2. Mt. Monadnock
  3. 2016

12-27-2016 Climb

My 5th and final hike of the year on Mt. Monadnock would be a couple days after xmas during a few days off I had. I went up the Cliff Walk Trail to have a little more time away from the other hikers and the weather gradually turned into a nice clear day. On the summit, the wind was averaging 22 mph and gusting up to 31 mph which made the 34 degree temperature feel like 18 degrees. Overall the hike was 5.73 miles with a total of 2,438 feet of elevation gain
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Heading up the Old Toll Road on the way to the Parker Trail
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Heading up the Old Toll Road on the way to the Parker Trail

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  • Heading up the Old Toll Road on the way to the Parker Trail
  • After a small height of land, the Parker Trail heads downhill slightly. Leading into this wet area of trail where there was some running water with today's warm temperatures
  • The Parker Trail had seen some traffic before I got there
  • The trail sign at the lower end of the Cliff Walk Trail
  • Looking at the start of the Cliff Walk Trail under a few inches of snow
  • The Cliff Walk Trail is marked by occasional white blazes attached to trees
  • The trail is also marked by white letter C's painted onto rocks too. These can be hard to find in the winter though
  • A little ways up the trail is a wooden ladder that was built to help hikers up and down this steep rocky section. It is the only such ladder on the mountain
  • There isn't much snow on the ground here, but the leaves underneath were making it slick. This was when I decided to finally put on my Microspikes
  • While it is winter, some sections of trail had almost no snow on them
  • A look down over the area of the mountain I just came up through
  • Looking northeast from Point Surprise
  • Pack Monadnock (Miller State Park)
  • Where the trail passes by Point Surprise
  • Here the trail conditions were a mix of rocks and ice
  • Ice covering much of the rocks
  • This section of rock had a nice flat side to it
  • As you get higher up on the Cliff Walk Trail, you start to come in and out of the trees more
  • A view to the west at the intersection with the Noble Trail
  • The day started off mostly cloudy, but now the sun is shinning on the trail
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