. East of the White Hills. of theway is easy to traverse. The last half is steep andpasses a broad area of fallen timber. The final pullup the summit is arduous, and near this section of thepath is a refreshing spring. Another popular path isfrom the Hammond farm, which is reached by a by-way two thirds of a mile long, diverging from theConway road near Tibbetts Mills, two miles from theChocorua Lake House, and fourteen miles from NorthConway. This route is generally plain and easy. Itleads upward for more than an hour through the woods,and reaches the first high ridge in about one hour andthi
. East of the White Hills. of theway is easy to traverse. The last half is steep andpasses a broad area of fallen timber. The final pullup the summit is arduous, and near this section of thepath is a refreshing spring. Another popular path isfrom the Hammond farm, which is reached by a by-way two thirds of a mile long, diverging from theConway road near Tibbetts Mills, two miles from theChocorua Lake House, and fourteen miles from NorthConway. This route is generally plain and easy. Itleads upward for more than an hour through the woods,and reaches the first high ridge in about one hour andthirty minutes climb from the farm house. Ascendingthence over several shoulders of the mountain, thewalking is found to be good, and the rapidly openingviews on either side are full of interest. The final 1 M. F. Swcetzer. MT. CHOCORUA AND THE LEGAND. 39 peak can only be reached by flanking it and ascendingcautiously on the upper side. It is always wise to em-ploy a guide in ascending Mt. Chocorua, especially thefirst Chocorua Lake ano Mountain. 1 On one side of its jagged peak, a charminglowland prospect stretches east and south of the Sand- 1 Starr King. 40 EAST OF THE WHITE HILLS. wich range, indented by the emerald shores of LakeWinnipiseogee, which lies in queenly beauty upon thesoft, far-stretching landscape. Pass around a rock tothe other side of the pyramid, and you have turned toanother chapter in the book of Nature. Nothing butmountains running in long parallels, or bending, ridgebehind ridge, are visible, here blazing in sunlight,there glowing with shadow, and all related to the tow-ering mass of the imperial Washington. With theexception of Mt. Adams of the Mt, Washington range,there is no peak so sharp as Chocorua. And there isno other summit from which the precipices are so sheer,and sweep down with such cj^cloidal curves. One muststand on the edge of the Great Gulf a thousand feetbelow the summit of Mt. Washington, to see ravinelines so full of force, and sp
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