Book #3

The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol. 2)

Robert W. Averill · 1999

Contents

  • First Scientific Ascent — Alden Partridge (1817)
  • A Rude Foot Path — George Barstow (1842)
  • A Brief Account of Two Murders — William Little (1870)
  • Amos F. Clough’s Diary — William Little (1870)
  • Up Moosilauke – 1875 — Jack Noon
  • Moosilauke – Side and Summit — Sigma (1876)
  • Moosehillock — Samuel Adams Drake (1882)
  • Notes from the Mountain — Anonymous (1883)
  • Mt. Waternomee and the Blue Ridge — Mary Isabella Stone (1884)
  • Along the Ammonoosuc — The Union (1886)
  • Visits to Mounts Carr and Moosilauke — J.H. Hillman (1888)
  • Early Railroad Tales — George E. Cummings (1919)
  • Moosilauke Railroad — The Union (1891)
  • Mount Moosilauke’s Bird Inhabitants — Ellen E. Webster
  • 14000 Miles – A Carriage and Two Women — Frances S. Howe (1906)
  • On Moosilauke — Charles Chambers Conner (1910)
  • Camp Pemigewassett Bean Soup — Anonymous (1913)
  • Thompsons at the Top — Robert W. Averill
  • The Boy Scouts on Moosilauke — Walter Prichard Eaton (1914)
  • Illumination of the Mountains — Anonymous (1916)
  • Great Bear Rescue — Evan A. Woodward (1923)
  • Glencliff Trail Notes — William W. Ballard (1937)
  • The Night the Bomber Crashed — Floyd W. Ramsey
  • Mountain — John A. Gustafson (1949)

An icy chill struck in up toward tree line, stiffening hands even through heavy mittens. The speed of their pursuit had heated both men so that the first blasts as they cleared the stunted spruces cased them in frozen clothing and numbed their faces.

On the open plateau along which the trail runs for a mile to the summit, a blizzard was blowing. Miller could just make out the half-drifted holes where the hikers had plunged through four feet of snow. And, at the turn where the trail joins the carriage road, a pair of rubber boots stuck in the snow! Nolen stopped to adjust snowshoes. The straps were frozen.

Great Bear Rescue
The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol. 2), p. 540