Saturday, August 31, 2024 Summits: Passaconaway, Whiteface, East Sleeper, South, Middle, and North Tripyramid Start/Finish: Olivarian Brook TH; Pine Bend Brook TH Miles: 16.53 Elevation gain/loss: 5981′ I parked my car on the side of the road by Pine Bend Brook TH. When I went to prep my bike for the 3mi ride, I found … Continue reading TriWhitePass – August
Sunday, June 2 Summits: North, Middle, South Tripyramids; Whiteface; Passaconaway; Square Ledge. Start: Pine Bend Brook TH (with bike from start) Finish: Olivarian Brook TH Miles: 16.07 (with a 3-mile bike around to start) Elevation gain/loss: 5610′ After a quick jaunt up the Hancocks, I parked and biked to Pine Bend Brook. I tied up … Continue reading TriWhitePass- June
Saturday, January 6 Summits: Whiteface, Passaconaway, East & West Sleeper, South, Middle, & North Tripyramid Start: Olivarian Brook TH Finish: Pine Bend Brook TH Miles: 15.91 Elevation gain/loss: 6106′ I met up with Eric at Pine Bend Brook to drop a car at 10:15am. We drove over to Olivarian TH to get started. We headed … Continue reading WhitePassaTri – Jan
Saturday, November 11 Start/Finish: Pine Bend Brook TH Miles: 8.89 Elevation gain/loss: 3760′ After passing by a big group of roller cross-country skiiers ascending Kancamagus Pass on the Kancamagus highway, I headed out from the trailhead at 9:55am. I was able to hike the first 2 miles without spikes but then needed to put them … Continue reading Tripyramids – Nov
Saturday, Oct 28 Start/Finish: Pine Bend Brook TH Miles: 8.8 Elevation gain/loss: 3501 I was up around 5am, and at the trailhead by 6am after a stop at the Sabbaday Falls TH privy. At 6:10am, I headed out to climb the Tripyramids. It was relatively warm, though higher up on the mountain, the clouds were … Continue reading Tripyramids – Oct
Sunday, May 28, 2023 Miles: 15.76 Start: Olivarian Brook TH End: Pine Bend Brook TH Elevation gain/loss: 5440’/5197′ Peaks: Passaconaway, Whiteface, East Sleeper, West Sleeper; South, Middle, and North Tripyramid After a big day yesterday, I started out from the Olivarian Brook trailhead at 7:45am, covering myself in bug spray first. The bugs were aggressive … Continue reading Grid: Passaconaway->N Tripyramid
Thursday, April 13, 2023 Miles: 8.83 Start/End: Pine Bend Brook TH Elevation gain/loss: 3474′ Peaks: Middle and North Tripyramid I headed to the trailhead in the afternoon and got started. There was snow immediately, and I put on my traction. The water was running very high and the snow was fairly soft. I made decent … Continue reading Grid: Tripyramids
February 18, 2022 Peaks: Middle and North Tripyramids Start/End: Pine Bend Brook trailhead Miles: 8.96 Elevation gain: 3927′ GPS track I parked on the side of the road with a handful of other cars by Pine Bend Brook trailhead. I debated spikes versus snowshoes and was glad I decided to go with spikes. The soft … Continue reading The Grid: Tripyramids
December 31, 2021 Peaks: East Sleeper; West Sleeper; South, Middle, and North Tripyramids Start: Downes Brook trailhead End: Pine Bend Brook trailhead Miles: 12.49 Elevation gain: 4298′ GPS track I started from Downes Brook trailhead, and followed tracks all the way up to Kate Sleeper trail. Along the way, I crossed Downes Brook 10 times … Continue reading Winter NE100: East Sleeper
Sunday, February 21, 2021 Start/end: Pine Bend Brook trailhead Miles: 9.28 Elevation gain: 3451′ I parked my car in the Sabbaday Falls lot and the other 3 folks I was hiking with picked me up and we drove the mile down the road to the Pine Bend Brook trailhead. We weren’t certain if we could … Continue reading The Grid: Tripyramids
Transcending Mountains 