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White Mountain Trails / Tales of the Trails to the Summit of Mount Washington and other Summits of the White Hills

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By Winthrop Packard
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A linked series of field essays recounts hikes and observations across the White Mountains, moving from lake shores and pastoral foothills to high summits, ravines, and notches. The narrator combines practical route descriptions and shelter notes with vivid landscape imagery, seasonal weather scenes, and attentive natural history—wildflowers, butterflies, and mountain pastures. Encounters with Appalachian Mountain Club camps and local mountain dwellers appear alongside reflections on rural life and timbering. Photographic vignettes and lyrical reportage emphasize sunrise and cloud effects, rock formations, and the lived experience of trail travel, producing a readable blend of travelogue and nature writing.

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Title: White Mountain Trails

Author: Winthrop Packard

Release date: February 11, 2022 [eBook #67377]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Small, Maynard and Company, 1912

Credits: Steve Mattern, Tom Cosmas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Transcriber Note

The term "Ursus Major" appears on page 88. As Ursus is a genus of the family Ursidæ (Bears), it is assumed the author meant to use Ursus instead of the usual "Ursa Major" of astronomers.

WHITE MOUNTAIN TRAILS

Sunrise from the summit of Mount Washington

WHITE MOUNTAIN
TRAILS

TALES OF THE TRAILS

TO THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON AND
OTHER SUMMITS OF THE WHITE HILLS

BY

WINTHROP PACKARD

Author of "Florida Trails," "Literary Pilgrimage
of a Naturalist," "Wild Pastures," etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1912

By Small, Maynard and Company
(INCORPORATED)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

TO THE

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB

WHOSE PATHS MADE IT POSSIBLE

THIS BOOK

IS APPRECIATINGLY DEDICATED