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    • Charles Ek
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        August 8, 2011 at 12:37 pm
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        #5876

        Yesterday I loaded my backpack and took a conditioning hike in what New Englanders call mountains (and Westerners would refer to as: “Huh? You mean those little bumps over there?” 🙄 )

        In any event, it was a very pleasant day for August hereabouts, with an overcast sky and temperatures not much past 70. Along the way I saw some new things, some familiar things, and some things to remember in a few weeks.

        Guess where I’ll be on opening day of the archery deer season in September?

        I didn’t enter the NH moose lottery this year because I’ll be busy with something else. But I will keep this in mind in the future:

        And this, for a slightly different, but just as difficult, purpose:

        And they wouldn’t need to be fleet of foot and well-muscled if predators other than me weren’t around. The calling card of the ever-larger, ever-more social Eastern version of Canis latrans, letting everyone know he holds a life estate on this patch of ground:

        I left the woods saying, “See you in September.” And I listened to the casual reply, “Not if we see you first.” 😀

      • George Tsoukalas
          August 8, 2011 at 1:31 pm
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          #45486

          Nice pics and looks like you found a good spot. My friend, my wife and I have been to out west all the way to CA pretty much to visit my daughter and her husband who is in the Air Force. Kancamagus Highway beginning in Lincoln, NH is one of the most beautiful spots I have been to. My daughter and I are have an upcoming day hike there. I’ll also be fly fishing. Lord willing. I don;t hunt in the White Mountains but as you know hunting is allowed. I love it there. NH is a great state. For me it is 45 minutes to the coast and 2 hours to the mountains. Jawge

        • George D. Stout
            August 8, 2011 at 3:22 pm
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            Every now and then I remind the “westerners” that our mountains have trees the whole way to the top, and are actually just as high. Ours starts at sea level, and theirs start at about five-thousand feet. So we have to climb just as far as they do to get to the top. 😉

            Looks like a beautiful place to hunt or just hang out. I’ll love the mountains of Pennsylvania as well, and we have a lot of them….just not as high as N.E. Of course that’s a plus for an old phart like me. )).

          • Charles Ek
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              August 8, 2011 at 3:52 pm
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              #45585

              Sorry, but no sale. 😉 There are far too many bumps under 2000 feet labelled as “mountains” here in the Granite Headed State, including the one I was on yesterday. I know New Hampshire’s Daniel Webster famously said, “Bring me men to match my mountains.” But he never made travelled much out of New England, and certainly never west of the Mississippi.

              FWIW, I grew up in Minnesota, a state for which the USGS actually publishes some topo quads with FIVE FOOT contour intervals. After living for some time in Alaska and Washington, I came home to discover that a new mountain range, the so-called Sawtooth Mountains, had been put on the map during my absence along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Highest elevation on any of them is a scant 2301 feet above sea level, and most of them are far lower.

            • WICanner
                August 8, 2011 at 5:31 pm
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                Don’t forget about New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington. That certainly qualifies as a mountain. Really made my brakes smoke on the way down. 😮

              • Stephen Graf
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                  August 11, 2011 at 9:32 pm
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                  #49233

                  It’s all good. Arguing about the merits of the western mountains vs eastern mountains is like arguing about blonds vs brunettes.

                  I, for one, like em both… But for the record, NC has the highest mountain east of the rockies, mt. mitchell is around 6600 ft. 8)

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