North Hancock and South Hancock

Date of Hike: 6/22/12

Hancock Notch Trail: 1.8 miles	Cedar Brook Trail: 0.7 miles	Hancock Loop Trail: 4.8 miles
Cedar Brook Trail: 0.7 miles	-	Hancock Notch Trail: 1.8 miles
Total Miles: 9.8	-	2,650 elevation gain

Trail Conditions: Hancock Notch Trail in good shape. Water crossings all low on the Cedar Brook Trail, bypass around water crossings during high water branches to the right at first brook crossing.  Trail in rough shape between first and third crossings, mud and erosion. Both links of the Hancock Loop Trail are steep with bad footing, along the ridge is better footing and in good shpae with two mud bogs.

 Arrow Slide

 Ted and Alton hiking up the Hancock Loop Trail's North Link

 Hancock Loop Trail

Staircase section of the steep Hancock Loop Trail 

 Eroded Hancock Loop Trail

 Heading up the Hancock Loop Trail

 Erosion prevention logs on the Hancock Loop Trail

 South Hancock as seen from the North Link of the Hancock Loop Trail

 Ascending the steep Hancock Loop Trail

 Gaining the Hancock ridge

 Approaching North Hancock

 Mount Hancock's Summit

 View from the Outlook on Mount Hancock

 South Hancock from North Hancock

 Ted and Alton

 Alton and me

 Gray Jay scoping out the situation

 Ted feeding a Gray Jay

 Alton trying to feed a Gray Jay

 Ted multitasking!

 Gray Jay waiting for some hand outs

 Gray Jay enjoying the views

 Grouse!

Ted and Alton navigate the mud bog on the Hancock Ridge

South Hancock Summit

Ted andc Alton on the Summit of South Hancock

Cedar Brook / Hancock Loop Trail Junction

Ted and Alton crossing the Kancamagus at the hairpin turn

Hancock Notch Trailhead

Osceola's from the Hancock Notch Trailhead