Presidential range in New Hampshire is pretty. As the name indicates, there are mountains named after former presidents of Unite State. The most famous one is Mount Washington, which is the highest mountain in New England. However, Mount Washington can be reached to the top by cars or train. Due to that, the summit area is very crowded. Compare to Mount Washington, other mountains in the Presidential range is much more peaceful.
One day we chose to hike Mount Madison. Because I am not American, I didn't know Madison was the president of USA. Now I know. It is 5367 foot high.
Pretty: and yes, this is the trail |
The total 11.5 miles and elevation gain was 4016 feet. We climbed via Madison Gulf trail. This is a tough trail to climb because it contains a lot of scrambling.
The point we finished the Madison Gulf Trail |
As you can see in the picture above and right, it is pretty with moisture rocks, and these are the trail, not along the trail! This kind of steep, wet, slippery, and rocky section continues very long. It is really pretty, and at the same tough. Due to this condition, we didn't see a single person climbing up via Madison Gulf trail. It looks like everybody climbed Madison from other side. It was hard, but I like peaceful trail and special thing, I liked this trail.
After Madison Gulf trail, there is a hut called Madison Spring hut. There are many people chilling inside and outside of the hut. Water is available for all hikers. I saw some people staying overnight there and doing short hike in the afternoon to the summit of Madison. It is only 0.4 mile for the summit.
Summit |
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