 Looking south on the Franconia Ridge Trail
AMC Headquarters, 5 Joy Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is one of the United States' oldest outdoor groups. Created in 1876 to explore and preserve the White Mountains in New Hampshire, it has expanded throughout the northeastern U.S., with 12 chapters stretching from Maine to Washington, D.C. The AMC reported a membership of nearly 90,000 in 2005, who mix outdoor recreation, particularly hiking and backpacking, with environmental activism. It has about 2,700 volunteers, who lead roughly 7,000 trips and activities per year. View of Franconia Ridge Trail looking south. ...
View of Franconia Ridge Trail looking south. ...
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This article is about the White Mountains of New Hampshire. ...
State nickname: Granite State, Mother of Rivers, White Mountain State, Switzerland of America [1] Official languages English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Governor John Lynch (D) Senators Judd Gregg (R) John Sununu (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 46th 24,239 km² 3. ...
State nickname: The Pine Tree State Official languages None Capital {{{Capital}}} Largest city Portland Governor John Baldacci (D) Senators Olympia Snowe (R) Susan Collins (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 39th 86,542 km² 13. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The AMC was founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Edward Pickering, who invited fellow Boston academics and vacationers to form a group interested in mountain exploration. The group helped map the White Mountains and in 1888 built the first of eight High Huts in the range, designed after similar facilities in the Alps that gave hikers a place to take shelter. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...
Edward Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering. ...
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The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ...
Although extremely popular, the huts are also controversial, since they allow thousands of people to enter the back woods and environmentally sensitive areas above tree line. It took four years of effort, including the sort of environmental impact statement more commonly associated with industrial activity, to get the huts' permits renewed by the U.S. Forest Service in 1999. In this view of an alpine tree-line, the distant line looks particularly sharp. ...
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The High Huts
Main page found here The High Huts of the White Mountains are a series of eight alpine huts in the White Mountains, owned and maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club, modeled after similar huts in the Alps. ...
The AMC owns and maintains a series of eight alpine huts in the White Mountains modeled after similar huts in the Alps. Hikers can reserve overnight bunks at the huts, which hold from 36 people to 90 people each. At most huts, the reservation includes dinner and breakfast. Payerhütte in the Ortler Alps, Italy An Alpine hut is a building located in the mountains intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers and climbers. ...
This article is about the White Mountains of New Hampshire. ...
The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. ...
The huts are maintained by a team of from three to six caretakers, generally referred to as "the croo" (though officially called simply "hut crew"), who work in ten-day shifts. Each caretaker works six days on, four days off, during the season. During the six working days, they must make two trips back down the mountain to get perishable food and other supplies, carrying loads as heavy as 100 pounds (45 kg) back up. At the beginning of each season, helicopters fly in with fuel and supplies for the huts.
Carter Notch Hut The easternmost hut in the system is open year-round, though it always operates on a self service basis. The site's use as a shelter began in 1904 as a simple log cabin; the current structure was built in 1914. This makes Carter Notch Hut the oldest building in the hut chain. The hut is located just to the south of two tarns, the Lakes of the Winds, which constitute the headwaters of the Wildcat River, and just to the north of the Ramparts, a field of massive boulders that sheared off from the side of Carter Dome. This is the last hut that northbound Appalachian Trail hikers visit before they hike on to the Mahoosuc Range and Maine. Details of cabin corner joint with squared off logs A log cabin is a small house built from logs. ...
State nickname: The Pine Tree State Official languages None Capital {{{Capital}}} Largest city Portland Governor John Baldacci (D) Senators Olympia Snowe (R) Susan Collins (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 39th 86,542 km² 13. ...
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Galehead Hut Construction on Galehead hut began in 1931 using wood from the surrounding trees. It was completed in 1932, along with Zealand Falls Hut, its closest northern neighbor. Originally, the hut used the small space under the front porch to store perishable foods. In 1938, the hut gained a temporary 360 degree view when a hurricane blew over all the surrounding trees. The building itself survived the storm, but it could not last indefinitely - in June 2000, a brand-new Galehead opened to the public. As the hut is located nearly 4,000 feet (1200 m) above sea level and five miles (8 km) from the nearest trailhead and a majority of the building materials had to be carried in, mainly lightweight materials were utilized. Despite this challenge, new features for the hut included composting toilets (already in use at Mizpah Spring Hut, Carter Notch Hut, and Lonesome Lake Hut), solar panels and a wind vane to produce power with little environmental impact, and the ability to withstand winds up to 125 mph (200 km/h). The latter was accomplished by fastening the foundation the the granite groundrock through drilling and grouting rebar. The hut is tied with Mizpah Spring Hut for the fourth highest hut and sleeps the second lowest number of people. Greenleaf hut is it the closest hut to the south. This article is about weather phenomena. ...
Composting toilets use biological processes to deal with the disposal and processing of human excrement into organic compost material. ...
A tied rebar beam cage. ...
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Greenleaf Hut Construction on Greenleaf was completed in 1930 and was the first hut project to use a team of burros to carry materials. Greenleaf was also the first hut in the system with running waters and indoor toilets, which symbolized the shift in concept from that of the huts being simple shelters to that of the huts being more of a mountainside hostel. The design on Greenleaf - a central dining room and kitchen flanked by two bunkrooms - became the model for Galehead and Zealand Falls, both constructed within the next year. This hut was also the first to leave behind the stone and masonry construction technique utilized by earlier huts. Much of the funding for the construction of the hut came from Colonel Charles Greenleaf, for whom the hut is named. Greenleaf is the third highest hut in the system and is tied with Lonesome Lake Hut for the fourth highest capacity. Lonesome is also the huts closest southern neighbor, with Galehead Hut to the north. Burro(aka Unknown/Sonic/Orange Burro)is a sexless creature known for his/her ability to find and infest messageboards all over the world with his stupidity. ...
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Lakes of the Clouds Hut The highest, largest, and most popular hut in the system started as a shelter built in 1901 in response to the deaths in the previous year of two hikers caught in a storm on their way to an AMC meeting atop Mount Washington. 14 years later it was rebuilt as a hut, and has since been renovated three times - in 1922, 1927, and 1947. Despite it position as the highest of the huts, it is also the most easily accessible due to its proximity to the summit of Mount Washington, accessible both by car and by the Mount Washington Cog Railway, a popular tourist attraction. The hut is the largest of the AMC chain: It provides bunks for 90 hikers. Mizpah Spring Hut is the closest hut to the south and Madison Spring is the closest hut to the north. The Mount Washington Cog Railway The Mount Washington Cog Railway was the worlds first cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway). ...
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Lonesome Lake Hut The southernmost hut in the system started out as a fishing camp in 1876, with cabins built by author W.C. Prime. Lonesome Lake officially became part of the AMC hut system in 1929, when the State of New Hampshire bought the land and invited the club to run it as a shelter. It has since become a popular hut for families due to its low altitude and relative ease of ascent. It is notable for being the first hut managed by an all-female croo, in 1979 It is the second lowest hut in the system and is tied with Greenleaf, its closest neighbor, for the fourth highest capacity.
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Madison Spring Hut Madison Spring Hut, built in 1888, is both the oldest hut site in the chain and the oldest hut site in the United States. The first overnight guests stayed in the winter of 1889, and in 1906 a fee was instituted to utilize the shelter - 50 cents per night. The original hut was expanded in that same year, as well as 1911, 1922, and 1929. However, in 1940, a fire - caused by the ignition of gasoline for the gasoline-electric power generator - destroyed much of the hut. The following year it was rebuilt and re-opened. It is the second highest hut in the chain, and sleeps the third highest number of guests. To the south is Lakes of the Clouds Hut and to the north is Carter Notch Hut.
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Mizpah Spring Hut Mizpah Spring Hut was originally built in 1964, and Although there are newer buildings in the system, this makes Mizpah the newest hut site in the system. The building is designed to withstand 200 mph (320 km/h) winds and was built with materials brought in by helicopter. This hut is tied with Galehead Hut for the fourth highest hut and sleeps the second largest amount of people. Its immediate neighbor to the south is Zealand Falls Hut and its immediate neighbor to the north is Lakes of the Clouds hut.
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Zealand Falls Hut Zealand Falls was completed in 1932 along with Galehead and has been open in the winter season since 1973. It, like Lonesome Lake hut, is notable as a "family" hut due to its low altitude and relatively easy approach climb. It also has the lowest capacity of all the huts, sleeping little more than a third of the largest capacity hut. Galehead is neighbored by Galehead to the south and Mizpah Spring to the north.
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See also The Pocosin cabin along the trail in Shenandoah National Park The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply The A.T., is a 2,174 mile (3500 km) marked hiking trail in the eastern United States, extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin...
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