Crawford Notch to Nauman Campsite

Day Seventeen
Friday, June 14, 2019
Crawford Notch to Nauman Campsite
6.4 Miles

Bruce shuttled us from Gorham back to Crawford Notch to begin our trek north back to Mt. Washington.  We had skipped over this section while we deliberated about how to tackle Mt. Washington a few days ago.  We did Mt. Washington north to Pinckham Notch first, now we have to go back to Mt. Washington from the south. 

It was a walk in the park until we started getting into Webster Cliffs.  We could look up and see Mt. Webster and look down and see Wiley House.  Looking up, I said, “Surely we are not going to walk right on that edge.”  Yes, we did walk right on the edge.

There were lots of mud bogs when we were inside the treeline. 

We reached Mizpah Spring Hut/Nauman Campsite at 4:15ish.  The campsite looked like it had been hit by a tornado, trees down everywhere from severe weather.  A group of young people came from Crawford Notch into the hut late in the evening on their way to Lake of the Clouds Hut.  They were concerned that they would not reach Lake of the Clouds before dinnertime as they still had 6.1 miles to go.  We thought, “That could have been us!”  That was part of our debate a few days ago, whether or not we could do 12.5 miles in one day.  Indeed, we are glad we decided to split it up into two. 

Unfortunately, the fuel canister we bought at Walmart in Gorham for our Jetboil was the wrong one, so we had to get hot water from the Hut for our dehydrated meal for dinner.  

YouTube of Webster Cliffs