AMC Pinkham Notch Presents: 200 Years of White Mountain Trails History

Featuring guest speaker AMC archivist Becky Fullerton.

What were the first trails in the White Mountain like? Full of convenient stone steps, or barely recognizable? The region’s first trails were all of this and more. AMC’s Trail Crew has been building and maintaining them for 100 years. Learn how trail construction has evolved according modern thought on wilderness, crowd management, and access. Hear the story of White Mountain trails and AMC, from the construction of the 200-year-old Crawford Path through the present.

Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings.

AMC Pinkham Notch Presents: Amazing White Mountain Women

Appalachia editor Christine Woodside presents a program on early outdoors woman and hiker Miriam Underhill and Other Amazing White Mountain Women.

Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

 

“Know Before You Go” Avalanche Program at AMC Pinkham

This one-hour program, presented by avalanche educator David Lottmann, is designed for a broad audience to introduce the 5 steps of avoiding getting caught in an avalanche.

  • Get the Gear
  • Get the Training
  • Get the Forecast
  • Get the Picture
  • Get out of Harm’s Way
  • Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

AMC Pinkham Presents: Cinque Terre-The Five Lands

Join Jack Holmes on a tour of Cinque Terre, a string of centuries-old
seaside villages on the rugged Italian Riviera coastline.

(International Dinner and Adventure Series kick off 2019!)

Pinkham Happenings are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list. (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

AMC Pinkham Presents: Music in the Mountains with Fleur des Lis

Paul Cormier and Jeanine Loubier of Fleur des Lis will play a variety of traditional music, weaving harmonies into a non-traditional celebration of this music.

Pinkham Happenings are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list. (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

AMC Pinkham Notch Presents: Bicknell’s Thrush & Sustainable Development

Guest speaker Mary Ann McGarry, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Plymouth State University, will present “The Bicknell’s Thrush and Sustainable Development.”

A rare native songbird — the Bicknell’s Thrush — has failed to be listed as a threatened species; however, data collected will inform ongoing conservation efforts.

This bird serves as a catalyst for considering how NH is linked to sustainable development in our home state as well as on the island of Hispaniola where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are co-located. The Bicknell’s Thrush breeds in the high peaks of NH and winters in the forests on Hispaniola. Saving this species means protecting its habitat in two regions and solving complex issues related to race, poverty, deforestation and natural resource management. Although the challenges are great, learn what is being done to raise awareness at both ends of the birds’ migratory route.

Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

 

AMC Pinkham Notch Presents: How Not to End Up in Accident Reports

Guest speaker Christine Woodside will present “How Not to End Up in the Accidents Report of Appalachia Journal.”

Chris Woodside is a writer and editor who writes about the history of ordinary Americans and their clashes with nature. Chris has edited Appalachia since 2005. The journal is a mountaineering publication with a literary bent, published since 1876 by the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

AMC Pinkham Notch Presents: History of Mountain Top Inns & Hotels

Guest speaker Allen Crabtree will share the “History of Mountain Top Inns and Hotels.”

For nearly as long as there have been tourists enjoying the White Mountains there have been hotels for them to stay. These have included Crawford’s Old Moosehead Tavern in 1817, the Notch House in 1828, the first Crawford House in 1850, the first of several Mount Washington Summit Hotels in 1874, and many others. Other peaks also sported their summit hotels, including Mount Kearsarge North in North Conway, Pleasant Mountain in Denmark, Me., Mount Chocorua in Albany, and others. This illustrated talk will outline the rise, glory years, and decline of nearly all these summit hotels and grand resorts that were so popular with White Mountain tourists in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

AMC Pinkham Notch Presents: Mountain Search & Rescue

“Lost? Injured? Trends and Personalities in White Mountain Search & Rescue,” featuring guest speaker Sandy Stott.

Using incidents selected from his book, Critical Hours, and his Accidents column in Appalachia Journal, and blending in the audience’s experiences, he’ll look at and ask questions about the current search and rescue scene in the Whites and ask questions about its (and their) future.

Pinkham Happenings Programs begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to all. Call to find out more or to be added to our monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings

Muster in the Mountains

This event features a colonial encampment of reenactors representing the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, and Mountain Man periods from 1750 through 1840. This gathering will take place in the fields at the base of the Mt. Washington Auto Road in beautiful Pinkham Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Participants will demonstrate the use of appropriate tools, clothing, and firearms from their respective time periods. This event is free and open to the general public with the hope that the education they receive here may spur them on to consider becoming a future participant.

Open to the public: Friday and Saturday from 10am – 4pm, Sunday from 10am – 1pm.
Please, no dogs.

The Auto Road remains fully open during this event.

Activities will include:

  • 1800 firearms/cannon display and competition
  • Woods walk competition
  • Tomahawk and knife throwing
  • Cooking competition
  • Weaving, basketmaking, quill work, candle dipping
  • Gunsmithing, coppersmithing, blacksmithing
  • Archery, wood carving, century games and more!