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Flagg, Sentinel & Bayle | 3/23/25
I watched winter disappear all at once this year. When I toured the base of Monadnock a few weeks ago, the firm and fast glides of...
Izzy Risitano
Mar 243 min read
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Green Mountain (Effingham) | 3/2/2025
Passing up on the opportunity to suffer through -25 windchills further north, Willow & I shifted our hike plans south to Green Mountain...
Izzy Risitano
Mar 22 min read
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Extended Bald Knob & Turtleback Loop | 1/5/25
I severely missed my calling to be a Girl Scout. It has been almost two years since I earned my last hiking patch, and among my “just...
Izzy Risitano
Jan 64 min read
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Class of '66 Lodge & Moose Mtn. South | 11/29/24
I have been putting this route off since I crossed the muddy Harris Trail on an AT-section hike a few years ago. Yet somewhere in the sea...
Izzy Risitano
Nov 29, 20243 min read
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Lookout Ledge, Mt. Crescent & Mt. Randolph | 9/8/24
The Randolph Community Forest trails have haunted me since I began my trace, but for what? With a bit of route pre-planning, the RCF...
Izzy Risitano
Sep 8, 20243 min read
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Giant Falls, Dream Lake, and Dryad Falls via Peabody Brook, Dryad Falls, Austin Brook, and Gates Brook | 8/20/24
The great irony of today is that we traded one logging cut for another. Before the rain came in, we had planned to travel to Maine and...
Izzy Risitano
Aug 21, 20243 min read
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Noon & Jennings | 8/11/24
I started this morning with a laugh as I queued up the directions on AllTrails. The most recent review for Sandwich Mountain Trail, which...
Izzy Risitano
Aug 11, 20242 min read
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Mt. Jefferson & Mountain Pond Trail | 7/19/24
I. Mount Jefferson via Caps Ridge, Gulfside, Jewell, Boundary Line, and Jefferson Notch Road Against all good logic, Mt. Jefferson was my...
Izzy Risitano
Jul 23, 20243 min read
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Pemigewasset & Whitehouse | 1/12/23
Oddly enough, my Franconia-focused day began on the far side of Route 49. I had hoped and planned to ascend Sandwich via Drake’s and...
Izzy Risitano
Jan 12, 20242 min read
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Kittredge Hill, Lucia's Lookout Northeast, Gove Northeast, Gove, and Bryant | 12/20/23
I was widely unsure whether it was worth writing a trip report for a hike I didn’t plan, particularly when I SHOULD be spending my time...
Izzy Risitano
Dec 23, 20234 min read
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Al Merrill Loop | 12/1/23
Further closing the gap on the Moosilauke tab, Liz & I finally got to explore the Al Merrill trail on the east side of Moosilauke. The...
Izzy Risitano
Dec 4, 20233 min read
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Goodrich Rock Trail | 11/24/23
Shoulder season is the ideal time to work on “flat-ish” sections of the trail with the family. Making use of our bonus shared day off, we...
Izzy Risitano
Nov 25, 20232 min read
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Lone Oak, Blueberry Mtn, Wachipauka Pond | 11/17/23
For the first time in recent history, my drive home from school and a pleasant weather window landed on the same day. With a high of 55...
Izzy Risitano
Nov 17, 20234 min read
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October Break | Colonel Whipple, Cherry Mtn, Tom-Field-Willey & Arethusa Falls.
At a remarkable ten days late, I have finally written about my lovely long weekend back in New Hampshire. This was my third of four...
Izzy Risitano
Oct 23, 20235 min read
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Mt. Blue via Beaver Brook, Benton, and Tunnel Brook
Since being at school lends me the easiest access to Western New Hampshire, today became yet another tick in the Moosilauke tab. Though I...
Izzy Risitano
Sep 24, 20233 min read
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Izzy Risitano
Sep 21, 20230 min read
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Westside, Kedron Flume, Arethusa-Ripley, Frankenstein & Falcon Cliff | 9/17/23
Over dinner at Kingdom Tap and Table, an idea finally came to us after hours of deliberation for our last hike of the long weekend....
Izzy Risitano
Sep 20, 20234 min read
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The Weeks via Starr King & Kilkenny Ridge | 9/15/23
In the early days of summer, Liz and I were plotting how to make the Weeks traverse more tolerable given its grand exposure, low water,...
Izzy Risitano
Sep 15, 20233 min read
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Pond of Safety via Four Soldiers & Underhill Path | 8/17/23
Don’t fear folks- after Monday’s overly-typical hike, Liz and I got back to our regularly scheduled programming of “Is this the trail” &...
Izzy Risitano
Aug 17, 20233 min read
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Imp Face & Mount Lethe | 8/14/23
Despite crossing off two peaks from two lists, the purpose of Monday’s hike was far more significant than hitting another 52WAV or...
Izzy Risitano
Aug 16, 20233 min read
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