![]() Our plan was to journey onward for 15 more miles, up and over some of the highest peaks in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest. We’d scurried back down the granite boulders to the hut to warm up, regroup, and assess if we were ready to do it all over again. ![]() With visibility of 20 feet or less and a windchill below freezing, our summit celebration had been short and sweet. Two friends and I have just returned from Mount Madison’s 5,366-foot summit, where a sturdy gale-force wind battered our sweat-soaked bodies already weary from a climb that covered 3,500 feet of elevation in around four miles. I’m standing in the dining room at AMC’s Madison Spring Hut, and even though it’s late August, I can’t get warm. Ian McClellanEven in summer, the footing and weather can prove tricky along the Presidential Traverse-a 19-mile trek along some of the most dramatic landscape in the East. ![]()
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