Garfield
- Leaders
- Benjamin Moody (coB), Zsofia Sztupinszki (B)
- Program
- Winter School
- Type
- Hiking
- Terrain level
- B
- Trip date
- Saturday, January 25th, 2025
- Difficulty rating
- Difficult (L4)
- Prerequisites
- Previous winter hiking experience + have completed a >10mi hike in the past 6 months
We will be hiking to Mt. Garfield, one of New Hampshire's 4000-footers, for a glorious view of the Pemigewasset Wilderness!
The trail itself is around 9.5 miles, but due to the Gale River Loop Road winter closure, there is approximately a one mile road walk to get the to trail head. Altogether, the hike will be around 11.5 miles. Total elevation gain is around 3k feet.
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/new-hampshire/mount-garfield-trail
We expect the weather to be cold this weekend, so previous experience with layering is a must. We'll have a chance to practice full-face covering at the exposed summit.
This will be a difficult hike due to cold, distance and elevation gain, and we will be hiking at a moderately fast pace hence you are previous winter hike experience and being in reasonably good shape is recommended. Expect to use microspikes and snowshoes if the weather changes!
If you can drive your own car or are willing to drive a rental car, edit the “Lottery preferences” on your MITOC profile to show this. Plan to leave Cambridge/Boston early Saturday morning so we can maximize sunlight.
The pre-trip meeting will be on Thursday at 9:00PM outside of the MITOC office on the 4th floor of the Student Center (W20).
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 8
- Signups opened at
- Jan. 22, 2025, noon
- Signups closed at
- Jan. 23, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
- Notes
- Please tell us about your most recent winter hike experience of similar length.
- What is you weekly fitness routine?
- Have you previously used microspikes, snowshoes, or both?
- What is your favorite proof of the Pythagorean theorem?