New Hampshire's 52 With a View: A Hiker's Guide

by Ken MacGray

A new (2019) hiking guidebook to the increasingly popular New Hampshire "52 With a View" mountain peakbagging list. This guide features recommended ascent routes for all 52 peaks on the list, plus historical information, trailhead and parking access directions, and summit view descriptions. This is the first guide devoted exclusively to this list of Granite State mountains.

Genres: Nonfiction

244 pages, Perfect Paperback

Reviews

[Babbs]

Will rate once the weather gets warmer and we are able to start chipping away at this list this summer.

[Adam Tierney-Eliot · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a reference book for the "52 With a View" list of mountains in New Hampshire. Newsflash: they all have a view. Height and challenge rating vary. The list, itself is somewhat more subjective than many similar lists--like the 48 4,000 footers--which I like. It makes things a bit more chill as well. It is a bit funny, though, because the 52 WAV list includes a number of "delisted" peaks (which you can still count to your total for the patch) and two hikes that actually have two peak but count for one on the list. That means the count is somewhat off...in an objective sense. All good for me, though, as the hikes range from something you can get done in a morning, to peaks best bagged on your way to or from a 48 peak, to challenging 52Wav-only hikes.

The book itself is very well arranged and thought out. The descriptions are spot on. I have used it in all four seasons--the winter sections are very helpful--and will continue to do so. Even if you are not trying to do "the list" it can be a good resources for your day hikes for a long time.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely helpful guide for those of us hiking the 52WAV. Plenty of detail, enough flexibility in choices for achieving the goal. Combined with the Facebook page, this guide along with a good map and compass is all you need.

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource!

[Dawn Cormier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful in planning out our hikes to the Whites! Great Facebrook group to join as well.

[Michael Sosnowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

welcomed addition for exploring more of the granite state resources.