New England Skiing, 5 March 2005
Mt. Garfield, White Mountains
Mt. Garfield, White Mountains
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Here's a story I don't have the juice to get in to at the moment. The time Brian and I tried to tour Mt. Garfield, started from the wrong trailhead (.1 of a mile down the road, sharing the same landmark names with the "real" trailhead, which actually has no name) and blundered about aimlessly on snowmobile trails for an entire day. That time. I'm not going to link to the trip report. I don't even want to get that deep into it.
Ahem. And so. The Mt. Garfield ski tour starts at a mostly unmarked pullout off of NH3 near a small sign for Gale River (you figure it out the hard way like we did), climbs 3,180' to the summit at 4,500'. One way it's 6.2 miles. Round trip it's 12.4 miles. I've checked the math. I came back several years later to do the thing solo, mostly because Brian refused (and he told me if I didn't succeed that I should, essentially, do bodily harm to myself; after a few recommendations [blinding being an early frontrunner] I had decided on hobbling). This is what the trailhead looks like, if you've done everything right following FR92 1.2 miles in. Yes, David Goodman, I'm still a little bitter, years later. |
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