Crotched Mountain summit
— — the broad shoulder that looks back at Monadnock.
Not only on a wall.
“A long low summit at 2,066 feet in the Wapack Range, on the line between Francestown and Bennington in southern New Hampshire. The mountain has two peaks, which is where the name comes from. The western one carries the ski area; the eastern one carries the Wapack Trail and a small radio installation. From the top the long view runs west across the Contoocook valley to Mount Monadnock.
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Crotched Mountain rises to 2,066 feet on the line between Francestown and Bennington in Hillsborough County, southern New Hampshire. The mountain is named for its two summits, the western higher than the eastern by about seventy feet. It is part of the Wapack Range, the low north-south ridge that runs from Mount Watatic in Massachusetts up to North Pack Monadnock outside Peterborough. The Wapack Trail, opened in 1923 by Frank Robbins and Marion Davis, crosses the eastern summit. From the top the view runs west to Mount Monadnock, fifteen miles off.
The mountain is low by White Mountain standards but sits alone on the southern New Hampshire plateau, which makes the air on the summit unusually exposed for the elevation. North winds come down off the Wapack ridge with no buffer. Mount Monadnock, fifteen miles southwest, often reads as a free-standing pyramid above the valley haze. On clear days the southern view reaches into Massachusetts as far as Mount Wachusett, sixty miles off. The summit spruce lean in a single direction year after year.
Crotched Mountain Ski Area on the western summit runs from December into late March, with about 100 skiable acres and the longest night-skiing operation in southern New Hampshire. The Wapack Trail crosses the eastern summit and is open to foot traffic in all seasons; trailheads sit off Mountain Road on the Francestown side and off Old Mountain Road in Greenfield. The Crotched Mountain Foundation, on the lower slopes, has run a rehabilitation hospital and specialised school for children with disabilities here since 1953.