Identifier: atnorthofbearcam00boll (find matches)
Title: At the north of Bearcamp Water;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bolles, Frank, 1856-1894. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sandwich Mountains, N.H. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r Paugus Mountainstands in the Sandwich range between Cho-corua on the east and Passaconaway on thewest. It is better armed against attack bymountain climbers than any of its neighbors,and this in spite of the fact that in elevation itis the lowest of the range. Its defenses consistof numerous radiating ridges covered with densegrowths of spruce and crossed by belts of har-ricane, miles of cliffs so forbidding as to repelany but determined assault, and ravines chokedby debris of rock and fallen forest. No path ofany kind leads to its top, and when its summitis gained, none of the familiar marks indicatingprevious visits by egg-eating, initial-cuttingtourists are discoverable. Like most impregnable fortresses, Paugus hasits weak spot. There is a way to reach its south-ern summit without touching a harricane,climbing a precipice, or struggling throughmore than a few rods of spruce jungle. More-over, on this way the traveler is sung to by oneof the most musical of streams, while his eyes
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OLD SHAG. 147 are charmed by the ever-changing beauties of aseries of as exquisite cascades as are to be foundin the White Mountains. It is true that inmidsummer the brook is so reduced in size thatits chief charm is seriously lessened, but if thetime chosen for ascent is in spring, autumn, orafter a heavy summer rain, the falls will befound at their best. On the morning of September 15, a party offour persons entered the lost trail, leadingfrom Berrys to the Swift River intervale. Aheavy rain had fallen during the whole of thepreceding day, and Paugus River, with all itssons and daughters, grandchildren brooks, andgreat-grandchildren rivulets, made the forestresound with the music of innumerable singingfalls and rapids. Following the old trail fortwo miles, the party reached a spot where agood-sized stream appeared flowing eastwardfrom the great hollow in the eastern flank ofPaugus. Leaving the bridle-path at this point,and walking nearly due west, the explorers fol-lowed the branch

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