If you continue along the Willey Range Trail past the summit cairn just a few hundred feet or so, there is a viewpoint that offers nice views of the mountains to the east. It was our third view-less summit of the day. We reached the summit of Mount Willey at 4,285′. This section of the trail was also particularly buggy. This is something that we see often, however, so it wasn’t exactly news to me. The trail was extremely narrow and overgrown at times making foot placement difficult. In my opinion, this was not a pleasant 1.4 miles. If you look close enough, you can see the signature red roof of the Omni Mount Washington Resort.Īfter summiting Mount Field, we continued along the Willey Range Trail another 1.4 miles to the summit of Mount Willey. Mount Field is the second view-less summit of the day, but there is a nice viewpoint trail off to the left that offers nice views of some of the sights along Route 302 far below. After a few minutes of rest we were back up and on our way to the Willey Range Trail.įrom the junction it is just under a mile to the summit of Mount Field at 4,340′. There is also plenty of seating in the form of downed (and very smooth) trees. The junction is a bit cooler and offers protection from sun and bugs, so we decided that it was an ideal place to have a quick lunch. The views from Mount Tom are really nothing to write home about, BUT Mount Tom does house just about the coolest pine cones I’ve ever seen.Īfter I finished obsessing over these pine cones, we retraced our steps back. The hike to the summit of Mount Tom went rather quick. After a mile we came to a junction with the Mount Tom Spur trail to the right, which takes you to the summit of Mount Tom at 4,051′ after a short. As we were interested in summiting Mount Tom, we stayed right on the A-Z Trail. To the left was the Avalon Trail which takes you up and over Mount Avalon, a summit at 3,442′. We followed the Avalon Trail for 1.2 miles until we came to a junction.
We picked up the Avalon Trail which is located behind the information center, pictured here on the right, and across the train tracks. It’s just how it goes sometimes (okay, most of the time) when you choose to hike as a larger group. We got a much later start to our hike than I would have liked, but it’s all good. The other half of our group finally rolled in around 10:45 am.
The car was gone when we returned to our vehicles after our hike, so hopefully they made it back to Boston safely after this incident. As the other half of our group was running behind schedule, we tried to keep the owners of this vehicle calm and entertained until AAA arrived. I’d hate to see you end up doing what these city slickers from Boston did…straight into a ditch. Just a word of advice…be careful where you park. Parking can fill up quite quickly here on the weekends, but luckily there is plenty of parking along Route 302. As we chose the Avalon Trail route, we parked near the AMC Highland Center on Route 302. We arrived at the trailhead around 9:15 am. They offer a complimentary continental breakfast every morning as well so we were able to fuel up a bit before starting our hike. Our room was immaculately clean and fit the three of us just fine for one night. I was pleasantly surprised with the motel for the price that we paid. As we started our hike on Saturday morning at Crawford Notch, Stonybrook was a good choice because we were only about a half hour from the trailhead on Saturday morning. We stayed in Franconia, NH at the Stonybrook Motel and Lodge. There was a total of three of us on Friday night. We don’t usually, but this trip in particular we decided to get a hotel on Friday night so that we would be closer to the trailhead on Saturday morning.
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We all had to work a full day this past Friday, so we hit the road as soon as we were free from our day job desk prisons around 5:30 pm. I know this may shock you, but it’s actually pretty difficult to start a blog focused partially on hiking when we haven’t been able to get out much -_- luckily that did seem to change a bit, this weekend anyway. We’ve had a lot going on this summer so we’ve done far less hiking than I would like. I’ve just returned home from yet another wonderful weekend of hiking in the White Mountains! The last hike we did was the Presidential Traverse over a month ago, so I was long overdue to get my butt back up there and get some hiking in.
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