Mountain Summers: Tales of Hiking and Exploration in the White Mountains from 1878 to 1886 as Seen Through the Eyes of Women

by Peter Rowan (Editor), June Hammond Rowan (Editor)

Illustrated with 3 maps and 33 photographs.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book of letters exchanged by women in the years 1878 to 1886. I am familiar with the trails that they write about. What I found most interesting were discussions of how they hiked in Thornton, Campton, Lincoln, and North Woodstock, NH….in my area.

[Amerynth · Rating 3 out of 5]

A friend, knowing that I spend much of my free time hiking in New Hampshire, loaned me a copy of Peter and June Hammond Rowan's "Mountain Summers: Tales of hiking and exploration in the White Mountains from 1878 to 1886 as seen through the eyes of women."

The book is a collection of letters, mainly between Isabella Stone and her friends Lucia and Marian Pychowska and Edith Cook, describing their treks to locations through out the White Mountains, from Mt. Washington to Lafayette to Tecumseh.

It was fascinating to read about many familiar places and amazing that these ladies dragged their long skirts up formidable peaks. They described all-too-familiar trails and it was fun to read about their history.

I enjoyed the book, but it's definitely something that would only appeal to those who have hiked in the White Mountains and are interested in their history.