New Hampshire

Maps:

Software - Topo! New England or Topo! Back Roads Explorer
AMC maps
Free maps of most state parks in *.pdf format here: http://www.nhstateparks.org/state-parks/

Books:

AMC Guide Books - good idea to buy the guide books with maps as a set.
Appalachian Trail Guide to New Hampshire - Vermont with a set of maps. 10th ed.
New England Waterfalls. Greg Parsons and Kate B. Watson
Waterfalls of the White Mountains. 30 Hikes to 100 Waterfalls. Bruce, Doreen and Daniel Bolnick
AMC field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits, 2d Ed. Nancy G. Slack and Allison W. Bell. - this is not a guide book but rather a book on plants, animals and ecology. There is a companion book on Adirondack Mountains. 2 tiny very expensive books, worth every penny you spend.

Note: AT is always blazed White!

Hike 1, 2. White Mountains: Mount Washington Hike; AT between Franconia Notch and Crawford Notch AMC Cabin Trip.

Echo Lake State Park: Cathedral Ledge.

Club: Jay and me scouting

Date: 09/11-15/2007

Parking: all good. AMC provides shuttle between sections of the AT for a very good price.

Topo! New England Trace: WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070911_15.tpo

Universal GPX format from Topo!: WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070911_15_tpo.gpx

Description File: WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070911_15.doc

GPS TrackMaker Trace: WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070911_15.gtm

Garmin MapSource Trace: WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070911_15.gdb

Google Earth Trace: WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070911_15.kmz

Universal GPS Format: WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070911gdb.gpx; WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070912.gpx; WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070913.gpx; WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070914.gpx; WhiteMtns_MtWashington_FranconiaNotch_CrawfordNotch_GPS20070915.gpx

Photo Album: EchoLakeSP_CathedralLedge_20070916

Notes: there are actually 3 hikes here, but the 3d is so tiny I just put it as a waypoint on the map. Very beautiful area. Driving from DC, make sure to get or borrow an Easy Pass.

Warnings: very rocky, very steep, very windy, very cold. The hardest hike and backpack I've done. Harder then California and Arizona with Utah. Close but still harder than Tour du Mont Blanc.

Hike 3. Mount Monadnock