AMC offers COVID conscious opportunities to enjoy the outdoors locally, visit many of our lodges and campgrounds, and join virtual events and activities. Participants of all in-person events should bring and wear face coverings, expect social distancing, and changes to our usual practices. To support contact tracing and hands-free signing of the AMC liability waiver, online registration is required for all in person AMC events.
Join Charlie Arsenault to hear about his 2017 thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. Charlie will share highlights, low lights, and lessons learned while walking the 2,189 mile white blazed path from Georgia to Maine. In 2017, over 6,000 thru hikers joined Charlie on an AT journey of joy and pain, ups and downs, and beauty and ugliness. Come to find out more about the AT from a 2,000 Miler.
Charlie is an AMC member, former Chapter Chair, current Regional Director, Board member, avid hiker, backpacker, and skier.
Join us for a discussion and photographs of a climb of Aconcagua in 2007. A fifteen day trek and climb in the spectacular Argentinian Andes to the highest point in South America. A test of perseverance, a discovery of the many effects of altitude, a solo climb in the company of a multitude of other climbers, and always the incomparable beauty of the mountains.
You must register for this event. We will e-mail you the Zoom meeting details on the day of the event around noon. The presentation will start at 7:00 pm.
Morgane is a 4-season leader and has been leading trips with the AMC since 2016. She usually does day hikes and hikes at a moderate pace. She is currently working on her NH 4000 footers. She speaks fluent French if you ever want to get some practice on the trail!
Alex Nedzel
Alex enjoys hiking in all seasons. While best known for fast-paced single day, multi-peak mega-hikes and gnarly back country bushwhacks, he will enjoy sharing his love for the mountains just about anywhere, with hikers at all ability levels.
Contrary to what some people think, the hiking season doesn't end when there's snow on the ground. In fact, many people think it's actually just beginning. While climbing the 48 peaks in New Hampshire above 4,000 feet has become a popular winter pursuit, there are other high peak challenges both in New Hampshire and throughout the Northeast that someone can use for motivation. These include the Adirondack 46, the New England 67, the Northeast 115, and even the Trailwrights 72.
Morgane is a 4-season leader and has been leading trips with the AMC since 2016. She usually does day hikes and hikes at a moderate pace. She is currently working on her NH 4000 footers. She speaks fluent French if you ever want to get some practice on the trail!
Michael Blair
Michael is a four-season hiker that organizes hikes and backpacks for the Random Group of Hikers and the AMC. He has climbed all of the 115 summits in the Northeast over 4,000 feet, 96 of the New England Hundred Highest, three rounds of the NH 48, and the NH 48 in Winter. Michael is an instructor with the Appalachian Mountain Club's Hiking & Backpacking and Outdoor Leadership Programs, including Mountain Leadership School, and is also certified in Wilderness First Aid.
Alex Nedzel
Alex enjoys hiking in all seasons. While best known for fast-paced single day, multi-peak mega-hikes and gnarly back country bushwhacks, he will enjoy sharing his love for the mountains just about anywhere, with hikers at all ability levels.
With summer finally arriving and the temperature beginning to rise, maybe your mind has been thinking of the sun beaten Serengeti and dreaming of the snow covered summit of Kilimanjaro. If so, then do we have the Zoom event for you! Jeff Noonan and Alanna Smith will be giving a talk this Thursday on their experiences in Tanzania and their trek to summit Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro. Learn interesting facts about the mountain and ask questions to help plan your own expedition. Sign up below and hope to see you there!
What would you do if someone challenged you to climb some White Mountain 4,000 foot peaks? All 48 of them? In a single month? How about for 12 months in a row? In less time than anyone else? Between August 23rd 2018 and July 7th 2019, Philip Carcia climbed all 48 4,000 footers in the White Mountains, in every month, for 12 consecutive months, establishing the "Fastest Known Time" for one of the most grueling and obscure peak-bagging projects in the Northeast - the Single Year Grid.
Alex enjoys hiking in all seasons. While best known for fast-paced single day, multi-peak mega-hikes and gnarly back country bushwhacks, he will enjoy sharing his love for the mountains just about anywhere, with hikers at all ability levels.
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PRESENTING: PHILIP J CARCIA
Philip is a hiker, runner, and media creator who has logged over 15,000 miles on some of the most iconic trail networks in North America. Growing up in Massachusetts and cutting his teeth in New Hampshire, he fostered a deep love affair with the mountains of the Northeast at an early age. Almost two decades later, that love has become an anchor in Philip's personal and professional narrative.
MT '06, LT '07, AT '08, CT '09, PCT '10, TCT '11, JMT '12, TRT '16, WM Direttissima x2
Friday, August 14, 2020 12:00 AM to Sunday, August 16, 2020 12:00 AM
Canceled due to COVID-19 playhouse closure. AMC Gentle Hiking and Summer Theater Weekend. We will offer easy hikes, under five miles, on both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday night, we will go to Jean's Playhouse to see the Disney Musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".. Staying at a Mountain Fare Inn in Campton, NH. $250 covers 2 nights lodging, 2 breakfasts, Sat. dinner and theater ticket. Ls.
Friday, July 17, 2020 3:00 PM to Sunday, July 19, 2020 12:00 PM
Canceled due to COVID-19 Playhouse closure. We will offer easy hikes, under five miles, on both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday night, we will go to Jean's Playhouse to see the musical "Mama Mia".. Staying at a Mountain Fare Inn in Campton, NH. $250 covers 2 nights lodging, 2 breakfasts, Sat. dinner and theater ticket. Ls. Kathy Didier, kathydidiertravels@yahoo.com (603-726-3553) and Marilyn Pomerantz, mobilemarilyn0223@gmail.com (603-254-5826).
Come join us to hear about one of our member's 700 mile Massachusetts to Maine section hike of the Appalachian Trail. He will share some of the gear used, logistics, impressions of each state, the highs and lows and all the kind people he met. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers at the end.
The presentation will begin at 7:00 PM and last approximately 1 hour.
All are welcomed to this virtual event. Please sign up below and the organizer will send out Zoom meeting details before the event.
Elizabeth Ryan is a four-season hiking and backpacking leader with the AMC's Boston Chapter and Adventure Travel. She has completed the New Hampshire 4000 footers, hiked in the Baxter park area and explored some of the glaciated North-west peaks. International trips include hiking in the Scottish Highlands, Newfoundland, Iceland and New Zealand.
Come join us on a slide show of a trip to Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas. We'll see plenty of awesome photos and hear how the trip was set up, what we did to prepare, and the final three days to the summit and back. We'll also cover a few other options that anyone interested in summiting the highest peak in the contiguous United States may take. We'll have time for some questions and answers at the end. Presented by HB Leader Jim Robinson.
The presentation will begin at 7:00 PM and last approximately 1 hour.
Elizabeth Ryan is a four-season hiking and backpacking leader with the AMC's Boston Chapter and Adventure Travel. She has completed the New Hampshire 4000 footers, hiked in the Baxter park area and explored some of the glaciated North-west peaks. International trips include hiking in the Scottish Highlands, Newfoundland, Iceland and New Zealand.
Jim Robinson
An avid outdoorsman for many years, Jim has completed the NEHH and a couple mega-hikes, bagged a few 14ers, cycled internationally, and paddles. But he really enjoys the opportunity to share these adventures with others, encouraging their awe of nature and expanding their confidence and abilities.
