Peaks

 

9

 

 

Pursuers

 

1105

 

 

Finishers

 

28

 

 

Climb the cream of the crop. All peaks in the Northeastern US at least 5,000 ft high with at least 200 ft prominence. Every summit in this challenge is a classic. A small subset of the Northeast 4000 Footers Peak Challenge.

 

Highest peak

Mount Washington

6,288 ft / 1,916 m

Most prominent peak

Mount Washington

6,148 ft / 1,873 m

Most summited peak

Mount Washington

1,000 summits

Most difficult peak

Mount Washington

Class 1

Difficulty breakdown

Class 1/2 3 peaks

Top climbing months

July   20%

August   18%

September  14%

Highlights
"Hiked the Franconia Ridge in the White Mountains of New Hampshire on Sunday, May 30. The forecast over the last few days had dropped like 20 degrees and the chance of rain was steadily increasing, so we nearly abandoned the plan to do this hike, but I’m so glad we didn’t. We drove to Boston Saturday night and stayed with a friend, then a shorter 2 hour drive to the trailhead in NH early in the morning. We started hiking about 8 am and it was good weather to start, mid 40s and partly cloudy. I just wore my long sleeve shirt with no jacket to start because I knew I would get warm quickly. I had thin gloves but took them off almost immediately and stored them in my pockets (and stupidly didn’t put them on again later). The hike started out with some beautiful waterfalls and pretty quickly gaining elevation – a lot of the elevation gain is in the first 2-3 miles with 3480 ft gain in 4 miles. As we climbed you could feel it getting cooler but I waited until about 2.5 hrs in when we got to the first summit – Little Haystack, which is about 4800 ft. But that was a mistake because as soon as we got up there it was like being hit with a wall of freezing wind. I don’t know what the mph wer..." — kvander • May 30, 2021
"A hike with Molly and Denise. I needed just Jefferson for my Grid but Denise and Molly needed all 3. It was a tough hike today but we managed to grab all of them. We went up Jefferson first and ended on Monroe. " — newenglandwarrior • Apr 10, 2021
"A hike with Molly and Denise. I needed just Jefferson for my Grid but Denise and Molly needed all 3. It was a tough hike today but we managed to grab all of them. We went up Jefferson first and ended on Monroe. " — newenglandwarrior • Apr 10, 2021
"A hike with Molly and Denise. I needed just Jefferson for my Grid but Denise and Molly needed all 3. It was a tough hike today but we managed to grab all of them. We went up Jefferson first and ended on Monroe. " — newenglandwarrior • Apr 10, 2021
"I took a day off to grab a 4000 footer for a Calendar Day Challenge. The weather worked out for a Presi day. I went up Ammo to Monroe first. Then up Washington. Then came down Jewell Tr. In the process, I received a blister from a hole in my sock on my pinky toe coming off the mountain." — newenglandwarrior • Mar 17, 2021