![]() (If you stay right, you will end up at Little Haystack Mountain in 1.9 miles). Hike for 0.3 miles until you come to a junction where you will turn left. To head back down to the parking lot, start your hike down on the Liberty Spring Trail. It is not a good idea to end up having to hike down Mount Flume due to its incredible steepness on the Flume Ledges.) It is 3.3 miles until you reach the summit of Mount Flume (roughly 4 hours for the average hiker.) After you enjoy the views on the summit of Flume, continue over the summit for 1.2 miles until you reach the summit of Mount Liberty. Hike for 0.6 miles until you come to a fork where you can turn right to head up Mount Liberty, or Left to head up Mount Flume via the Flume Slide Trail. Then at the junction turn to get towards Liberty Spring Trail, which is also part of the Appalachian Trail. From the parking lot, you will start the hike off by hiking 0.9 miles almost parallel to the highway (some of which is a bike path). This is a loop hike ( see map below) starting at the Whitehouse Trail head at the Flume Visitor Center. The map below shows how to get to the summit of Mount Liberty, as well as Mount Flume. Mount Liberty Trail Maps - Directions from the parking lot to the summit Mount Liberty as seen from the summit of Mount Flume on August 14, 2011. New England Hundred highest in Winter season New England 4,000 footers in Winter season New Hampshire 4,000 footers in Winter season Mount Flume is 1.2 miles from the summit of Mount Liberty It will take 10.1 miles to peak-bag both Liberty and Flume. The shortest trail up to the summit of Liberty is the Liberty Spring Trail, and would take 8.2 miles there and back. Both the views on each mountain are incredible and breath-taking. The Flume Slide Trail is extremely steep for around a mile starting at the summit. It is a great way to cross multiple mountains off your list in one day, and not to mention have multiple views! If you choose to hike both mountains, it is wise to hike up to Mount Flume via the Flume Slide Trail, then over to Mount Liberty, and down the Liberty Spring Trail, which is also part of the Appalachian Trail. Many people choose to hike Mount Flume and Mount Liberty on the same hike, this is known as Peak-Bagging (also mountain bagging, hill bagging, summit to summit). Mount Liberty is the second shortest, after Mount Flume. It is one of 6 mountains in the Franconia Range, though, only 4 of them being 4,000 footers. Mount Liberty is a 4,459 foot mountain in the Franconia Range of the White Mountains. Flume (or hike just Liberty at 6.4 miles) Spring Tentsite, Appalachian Trail, Flume Ledges, Flume Brookĭistance of highlighted hike below: 10.1 miles with Mt. Location: Lincoln, NH (Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA)Ĭoordinates: 44☀6'57" North 71☃8'32" Westįeatures: Brooks, Peak Bagging, 360 Degree Views, Liberty As you walk through the Flume, look at the floor of the Gorge and you many notice remnants of the main basalt dike, and on the walls of the gorge, small trees are growing.On this page: Information | Trail maps | View Photos | Driving Directions The highly fractured granite and basalt have been eroded by frost action as well as by the brook’s water. After the Ice Age, Flume Brook began to flow through the valley again. It partially filled the valley with glacial debris and removed soil and weathered rock from the vicinity. The gorge was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age, but the ice sheet did not greatly change the surface. The basalt dikes eroded faster than the surrounding Conway granite, creating a deepening valley where the Flume Gorge is now. As the overlying rock was worn away, the pressure was relieved and horizontal cracks developed, allowing water to get into the rock layers. Had this material ever reached the surface, it would have become lava flows.Įrosion gradually lowered the earth’s surface and exposed the dikes. Because of this quick cooling, the basalt is a fine-grained rock. The basalt crystallized quickly against the relatively cold granite. The basalt came from deep within the earth as a fluid material, and because of pressure, was able to force the Conway granite aside. Sometime after the fractures were formed, small dikes of basalt were forced up along the fractures. Nearly 200 million years ago in Jurassic times, the Conway granite that forms the walls of the Flume was deeply buried molten rock.Īs it cooled, the granite was broken by closely spaced vertical fractures which lay nearly parallel in a northeasterly direction.
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