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The Northeast 111 is a peak-bagging list of 4,000-foot (1,219.2 m) mountains in the northeastern states of the United States. It includes the sixty-seven 4000-footers of New England (48 in New Hampshire, 14 in Maine and 5 in Vermont), the 46 Adirondack High Peaks, and Slide and Hunter Mountain, both in the Catskills of New York.
The Four-thousand footers (sometimes abbreviated 4ks) [by whom?] are a group of forty-eight mountains in New Hampshire at least 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above sea level. To qualify for inclusion a peak must also meet the more technical criterion of topographic prominence important in the mountaineering sport of peak-bagging .
4000 footers – listed on the four-thousand footers, peaks with an elevation of over 4,000 feet (1,200 m), per the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) 50 Finest – listed on the New England Fifty Finest; AT – mountain is on the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine
As such, no mountains in Massachusetts are recognized by the Appalachian Mountain Club in its list of Four-thousand footers — a list of New England peaks over 4,000 feet with a minimum 200 feet of topographic prominence. Thousands of named summits in Massachusetts (including mountains and hills) are recognized by the USGS. [1]
The trail crosses 15 of the 48 four-thousand footers of New Hampshire, including 6,288-foot (1,917 m) Mount Washington, the highest point of the AT north of Tennessee and most topographically prominent peak in eastern North America. The trail passes within half a mile of 9 additional 4000-footer peaks in the Whites (one summit is only 60 yards ...
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It comes close to the summits of 9 other of the 48 four-thousand footers: Liberty, Garfield (60 yards away over ledges), Galehead, Zealand, Eisenhower, Monroe, Jefferson, Adams, and Moriah. A series of comfortable huts are maintained along parts of the NH trail by the Appalachian Mountain Club.
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