"Warm day for Winter, 40's and partly with light wind and gusts at the summits. Embarked solo from the AMR lot around 6:30 am, needed headlamps for an hour or so. Followed Lake Road until I veered off to the West River trail. Needed to switch to snowshoes right away (and for the rest of the day) as the snow was wet and hadn't been packed down in a while. Followed the WR trail to Wedge Brook trail, steeply ascending to the junction between the WJ's. Decided to climb LW first, then back to the junction and up to UW next, with MW on the way. Steep sections with tricky scrambles all the way, views at each summit before some clouds/haze rolled through. Ran into a handful of hiking groups so the return trip back the same way had more packed down trail. Overall great, but challenging hike with breaking in a lot of snow. Returned to the AMR lot around 4 pm. 4,725 ft elevation gain over 11.5 miles in 9.5 hours." — gregoryskiba • Dec 30, 2022

"Attempted a Great Range Traverse on September 23, 2022 But a freak snow storm, freezing temps, 40mph wind, and a soaking wet mountain range said "no". Modified the plan to exit Gothics towards Pyramid, pick up Sawteeth, and head down the Weld Trail. Afterwards we had to walk out 4.5 miles along Lake Road through AMR and another 2.5 back to the Inn along Route 73 after dark. Memorable." — ndru-virus • Sep 23, 2022

"Parking at the Garden was full upon arrival; after a good deal of searching, found parking at Roostercomb trailhead. Walked up the road to the Garden (took around half an hour) and set out on the Phelps Trail. South Side trail has been abandoned due to storm damage, so I took Phelps Trail up to Johns Brook lodge. Ascended up to Lower Wolf Jaw (tough final half mile!) then back down and up to Upper Wolf Jaw. Path from UWJ to Armstrong to Gothics was quite easy. Impromptu decision to hike Sawteeth, then back up Gothics and descended by Ore Bed Brook trail. Back out and down the road. Phone died 23.5 miles in." — hunterjfrost • Oct 9, 2021

"An epic and picture-perfect day hiking the Lower Great Range with Courtney. We started at a little after 6 am - last time needing to park at the AMR lot and walk up Lake Road! This time we walked all the way out to Lower Ausable Lake about 4 miles on the road before turning off onto the AW Weld trail to head to Sawteeth. We first stopped by Rainbow Falls, which was gorgeous and had rainbows, as advertised. The hike up the Weld trail I had read was "gentle" as compared to the scenic route and we took it to save some time on a big day. I wouldn't have described it quite that way and found it plenty strenuous going up. We summitted Sawteeth about 9:30 am, and the blue skies were amazing. We had definitely worked up a sweat and were surprised when we arrived and some girls were saying the wind was cold up there. We proceeded to the lookout point and made sure to get to the actual summit and then came back to sit on the rocks and enjoy the view and have some snacks and quickly understood as we got chilled sitting there. Time for long sleeve shirt #2. The hike from Sawteeth to Pyramid (which for some reason doesn't count) was some of the steepest of the hike and we worked for that on..." — kvander • Aug 15, 2021

"Began at Rooster Comb parking area for Great Range Traverse. Humid day with some sun, horrible black flies. We added in Pyramid and ran out of time and energy for Haystack. 7 peaks" — bbergman • Jul 3, 2020

"Took 5 aspiring 46ers on this hike over part of the great range which started up the trail to Beaver Meadow Falls then straight up to Gothics. We traversed to Armstrong and Upper Wolfjaw but ran out of steam and decided to skip Lower Wolfjaw. Had great views and gorgeous sunny weather. The group was tired but loved the journey!" — hbotc • Jul 15, 2019

"Was another great but tiring day Solo in the mountains,(55,604 steps) climbing 4 new 46ers, (Lower, Upper Wolfjaws, Armstrong and Sawteeth) Returning to one been to 46er (Gothics) and summiting 3 non significant peaks (Middle Wolfjaw Mountain, Sawteeth-southeast Peak and Pyramid Peak) A total of 8 peaks in 13.5 hrs of ups and downs that make up the Lower Great Range Loop, Awesome day with my first Black bear sighting surprise, about 30ft away enjoying the ground bugs and vegetation, wished I could have gotten a better pic but adrenaline made that impossible at the moment, He moved on and I returned to the trail of the Wolfjaws, Many bridges waterfalls and amazing rock formation along the trail made for an amazing adventure. Doing what you love!" — ramjet1963 • Jun 24, 2019

"took Lake Rd. up to the Scenic Trail up Sawteeth; up and over Pyramid, Gothics, Armstrong, and UWJ to end the day....First hike since breaking my shoulder climbing Marshall 6/17/18" — scottolsen • Jun 8, 2019

"Tom, Black and I left the Garden at 6:45 am @ 23 degrees, high winds and snowing. Micros all the way to the junction between Lower and Upper trails in the Notch. Trail to the summit was completely drifted in. Lost the trail near the summit. Hard to tell if we were on the summit or not. On returning hike our own tracks were snowed in. We took the abandoned South Shore trail back cause it was well broken and traveled. Thinking we'd b able to cross John's Brook on the ice. Big mistake! Had to backtrack to the rangers cabin. That cost us an extra 2 miles in heavy snow and wind. Returned to car at 3:15 @ 28 degrees. 14 miles rt." — garyogden • Jan 27, 2019

"Parked at St. Huberts and headed to the AMR gate to hike the lower great range. Hiked down the Lake Road and started up towards Lower Wolfjaw first. Saw some deer on my way up. Headed from Lower to Upper Wolfjaw where I stopped to drink a beer and met three nice Canadians that wished they brought a beer to enjoy on the summit. Continued on to Armstrong and hung out enjoying the view before deciding to call it a day and head down back to the car since it was already 2:30pm. Loooong walk out to get back to the car. " — Kim-Stilson • Sep 19, 2018