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By ABBE HAMILTON

The Michalak siblings had already been hiking for ten hours on the Presidential Traverse in the White Mountains last Wednesday when they realized something was terribly wrong. The Peterborough natives had just started their final descent when they...

By NINA MOSKE

Sporting a bright orange hard hat, Lou Kimball stood above a large stone with a hammer in hand. The boulder was marked with four holes that Kimball had drilled minutes earlier. Metal feathers and wedges, tools used to split hulks of granite into...

By NICK REID

If you’ve ever parked on the side of a state highway in the White Mountains – as so many drivers do – and worried that you might get a ticket, it probably wasn’t worth worrying about.Take this example: At the gateway to the Pemigawasset Wilderness is...

By NICK REID

A New Hampshire woman has become the first known person to complete a vaunted White Mountains hiking challenge – which takes some hikers a lifetime – within a single year.Sue Johnston of Littleton hiked each of the state’s 4,000-foot mountains in...

By NICK REID

The weather turned wet in the White Mountains on Christmas Eve, likely sopping a Massachusetts hiker who had set out alone on a challenging trek into the Pemigewasset Wilderness.The 26-year-old had adequate experience and equipment to venture onto the...