Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips from Mount Monadnock to Mount Magalloway (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

A timeless classic to hiking in New Hampshire, with three brand-new hikes.

From New Hampshire's seacoast to the Canadian border, this revised fifth edition of Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes In New Hampshire offers the hiker a plentiful variety of choices in all parts of the Granite State. There are simple woods walks and strenuous 4,000-foot hikes, popular destinations such as Mount Chocorua and remote areas such as the Kilkenny. You can sit beside a brook in Southern New Hampshire or climb a fire tower in the Far North, visit state parks, explore ice caves in King Ravine, pick blueberries, or embark on a backpack.

Featuring three hikes new to this edition: two in Southern New Hampshire―Purgatory Brook and Bald Mountain―and one on Mount Roberts in the Ossipee Range of Central New Hampshire. Updated hikes throughout the rest of the book include new routes on Crotched Mountain, Blue Job Mountain, and Mount Cube. 51 maps, 50 black-and-white photographs

Daniel Doan hiked the White Mountains of New Hampshire for nearly 70 years while writing novels, short stories, a history of the Indian Stream Republic, the memoir Our Last Backpack, and two hiking guides, Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in the White Mountains and Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire. Recipient of the New Hampshire Writers' Project Lifetime Achievement Award, he died in 1993.

Daughter of New England travel expert Daniel Doan, Ruth Doan MacDougall has for years helped keep his hiking guides up to date. A novelist as well, MacDougall received the NHWP's 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Center Sandwich, NH.