Cohos Trail (NH)

New Hampshire, US

Distance

170 mi

Vertical Gain

33,000 ft

170 miles of wilderness hiking from southern Crawford Notch in the White Mountain National Forest through the Great North Woods to the Canadian border at far-flung Pittsburg, NH. Hearty souls can then continue on Sentier Frontalier’s trails to Mount Megantic or Mount Gosford in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. This network is the only international trail system in New Hampshire and the second international pathway in the East. There are many day hike opportunities along the full length of the Cohos Trail and a great deal of remote territory to explore where you may meet more moose than human beings.

Recently the trail has been updated between Lake Francis and Little Diamond Pond. The gpx map has been updated accordingly.

Old map below from http://nhpr.org/post/where-wild-things-reign-hiking-cohos-trail#stream/0

GPS Track

Gohos new.gpx57 MB

FKTs

Standard route

Male

Self-supported
Robert Rives				2d 18h 0m 0s	2015-07-25

Unsupported
Ray Martin	3d 4h 20m 0s	2024-09-24
Christof Teuscher	3d 9h 50m 35s	2021-10-11
Eli Burakian	4d 3h 21m 0s	2019-09-11

Female

Supported
Phoebe Seltzer				3d 10h 12m 20s	2023-10-11

Non-binary

Self-supported
Aubri Drake				6d 10h 0m 0s	2021-10-08

This route on the old FKT site

http://fastestknowntime.proboards.com/thread/1124/cohos-trail-nh

Comments

Starting for a solo and unsupported attempt on Thu, Oct 7, 2021 (~late afternoon). Details and tracking at https://www.christofteuscher.com/aagaa/news-1st-unsupported-170mi-cohos-trail-fkt-attempt

Headed out to attempt the women’s self supported fkt tomorrow

Dropped out due to fatigue from life after the first day but if the weather stays decent I’m giving it another go around the 6-9.

Just started my second attempt

Made it 163 of 170 in just over 4 days and had to drop due to weather. Hoping to go again next year. Sorry for not updating until a couple weeks later

Going for the self supported womens FKT Tuesday. The trail has been rerouted in the hardscrabble and deadwater area to reduce time spent on roads and has been reduced by around 7 miles.

here is the tracking link. I start NB around 6:30 AM

https://share.garmin.com/Phoebeast

Route: Cohos Trail (NH)

FKTs

Comments