The sun is shining down on the endless expanse of hills and forests as weâre driving through the Northern White Mountains to Jefferson, NH. The goal is to peakbag yet another 4k footer before the day is through - Mt Waumbek in the Pliny Range, the second Northernmost of the NH48. Today, I am accompanied by...
If youâve been following along thus far, you might have forgotten that this is a beer blog with all my accounts of hikes and kayak adventures. Well for this article...
If youâve been following this blog since the beginning, youâre probably wondering to yourself: âBrew England? More like Brew Hampshire!â Well, for those of you outside of the Granite State you might be excited to see...
After hiking Cannon Mountain earlier in the day and hanging out at Iron Furnace, I finally checked into my hotel and got settled. The resort I was staying at was just down the street from One Love Brewery in Lincoln, NH, so naturally...
This past weekend I woke up way too early as normal and headed towards White Mountains National Forest. This time however, I planned to spend a long weekend and attempt my longest backpacking adventure to date...
It is 7:30 am and Iâve arrived in Ferncroft, NH for my day of peakbagging Mt Whiteface and Mt Passaconway. Unlike the other trailheads Iâve been to that typically start at the side of a road or at a campsite, the Blueberry Ledge trail had me cut through private drives - donât worry, trespassing hikers were welcomed. The Blueberry Ridge trail is part of the âTerrifying 25â - or 25...
A few years back, I started my quest to climb all 48 of the New Hampshire 4,000 footers. Today, I made a major milestone. With my 24th peak summited, I made the halfway mark. We reached the Eisenhower trailhead around 7:30 and started our ascent. Unlike Tecumseh which apparently is a popular climb, we didnât encounter a single soul until we reached the Crawford path climbing the 4,760 foot mountain a few hours into the hike.
Remember in my last post when I mentioned that there were 48 4,000 footers in the New Hampshire White Mountains? Well today I learned that was a big fat lie.
Early in July, Massachusetts and New Hampshire came together in agreement that New England is handling the pandemic pretty well - get your shit together Georgia and Florida - and lifted the mutual mandatory/suggested quarantine for visitors from the other state (take a hint Maine). For me that means more hiking in my favorite spot - The White Mountains - as well as opening me up to New Hampshire breweries.
Breweries are back open - Awesome! However, if you were expecting to gather the gang up and congregate at the bar like it was 2019, things have changed.