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  • Hollywood
    hollywood
    • Oct 2004
    • 130
    #1

    Green Mtn

    As a 46r wanna-be (10 so far), I spend my down time planning future hikes. One peak has me a bit curious and that one in Green. I understand this is a trailless peak and the best approach is from the area around the northern (long) trail to Giant. Any advice from you folks would be great and if anyone is going that way in the spring, can I come?
    Carpe Diem
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    • Dick
      somewhere out there...
      • Jan 2004
      • 2821
      #2
      Originally posted by Hollywood
      As a 46r wanna-be (10 so far), I spend my down time planning future hikes. One peak has me a bit curious and that one in Green. I understand this is a trailless peak and the best approach is from the area around the northern (long) trail to Giant. Any advice from you folks would be great and if anyone is going that way in the spring, can I come?
      Welcome, Hollywood. I have not been up Green (but would love to try it sometime). I know there was some discussion about it on VFTT a while back - you could do a search over there. I seem to recall a discussion of a bushwack that started from the lean-to. Also, see hike #52 (Giant Mt. from Hopkins via Green) in the ADK Trails High Peaks Region guidebook. I'm sure there are others here who have done it as well. By the way, it is not one of the official 46 high peaks, even though it is higher (by a few feet) than Blake, Cliff, Nye, and Couch.

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        • Kevin
          **BANNED**
          • Nov 2003
          • 5857
          #3
          Private message lumberzac, I think he's been there in the past year...

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            • lumberzac
              Beware of the Lumberzac
              • Apr 2004
              • 1730
              #4
              Originally posted by Kevin
              Private message lumberzac, I think he's been there in the past year...
              Nope. I've been in that area (Hopkins & Spread Eagle from Giant), but haven't climbed up Green yet. The guy I hike with went up it from the Southeast side and said the hike was a mess of blowdown, but that was at least 5 years ago. I've talk with people who hiked up it from the West side and they said it was mostly an open forest hike all the way up. Sorry I don’t have any more specific information.
              A man needs to believe in something. I believe I'll go hiking.

              http://community.webshots.com/user/lumberzac

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                • Tom McG
                  Member
                  • Apr 2004
                  • 116
                  #5
                  Green Mt.

                  I climbed Green Mt. a couple of years ago and found it rather easy. The route I took was up and over Hopkins and Spread Eagle. I followed the trail the runs between Giant and Green (don't have a map with me so I can't give you the name of the trail) to the Lean-to turn off. From that point I just followed the drainage up to the summit. As you start up the drainage take a compass bearing and stay with that heading. On the return trip we tried to head toward Hopkins, in a vain attempt to cut off some of the trail walk, but the terrain repeatedly forced us back to our original bearing. The summit is flat but you should easily be able to see the high point. The only views we had were those open spots we found on the climb and decent.
                  Tom McG
                  Once you grow up, the only thing left to do is grow old.

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                    • Skyclimber
                      SAFE CLIMBING
                      • Dec 2003
                      • 1086
                      #6
                      Can't believe you found Green easy !! When we did it ten years ago, I found it to be rather thick and the only indictation we made the summit, was an old mayo jar lying on the ground. We did it from the Mossy Cascade Trail and I literally thought I would die. One of those peaks, "Done that, Did that, Not Going Back," Mountain !!
                      "It is easier to become a Forty-Sixer than to be one. The art of the being is to keep one's sense of wonder after the excitement of the game is over."

                      Paul Jamieson Class of '58

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                        • Tom McG
                          Member
                          • Apr 2004
                          • 116
                          #7
                          Green Mt.

                          I climbed Green on March 17, 2002 (St. Patrick’s Day) and found it to be a pretty straightforward hike. As we were descending, we poked around a bit, looking for a different route and I could easily see how it could be a climb from hell. I figure we just got luckily and picked an easy route. Don’t get me wrong there was still a number of places were we had to push our way through the thick brush, but I’ve had a LOT worse climbs that Green. We did enjoy a number of open spots that gave us a real nice view of the slides on Giant.
                          Tom McG
                          Once you grow up, the only thing left to do is grow old.

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                            • Rik
                              H-E-R-O
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 1000247
                              #8
                              I did it a couple of years ago from a dry streambed just past (west) the open area on the North trail to Giant. This open area has a name that isn't coming to me right now. The route up was pretty easy and we hit the top east of the summit and then followed it west. Fairly thick on top. We took a more direct route down and ran into more thick stuff and blowdown than on the way up. I probably have a compass bearing in my journal but that is not in front of me. The only views I had were from the side of Green looking towards Giant and RPR.
                              Die Free and Live

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                                • mike1889
                                  wish I was in the Adks
                                  • Nov 2003
                                  • 269
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Rik
                                  This open area has a name that isn't coming to me right now.
                                  High Bank?

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                                    • Rik
                                      H-E-R-O
                                      • Nov 2004
                                      • 1000247
                                      #10
                                      Yes, High Bank is what I couldn't remember. Thanks
                                      Die Free and Live

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