If you have decided to venture into New Hampshire to climb the 48-4000 footers, this book is intended to help you in planning specific White Mountain hikes, taking individual trails from the White Mountain Guide and linking them together to get the biggest peak bang for your buck if you only can day hike. All 48 In 2015 maps out the 23 day-hike routes we created for completing all of the 48 summits on the New Hampshire 4000-footer list. The book includes: driving directions and GPS coordinates to the NH White Mountain trailheads; total elevation gain and loss for each hike; total mileage and actual hiking time for each hike. You will also discover information and points of interest about each hike, how most of the mountains, including Mt. Washington, got their names, and the location of the eight AMC backcountry huts and the trails we used to reach them. A glossary of terms, color photography, and the official rules for completing the hikes make this an easy to read and helpful resource for any hiker looking to complete the New Hampshire 48-4000 footers. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC). Since 2010, Quigley had been climbing the mountains of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, rekindling a childhood passion for the sport. Driven by the adventure and the mad desire of the completist, Quigley ascended each of the forty-eight peaks, even repeating hikes he'd climbed before, to achieve his mission of earning his patch and membership in the Four Thousand-Footer Club. Inspired by hiking and trail adventure books like A Walk in the Woods and Stumbling Thru, Quigley's All Forty-Eight in 2015 maps his progress through each of these peaks, from Mt.Tecumseh at just above 4,000 feet to Mt. Washington at a whopping 6,288 feet. Packed with facts, charts, and pictures from Mike's hikes, All Forty-Eight in 2015 is an excellent guidebook for both novice and skilled hikers eager to take on this spectacular challenge for themselves.
About the Author: Since taking his first step onto Mount Watatic at the age of fifty-five, author Mike Quigley has climbed over 150 mountains. Seeking out tests of endurance and ambition, Mike has climbed the highest peaks in five nearby states, completed a thirty mile, thirteen-hour day challenge hike along the Taconic Crest Trail, and even ascended all forty-eight four thousand footers in New Hampshire in a single hiking season. He has climbed Mt. Washington five times and has completed a northern and southern traverse of the White Mountain Presidential's. Eager to share his experience and hard-won mountain wisdom with novice and experienced climbers, Mike now leads hiking adventures all over the Northeast region ... when he's not busy braving new challenges of his own. Join our hiking meetup group in MA called "hikeswithmike".