It is fun to drive across the mountains to do hikes on the westernmost edge of the White Mountain National Forest. My artist friend Bob Gordon of Conway has been casually working on the hiking list called “52 with a View.” He goes with various friends, and I have been on a couple, including Black Mountain and Blueberry Mountain, both in Benton.
The “52 with a View” hiking list originated back in 1991, when Lib Crooker, the founder of Sandwich’s “Over the Hill Hikers,” was looking for other hikes after many in her group had completed the 48 New Hampshire 4,000-footers. She observed that the other official list in the state — the New Hampshire Hundred Highest — had a number of gnarly bushwhacks. The group decided to make their own list of hikes all over the state up mountains with trails and good views, giving them the opportunity to travel from Jaffrey’s Mount Monadnock in the south to Pittburg’s Mount Magalloway in the north.
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