Fearsome forest

Panorama showing Mt. Liberty, Mt. Flume, parts of the Pemigewasset Wilderness, and parts of Franconia Notch State Park in the White Mountains.

“New Hampshire is one big forest. So apart from the very occasional town or ski resort, New Hampshire is primarily, sometimes dauntingly, wilderness. And its hills are loftier, craggier, more difficult and forbidding than Vermont’s.’’

— From A Walk in the Woods (1998), by Bill Bryson, about hiking up the Appachian Trail.