Mount Webster 2/14/2010

[Paradox]

This is the Mount Webster in the Squam Range and NOT the Mount Webster at the Southwestern end of the Presidentials.

Nice trip for a few hours with your dog. Plowed parking on Old Mountain Road has room for 8 or more cars, I have never seen more than 2. Ascends Old Mountain Road for 0.5 miles to col. Turn right for Mt Livermore, left to Mount Webster. Lots of ice flows on Old Mountain Road. Trail parallels stone wall on West side of ridge for .5 mile then climbs ridge and follows another stone wall for another 0.5 mile. At 2 miles there are fine views to the East of Squam Lake, Red Hill and the "Mountains-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.". Trail was well tracked out to this viewpoint. From here to top was only lightly traveled and I was glad I had snowshoes. Trail now climbs to top of ridge via switchbacks with a view to the West at 2.6 miles. The Ridgepole trail moves to the westside of the summit ridge for the full length of the summit which is roughly .4 miles long. A bushwhack is required and I hit several PUDs and finallly decided on a reasonable guesstimate of the summit, which coincided with my altimeter. Lots of surveyer flagging up there for reasons unclear to me. Bushwhacking is not difficult on the summit ridge.

GPS track and photos on Wikiloc

 

[Chip]

cool. nice hike.

we were at my bro-in-laws camp/cabin/garage on Walker Pond in Boscawen, referred to by all of us as "Man Town"; jeeps, atv's, snow sleds, guns, meat. I got some good snow shoeing in on the 'back 40' Saturday morning. Lots of animal track drama. I lead a "group hike" Sat afternoon; some complaining and "I knew I shouldn't've agreed to hike with YOU !"'s but we had a good tour of the property.

My nephew brought his spoiled, prepped-out girl friend from UVM. We thought she'd whine and wilt, but to our surprise, she was power slidin the atv's and snow sleds on the lake within a couple hours of arrival and shootin targets like annie oakley soon thereafter . So she's okay.

 

[J.Dub]

... she was power slidin the atv's and snow sleds on the lake within a couple hours of arrival and shootin targets like annie oakley soon thereafter . So she's okay.

Odd, you never struck me as a redneck. (Not that there's anything wrong with that... )

Lemme know if you ever need help taking the wheels off your house.

 

[Paradox]

Odd, you never struck me as a redneck. (Not that there's anything wrong with that... )

Lemme know if you ever need help taking the wheels off your house.

Southwestern Connecticut: where the cars are on blocks and the houses on wheels.... mmmmm nahhh!