Crawford-Ridgepole Traverse

Activity Type: Hiking, Local Walks, & Trail Running | Hiking
Difficulty: 5 - Vigorous
Trip Leader(s): Holly Riehl, Dia Prantis
Registration Type: Application
Please Click Here to RSVP: https://activities.outdoors.org/a5UVX000001HAiL
Register By: 9/14/2026
Audience: Adults

Description: Join us for an epic traverse in the Squam Lakes Region - the Crawford-Ridgepole traverse is approximately 11 miles and ~2500ft of elevation gain. We will hit seven summits: Doublehead Mtn (2116 ft.), Mount Squam (2169 ft.), Mount Percival (2200 ft., 52WAV, T25), Mount Morgan (2213 ft., 52WAV, T25), Mount Webster (2221 ft), Mount Livermore (1476 ft) and Cotton Mountain (1191 ft). Weather allowing, we will get tremendous views of Squam Lake to the south. We’ll hike at a moderate pace and the hike should require 7-8 hours plus half an hour on each end to position and retrieve cars for a car spot. The northern piece of the trail in particular has some ledgy areas with numerous short, steep ups and downs. Participants should have recent experience hiking similar distances and elevations and appropriate 3-season hiking gear. Morgan and Percival each have short optional sections near their summits with ladders/boulder caves that have earned these sections places on the “Terrifying 25”. Our planned route does not travel over these trail sections, but if time and weather allow we could make a decision to add these for anyone interested.

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