Mount Passaconaway (4,043 feet)

Mount Passaconaway from the Blueberry Ledge Trail

Mount Passaconaway located in the Sandwich Wilderness is a wooded summit with absolutely no views.  The summit can be reached via the Dicey's Mill Trail from the Ferncroft trailhead in Wonalancet or from the Kancamagus Highway (NH 112) via Olivarian Brook, Passaconaway Cuttoff, among others.

Trail I've hiked

-Dicey's Mill Trail: 4.6 miles, elevation gain of 2,950 feet. The Dicey's Mill Trail climbs up to the summit of Mount Passaconaway with easy to moderate grades and good footing. The trail has no views but I did not find it completely boring which usually I do when hiking on a trail that's entirely in the woods and is a great hike for beginners!  There is an outlook just below the summit with great far off views over to the Pemigewasset Wilderness.

Downes Brook Slide Trail (Passaconaway Slide Trail): 2.0 miles, elevation gain of 2,300 feet. CAUTION: the Downes Brook Slide Trail has been abandoned since the 1940's because of hazardous footing on steep slippery ledges and when in use it came with a warning of "This trail is dangerous, especially after a rain, and is not recommended to amateur climbers." 1940 AMC White Mountain Guide. The trail ascends over the polished smooth rock surface of the slide and then into the woods up the steep overgrown old trail. The footing on the slide is ok but difficult when wet, the footing in the woods is pretty awful. In the late 1990's the trail was re-blazed illegally, the blazes have been removed but you can still see washed out blazes on the slide and the blazes that were removed from the trees left black, bubbling acid scars on the trees. Views from the slide are fine and there is one area the trail travels near what reminded me of an ancient waterfall under overhanging trees and ledges.

Trip Reports:

May 20th, 2016: Up and Down Dicey's Mill Trail

April 16th, 2016: Death By Sandwich Range :)

August 1st, 2015: Up Downes Brook Trail and Abandoned Downes Brook Slide Trail, down Dicey's Mill Trail, across Rollins Trail and Kate Sleeper Trail, down Mount Tripyramid Trail, across Livermore Road, up Mount Tripyramid Trail, down Sabbaday Brook Trail, across the Kancamagus Highway

June 13th, 2015: Up Tom Wiggins Trail, Blueberry Ledge Trail, across Rollins Trail, down Dicey's Mill Trail

March 29th, 2015: Up Pine Bend Brook, across Mount Tripyramid, Kate Sleeper, and Rollins Trail, up Dicey's Mill trail, down Walden, Square Ledge, Passaconaway Cutoff, and Oliverian Brook Trails

February 23rd, 2015: Up Blueberry Ledge Trail, across Rollins Trail, down Dicey's Mill Trail

October 13th, 2012: Up Downes Brook and Kate Sleeper Trail, across Rollins Trail, up Dicey's Mill Trail, down Walden, Square Ledge, Passaconaway Cutoff, and Oliverian Brook Trails

July 23rd, 2011: Sandwich Range Traverse: Up Downes Brook and Abandoned Downes Brook Passaconaway Slide, across Rollins Trail, over Kate Sleeper Trail, across Mount Tripyramid Trail, down Pine Bend Brook Trail

January 15th, 2011: Up Blueberry Ledge Trail, across Rollins Trail, down Dicey's Mill Trail

September 12th, 2010: Abandoned Downes Brook Slide Trail

December 5th, 2009: Up Blueberry Ledge Trail, across Rollins Trail, down Dicey's Mill Trail

November 22nd, 2008: Up Blueberry Ledge Trail, across Rollins Trail, down Dicey's Mill Trail