With chainsaw, clippers, branch loppers, mattock, shovel, and other trail tools in hand, five Granite Staters recently emerged from the forest around a bend on NH Route 3 six miles from the Canadian border and cut the last remaining brush and sapling trees to complete the 165-mile hiking pathway known as the Cohos Trail. The long-distance foot trail, twelve years in the making, is now complete end-to-end, from southern Crawford Notch at Harts Location to Fourth Connecticut Lake here, hard by the international boundary line.
Today, a hiking advocate can stand on the shores of a tiny marsh-like fen on the Canadian border and, in less than two weeks, walk across the Saco River cable-stay bridge at Harts Location and out to Route 302. In doing so, a tramper will have transited almost the entire length of Coos County, New Hampshire’s largest and most isolated county. Along the way, hikers crest 35 mountains, visit as many as half a dozen waterfalls, stand on many a cliff ledge, stay at several lean-to shelters (with more to come soon), a summit cabin, organized campsites, trek up to grand resort hotels, charming inns and bread-and-breakfast establishments, explore arctic tundra, and skirt many ponds and lakes, including 2,800 acre First Connecticut Lake.
I am Jeff Clark, founder of Internet Brothers, producer of this blog, and passionate about hiking. My regular hiking companions have designated me the lead hiker, so I suppose that makes me the slowest Meanderthal. I live in Western NC near the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests are just out my door, so the content will focus on these areas, but let me know what you would like to see on the site. 
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