Cohos Trail Thru Hike Episode 4: Devil's Rest to Panorama Shelter

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Footage recorded September October 5th-6th, 2024 with a Sony ZV-1 and an iPhone 12 Pro.

In this episode of my Cohos Trail Thru Hike, Nick and I leave the Devil's Rest Shelter just above Christine Lake and journey north past North and South Percy Peaks, Pond Brook Falls, and Nash Stream before parting ways the next day due to a injury Nick suffered on some slick NH granite rocks. I solo trek onward north past Baldhead Mountain, where I see three moose within a couple of hours, both of which were fairly close in proximity. I then push to Table Rock just above Dixville Notch, which was a major tourist trap that I only briefly savored. From there, it was a 1500+ ft descent down Dixville Notch, and immediately 1500+ ft climb back up to Sanguinary Mountain and the Panorama shelter. I end that night completely spent, overwhelmingly ready to arrive at the Coleman State Park cabins the next day.
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Join the Trail Tribe as we embark on an autumn New England thru hiking adventure for the ages, filled with beauty, challenges, and lessons learned along the way.

About the trail:

The Cohos Trail is 170 miles of wilderness hiking from southern Crawford Notch in the White Mountain National Forest through the Great North Woods to the Canadian border at far-flung Pittsburg, NH.

The Cohos Trail was first envisioned in 1978. The founder, Kim Robert Nilsen, was working as a reporter for a small weekly newspaper called the Coos County Democrat at Lancaster, NH when he wrote an editorial about the concept for a long-distance trail through one million acres of forest in New Hampshire’s largest and most isolated county.

The idea languished for twenty years, but while on vacation in Maine, Nilsen revived the concept and began planning a trail route from Crawford Notch at the southern end of the county to the Canadian border 100 crow-fly miles away to the north.

Hundreds of volunteers, from children to people in the eighties have worked on the Cohos Trail over the years, and they are still at it today. The rest, they say, is history.

Many landowners, state officials, federal employees, local business people, school students, scouts, local camp owners, town officers, and many more have lent a helping hand. Almost everyone contacted and involved over the years has been enthusiastic and encouraging. Without their contributions, the Cohos Trail would not exist.