Where are the blueberries?

[truepatriot09]

Next weekend I wanted to work a hike around the best place to collect blueberries. Am I too late? Too early? What are you favorite hikes that have you returning with purple fingertips?

Thanks everyone...
-ct

 

[poison ivy]

There were loads of ripe blueberries last weekend along the Crawford Path between Pierce & Ike... you may be cutting it close to the end of blueberry season though. The Ethan Pond trail has quite a lot of blueberry bushes along it too, but it's a lower elevation so they may have ripened earlier. The ones in my yard (at a low elevation, obviously) are long gone.

- Ivy

 

[Bruin]

A great place to pick blueberries is the Welch-Dickey loop. I'm not sure there are any left though, we might have picked them all!
Also, a good spot was where the Glen Boulder Trail meets the Davis Path.
We found quite a few there last September, a little later in the season, probably because of the higher elevation.

 

[Bob Kittredge]

Last year the Red Ridge Trail up North Moat was aswarm with blueberries in early August. Best spot for them I've ever seen in the Whites.

 

[Bob Farrell]

I was on the Zealand trail last weekend and there were many tiny blueberries. I've also eaten many blueberries on the summit of Middle Sugarloaf.

If you are in southern NH, check out Blue Job Mountain. Back in the day, there were many blueberry bushes and people use to harvest them for sale. I haven't been there this year but when I went last year, I could have filled my hat.

 

[peakbagger]

Andover White Cap in Andover Maine is about the most productive and reliable blueberry spot I have found. No marked trails up, but there is a well traveled old logging road to the top. About an hour up and the berries are very thick. I was up two weeks ago and there were still plenty on the edges of the clearing (which is a couple of acres). Great views and excuse to stop by Sunday River brewing!

 

[Jay H]

I'm sorry... I am evil and I ate them all.. I mean all!



jay

 

[Mad Townie]

Jay, you missed some. We ate quite a few ourselves, on South Baldface a couple weeks ago. In fact, we ate our way up the mountain and back down again!

But all the good places have been picked over by now (mwa-ha-ha-ha!).

 

[cooperhill]

i was on Chocura (Liberty Trail) yesterday and they were not quite ripe (mostly at the top on the ledgy portions).

 

[percious]

A couple of weeks ago we did Giant and RPR. There were a TON of blueberries on and near RPR. There are also plenty of great places to set up camp, but there is very little water between 9N and RPR, (just the Mary Louise Pond).

We have also been whitness to blueberries climbing Big Slide Via the Brothers. There are some raspberries in the Johns Brook valley, on the way down the ?wolf jaw? trail.

Oh, and if you are feeling really ambitious, you can bushwhack from the Loj over to South Meadows. You will pass raspberry after blueberry patch this time of year. Ask me how I know that!

-percious

 

[Rivet]

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Wow! There is a paved road to Marcy.

 

[percious]

Um? Boy, im glad there isnt. That is taken in Lake Placid, on the walk around Mirror Lake. My son bears the same name listed on the plaque... Can anyone name it?

-percious

 

[Rob S]

Colden?

By the way, nice website!

 

[percious]

Yes, and thanks. The plaque reads COLDEN; 4174. It's pretty cool to walk around mirror lake and check out the plaques. Definately a good way to remeniss.

-percious

 

[tycho_32]

Mt Major in the lakes region always has lots of berries up near the top. Good ones too.

 

[Nadine]

Berries are scrumptious at Katahdin right now

 

[Raymond]

The better question may be "where aren't the blueberries?". It seems to me that Susan's always finding them on hikes. Saddleback and The Horn last Sunday (August 22), Acadia National Park midweek. A couple years ago, when we climbed Zealand in the middle of September, I began the hike by breaking my water bottle (fifty feet from the parking lot it leapt from its pocket on my fanny pack and struck the ground hard enough to smash a hole in itself). I carried the bottle with me anyway, and she did a good job filling it (and her stomach) with blueberries on Zeacliff.

 

[truepatriot09]

Blueberry Trip Cancelled!

To hell with it, I'm buying some blueberry pie at Fogarty's in South Berwick and sitting by the pool. It's too hot to go hiking. What happened to the FALL weather we had this week?! I'm going full circle back to that other thread, summer is for the kayak!

Thanks for all the tips guys...maybe next weekend.

 

[brianW]

Well I know where they are not, my backyard! I believe the turkey and fox have had most of them.

 

[Jay H]

Tiny blueberries at the summit of West Bond in the Pemis.. While waiting for 45 minutes for Eric to show up (never did) I walked around and feasted on a bunch while waiting for Eric to show. A bit sour, but hey, they were blueberries...

Jay