NH Division of Travel and Tourism
With Memorial Day coming up, New Hampshire kicks off the summer season. Last summer, many trails were overcrowded as outdoor enthusiasts and newcomers took advantage of the Granite State’s natural resources. What lessons can we take from that experience and what do we expect this summer? We discuss how we can balance sharing the trails with all those who want to use them, and also promote stewardship of our natural resources.
GUESTS:
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.”
Chocorua Lake Conservancy hosting climate change forum
January 21, 2021NORTH CONWAY As climate change impacts our ecosystems and our local communities, how can we work together to mitigate its effects, and to adapt to them?
On Wednesday, Feb. 3 from 6:30-8 p.m. via Zoom, the public is invited to participate in Recreating in a Changing Climate, a Sense of Place community forum. Decades of local weather data show clear trends of declining snowpack, warming winter air temperatures, increases in annual precipitation, and increases in large rain events. How are these warming climate trends, which are expected to continue, affecting outdoor recreation and the growing outdoor recreation economy in the Mount Washington Valley? Join this forum for a panel discussion about the science and local impacts of climate change, ways to mitigate these impacts, and what actions are being taken to reduce emissions. Panelists from the Appalachian Mountain Club, Clean Energy NH, Cranmore Mountain Re