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

Chapter 3: FOREWORD

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About This Book

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.

FOREWORD

The author wishes to express his thanks to the editors of the "Boston Evening Transcript" for permission to reprint in this volume matter originally contributed to the columns of that paper; to Mr. Frederick Endicott of Canton, Massachusetts, for permission to reproduce his photographs of "Sunrise on Mount Washington," "Clouds Cascading over the Northern Peaks," "Fog on Mount Cannon," and "Lafayette from Bald Mountain"; to the Appalachian Mountain Club for the shelter of cosy camps so hospitably open to all wayfarers; and to many mountain people, especially those who dwell summers in the tiny hamlet on Mount Washington Summit, for unassuming hospitality and friendly guidance.