[at-l] Pemi hiking

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

Hmm, lots of good loop hikes in the Whites - especially in the Pemi area...

The first one I ever did was perhaps the hardest...

Start at the Lincoln Woods trailhead on the Kancamagus, up the Wilderness 
Trail to Osseo (I think that's the name), to Franconia Ridge where it hooks 
up with the AT.  Franconia Ridge to Garfield Ridge, past S. Twin, Guyot, the 
Bonds, and back out the Wilderness trail.

If you're into peak bagging, this loop hits

Flume
Liberty
Little Haystack
Lincoln Lafayette
Garfield
Galehead (if you don't mind a ten minute side trip)
South Twin
Guyot (doesn't "count" as a 4,000'er)
Bond
West Bond (if you don't mind a side trip - and a wonderful place to watch 
sunset when camping at Guyot)
Bond Cliffs

I did this in three LONG days going hut to hut (Lafayette and Galehead).  
You can also do this in four reasonable days hitting campsites (Liberty 
springs, Garfield, Guyot).

A beautiful low elevation, flatter hike would be a loop around Owl's head 
starting at the same trailhead and staying at 13 Falls, a beautiful camp 
area just south of Garfield/Galehead.

Then again, you could easily combine elements of each of these hikes as 
there's trails to 13 Falls from both the Garfield area as well as Galehead 
area.

Let me know if you need more ideas...

Mara

>From: "cosmo catalano, jr." <Cosmo.A.Catalano@williams.edu>
>Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 06:33:02 -0400
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>BTW, once you mentioned a good loop hike in the Whites (Pemmi
>Wilderness?), mind describing it again?  Just trying to plan my
>summer...

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