which WM peak has concrete foundation on top?

[mrgoldenbrown]

I am trying to remember which white mountain peak I climbed long ago, back before I knew much about the white mountains. It was a mountain with a bald peak and a rectangular concrete foundation a few feet high. I remember sitting inside the wall to take shelter from the wind.
Anybody have any guesses?

-peter

 

[Barbarossa]

This makes me think of Garfield.

Mmm! Golden brown...

 

[forestgnome]

Mt. Garfield has an old fire tower foundation, but I think it's flat. Maybe you were on Mt Lafayette.

 

[LenDawg]

Garfield... with a great view of the Pemi and all the local mtns.

 

[TDawg]

Garfield

100 percent Garfield...it is a bald summit and has a rectangular foundation a few feet high and you can sit inside of it like I did back in June.

Moosilauke and Lafayette also have old rectangular foundations but they are stone and somewhat fallen down, not concrete and still very much standing like on Garfield.

 

[MichaelJ]

And you can even see it here.

 

[Periwinkle]

A view of the summit of Garfield with the foundation outline visible here:

 

[Dalraida]

Nother One

Don't forget Middle Sister. It's stone and concrete.

 

[forestgnome]

Don't forget Middle Sister. It's stone and concrete.

I also thought of Middle Sister, but that foundation is about 12 feet deep.

 

[Dalraida]

And

And it has a USFS radio repeater in it. Kind of hard to scramble down into it. Last time I saw it was in the middle of last winter and the wooden door was deep in snow. Didn't see if it had a lock on it, but it probably does. Might be fun to get a count of the peaks with repeaters on them. Like the one on the north side of Moose Hillock. There used to be one in the ruined fire tower on Speckled, but I don't beleive the tower is there anymore not having been there since about 84.

 

[MichaelJ]

Here are a few unique pictures of Middle Sister, courtesy of AlpineZone.

 

[David Metsky]

Moosilauke and Lafayette also have old rectangular foundations but they are stone and somewhat fallen down, not concrete and still very much standing like on Garfield.

Actually, there is a cement foundation near the summit of Moosilauke from the old summit shelter. It's below the summit, on the old Gorge Brook trail, but visible from up top.

Photo

-dave-

 

[Eric Savage]

Mt. Major?

I am trying to remember which white mountain peak I climbed long ago, back before I knew much about the white mountains. It was a mountain with a bald peak and a rectangular concrete foundation a few feet high. I remember sitting inside the wall to take shelter from the wind.
Anybody have any guesses?

-peter

If your memory is really hazy and you weren't quite in the White Mountains, you might be thinking of Mt. Major in the Belknap Range. Major is more likely than Garfield to have been climbed by a novice. If you remember a big lake in the view, you were on Major (looking at Winnepesauke).

 

[mrgoldenbrown]

Thanks for all the responses

While I certainly was a novice hiker, I was in good shape and hiking with an experienced group, so it very well might have been Garfield. On the other hand, I have been up garfield recently, but it didn't seem like it was the same place - the foundation seemed like a big flat piece of conrete instead of walls standing up. Of course, by that time I was running on pure endorphins so my memory might be a little hazy, and the peak was completely socked in.

 

[Jasonst]

I was thinking Osceola too, but if memory serves me, only the concrete pilings remain.