I am a Japanese female who came to the U.S. for the research opportunity as a scientist.
In my free time, I go hiking, backpacking, XC skiing. I love to be in the deep wilderness. I write my adventures from all over the world and Introduce the beauty of nature, from a viewpoint of Japanese.
日本出身の女性研究者かつハイカー。
休日はハイキング、バックパッキング、クロスカントリスキーなどで多忙。
日本人の視点から見た世界中の自然の美しさを、読者が旅をしているような感覚で読んで頂ければと思い、このブログを作成。
2019-04-18
Mount Washington Day Hiking
Mount Washington is the highest mountain in New England (6288 feet, 1917 meters). It is the Presidential range in New Hampshire. Presidential range has mountains named former American presidents' names.
Because this is the highest peak in the New England, there are so many ways to climb up. By foot, driving, and little train. Of course I hiked up. I hiked up via Lion Head trail. This is called a lion head because there is a big rock seems like a head of lion. The trail is rocky, which is typical in New England. It is 4 miles to the top. It was not as long as I had expected.
These are the pictures at the top and looking at the top. The view is very nice. Because there is a road to drive up, many "normal" people are at the summit. There is a building and you can buy pizza, ice cream etc even. This is...well, different.
As you can see in the left picture, train is also an option to come to the summit. It is expensive, but surprisingly, many people came to the summit by trail. I saw three trains came to the top during my stay at the top. It looks like a good business. You don't need state-of-the-art train like ones in Japan, but people pay anyway.
Boott Spur Trail
On the way back, I hiked down the Boott Spur trail. This is 1 mile longer than Lion Head trail. Due do that, there is almost nobody. Actually I liked it better. It was much more quiet and peaceful. I felt like it was longer than 5 miles, but sometimes New England mileage is wrong.
Many people have sticker on their cars saying "This car climbed Mt Washington". After seeing so many stickers on cars, I bought T-shirt that says, "
This car hiker climbed Mt Washington"
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