unlamented guv'nah.

Any views, Roy?

 

[RoySwkr]

Any views, Roy?

Not that I recall, although historically Crawford Notch was discovered from there somehow I think it would have been easier just to follow the broad valley uphill

 

[Chip]

Was that a real mitten or a Sears mitten?

(...with apologies to the late FZappa)

--Mike

My childhood cat was named "Mittens". If I ever get another, I will now have to name it "Poncho".

 

[--M.]

I once hiked Mt. Mitten with a guy named Frank and a girl named Betty,
(Whose favorite group was Helen Reddy)
We discussed the weather.

We got there in a car by Chevy
We tried to hike, but our packs got too heavy,
So we decided to have dinner.

I got out our food and a tube of fire-starter
And asked for the stove, 'cause it isn't harder
To light it when you've done it before.

But she didn't have it, it was in the car.
Frank got really mad, 'cause it was very far,
Back to the trailhead.

He called her a newbie, a tenderfoot, and a greenhorn,
A lightweight, and a Republican, and she slammed down the corn,
In a petulant frenzy! (Fill in the part about the petulant frenzy!)

We went back to the car, but the battery was dead,
So we tried to use the phone, but there's no cell service in Jefferson Notch,
And that's the end of the story!

Honey honey, hey,
Baby, doncha wanna car like that?

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Sorry, Dave, I tried to keep it on topic.
Sorry, Frank, I had to keep it G-Rated.
Don't wanna Trip Report like that.