Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips from Mount Monadnock to Mount Magalloway (Fifth Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes) [Paperback]

Daniel Doan (Author), Ruth Doan MacDougall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 5, 2006 | Series: Explorer's 50 Hikes

A timeless classic to hiking in New Hampshire, with three brand-new hikes.

From New Hampshire's seacoast to the Canadian border, this revised fifth edition of Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes In New Hampshire offers the hiker a plentiful variety of choices in all parts of the Granite State. There are simple woods walks and strenuous 4,000-foot hikes, popular destinations such as Mount Chocorua and remote areas such as the Kilkenny. You can sit beside a brook in Southern New Hampshire or climb a fire tower in the Far North, visit state parks, explore ice caves in King Ravine, pick blueberries, or embark on a backpack.

Featuring three hikes new to this edition: two in Southern New Hampshire—Purgatory Brook and Bald Mountain—and one on Mount Roberts in the Ossipee Range of Central New Hampshire. Updated hikes throughout the rest of the book include new routes on Crotched Mountain, Blue Job Mountain, and Mount Cube. 51 maps, 50 black-and-white photographs

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By all means get . . . Doan's 50 Hikes books, if only for the pleasure of reading them. -- Appalachia AMC magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Daniel Doan hiked the White Mountains of New Hampshire for nearly 70 years while writing novels, short stories, a history of the Indian Stream Republic, the memoir Our Last Backpack, and two hiking guides, Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in the White Mountains and Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire. Recipient of the New Hampshire Writers' Project Lifetime Achievement Award, he died in 1993.

Daughter of New England travel expert Daniel Doan, Ruth Doan MacDougall has for years helped keep his hiking guides up to date. A novelist as well, MacDougall received the NHWP's 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Center Sandwich, NH.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Countryman Press; Fifth Edition edition (June 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881506702
• ISBN-13: 978-0881506709
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Varied and Detailed...excellent source!, September 20, 2004

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Tracy Talley "Book Addict" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips from Mount Monadnock to Mount Magalloway (Paperback)

I have over a dozen books on hiking in New Hampshire (my favorite state and place to climb) but this has to be one of the few that really gets detailed on the trail's good points and bad ones and what to watch for.

The trails are varied, some long and more of 'getting there' attitude and some short but very scenic. The authors really let you know about spots to stop at and why and other neat things to watch for.

I have done at least 12 of the 50 and plan on all if I am able in this short life, lol. No complaints about the descriptions. Also very pleased with the accurate info on parking and directions to the trailhead, which is confusing in some other books.

This is the second book to the 50 Hikes series for New Hampshire, both are unbelievable and invaluable in their information. This one takes us from Barrett Mountain in Southern NH (which by the way is impossible to find informative hiking information on)through the Whites and even one in the Far North. There are quite a few essential 4,000 footers in here, so don't miss out!

Tracy Talley~@

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Adventurer Who Likes to Plan..., March 24, 2000

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Laura Cordovano (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips from Mount Monadnock to Mount Magalloway (Paperback)

I found this book to be extremely helpful. It makes planning a hiking agenda easy. Great maps and detailed overviews. This book gives you the confidence to allow you to explore more of New Hampshire. No matter which trail you decide to take on...you will know what to expect. Even gives guides to "rainy day" hikes. The only drawback is that you will want to pack it with you!