Mount Mexico On Snowshoes

The original plan was to hike out to the caves behind Mount Mexico. Parking for this trail head is a pull-off on the road and there is only room for a few cars. Fortunately, Jack was able to get a spot. It was chilly, temps were in the single digits when we started out.

Trail starts across the street from parking and is basically a road walk for a little ways up. We had snowshoes with us just in case. When we got to the end of the road we needed to put the snowshoes on.

From this point on the path was a bit of a monorail. There was a fresh 3-4 inches on the ground.

The trail was moderate but with the few extra inches of snow it was kind of slow going.  

As we got closer to the summit the snow got a little deeper. When we got to the toward the highpoint there was a significant amount of new snow and the back side of the trail down to the caves was deep.

The decision was made that we would just go to the highpoint of Mount Mexico. So that is what we did.

When we were bushwacking toward the summit the snow was waist deep. It was slow moving.

We Finaly made it to the high point and took a break. We had a snack and a drink and discussed the many reasons we did not go all the way to the cave.

From here we started to make our way back down. As we made our way to the trail Jack took a little stumble in the snow. The trip down was much quicker going back down and time seemed to fly by.

Before we knew it we were back to the short road walk and took our snowshoes off. We were both glad to get back to the car.

On the way out we drove over to Ferncroft to the Whiteface-Passaconway trail head. There were a lot of cross-country skiers and a good network of trails. I’ll have to make a mental note of this trail network.

We took a few pics and then headed out to the Common Man in Ashland, NH for lunch. All in all a good day and I’ll come back another time to visit the caves again.