White Mountain Trails by Winthrop Packard audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In White Mountain Trails, naturalist and journalist Winthrop Packard invites you onto the footpaths of New Hampshire's White Hills in a vivid, early-20th-century journey of climbing, watching, and wondering. Moving from the spring freshness of Chocorua and its lake to the high, stony world of Mount Washington, Packard follows well-known routes and lesser rambles alike: Carter Notch, Tuckerman's Ravine, Crawford Notch, Boott's Spur, Mount Jackson, Mount Lafayette, and more. Along the way, the mountains become a living field guide. Warblers and bobolinks flash through meadow edges, butterflies swarm the alpine air, and firs and birches change character with every rise in elevation. But this is not only a celebration of scenery. Packard weighs the mood of rain and fog against the hard clarity of summit mornings, and he notices the human marks on the landscape: mountain camps, small hamlets, farms clinging to steep shoulders, and the relentless work of logging roads pushing toward the last stands of spruce. Part travelogue, part nature essay, this book captures the White Mountains as both challenge and refuge, and asks what it means to truly know a wild place by walking it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:48) Chapter 02

(00:35:31) Chapter 03

(00:52:56) Chapter 04

(01:10:14) Chapter 05

(01:27:25) Chapter 06

(01:45:54) Chapter 07

(02:03:47) Chapter 08

(02:21:21) Chapter 09

(02:40:00) Chapter 10

(02:57:17) Chapter 11

(03:13:54) Chapter 12

(03:31:53) Chapter 13

(03:49:10) Chapter 14

(04:07:53) Chapter 15

(04:26:16) Chapter 16

(04:42:25) Chapter 17

(05:00:27) Chapter 18

(05:17:56) Chapter 19

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