Elevation gain: 475 feet
Trails used: Hall Mountain Trail, bushwhack.
Highlight(s): jar register on the summit of Hall Mountain, geocache on the summit of Hall Mountain-Northwest Peak.
The weather was supposed to be nice so why not go out on a Sunday morning for a quick hike. I figured we could do something quick with little elevation gain that would be close by or that I could do, and then do errands afterwards. I had done Bear Hill before a few years ago so why not visit the high point in Bear Brook State Park. We managed to drive into the Hall Mountain Trailhead parking area off of Podunk Road and basically got out of the car and started the hike, without backpacks.
Hall Mountain is located in Candia, New Hampshire and also in Bear Brook State Park. Hall Mountain is also the highest point in Candia. There are no trails that go to the wooded, view-less summit of Hall Mountain so it requires a combination of trails and a bushwhack to reach its high point. There are no views, or diminishing views, from the summit of Hall Mountain-Northwest Peak.
The Hall Mountain Trailhead parking area located off of Podunk Road. The Hall Mountain Trail starts between the two boulders.
The Hall Mountain Trail starts off as an old woods road, then changes into a snowmobile trail (in winter) that skirts around the high point of Hall Mountain.
The pill bottle register on the high point of Hall Mountain (elevation: 941 feet).
We decided to bushwhack to Hall Mountain-Northwest Peak instead of using Hall Mountain Trail (mainly because we didn't know it went to the lower summit).
The summit area for Hall Mountain-Northwest Peak. The Hall Mountain Trail runs over this summit and continues on. There are barely any views up here.
The high point of Hall Mountain-Northwest Peak (elevation: 920 feet).
The geocache on the summit of Hall Mountain-Northwest Peak. Make sure you bring something to write with.
Although there isn't much for views from either summit, I did manage to get this picture of Fort Mountain from a random bump during the bushwhack to the Hall Mountain Trail.
We made it back to the Hall Mountain Trail for a quick round trip start to finish. This was a nice hike in the woods and the bushwhack was as easy as it gets in New Hampshire. We only did the route from Hall Mountain and Hall Mountain-Northwest Peak but the Hall Mountain Trail continues on, and there are more trails in the park to explore (possibly at a later date).
Yes, Derek you did make the high point this time.
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