Summits
From north to south, the highest summits of the range include:
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• Mount Lafayette 5,249 feet (1,600 m) * • Mount Truman 5,000 feet (1,500 m) • Mount Lincoln 5,089 feet (1,551 m) * • Little Haystack Mountain 4,780 feet (1,460 m) • Mount Liberty 4,459 feet (1,359 m) * • Mount Flume 4,328 feet (1,319 m) *
The summits marked with an asterisk (*) are included on the Appalachian Mountain Club's peak-bagging list of "Four-thousand footers" in New Hampshire.
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Famous quotes containing the word summits:
“And now it is once more the tidal wave
That when it was swept by, leaves summits stained.
Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,—now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)