The COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions dominated this year’s local, state and national medical headlines. Still, in the Yampa Valley, other medical developments impacted patients’ lives throughout 2021.
Hiking The New Hampshire Triple Crown
New Hampshire is a great place to hike with thousands of miles of hiking trails and large tracts of wilderness to explore. While a lot of hikers flock to the White Mountain National Forest to climb the 48 four thousand footers and hike the elaborate White Mountain Trail system, there are many more trails and mountains across the state to slake your thirst for new trails and vistas.
But the three hardest lists and the ones that subsume most other lists are:
The Grid
The New Hampshire 500 Highest
The Grid involves hiking all 48 of the White Mountain 4000 footers in every month of the year, for a total of 576 peaks. You don’t have to hike them all in one year and you can climb multiple peaks in a day. This the most popular of these three lists and so far 105 people have finished it, some multiple times. On average, it takes about 3300 miles of hiking with 1,000,000 feet of elevation gain to complete. Click for “Rules of the Game.”