The Mount Tripyramid hike New Hampshire is located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The White Mountains have AMAZING hikes, peaks, and beautiful nature to see. Two hiking challenges that really let you see these beautiful mountains are 52 With a View and the New Hampshire 48. Both these challenges are strenuous, especially the New Hampshire 48. If you are new to hiking, I would start with the 52 With a View and complete a hike with less than 1,500ft of elevation gain. However, if you are an avid hiker, you will love the New Hampshire 48.

The White Mountains in New Hampshire are very easy for Massachusetts residents to travel to and obviously New Hampshire, and some places in Vermont. Any other places in the northeast, it will be quite a drive and you will want to spend the night somewhere or stay at one of the various huts in the White Mountains. Mount Tripyramid is apart of the New Hampshire 48 hiking challenge that consists of two different 48 peaks.

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Mount Tripyramid:

The 48 peaks in New Hampshire are all the peaks at or above 4,000ft in stature. There are three Tripyramids, North, Middle, and South Tripyramid. However, only two of them, North and Middle Tripyramid are on the 48 list. There are a couple different ways to hike these two peaks or all three of them, if you wish. First, I will talk about the way I hiked these peaks, then I will list the various other ways to hike these peaks. So, let’s get started!

1. Mount Tripyramid via the Pine Bend Brook Trail

Okay, so my friend and I hiked these two peaks via the Pine Bend Brook Trail. After hiking them this way, my conclusion was it was really boring. A lot of people hike these via the slides, which I will talk about later. However, my friend and I did consider hiking these peaks via the slides, but ultimately, decided against it. We did this because we had a lot more hikes planned the week we visited New Hampshire and wanted to make sure we had enough energy for all the continued hiking. However, the Pine Bend Brook Trail was no picnic.

In total, this hike via the Pine Bend Brook Trail is a little over 10 miles round trip with just under 3,500ft of elevation gain. It is an out and back and a pretty boring one. Honestly, the most exciting part of this hike was seeing a young moose on the side of Route 112 or the Kancamagus Highway. It was early in the morning on a weekday, so that’s why we think we saw them. You will be in the woods the whole time. Thus, if this bothers you, I would try to hike the Tripyramids via the slides. Once you get about 1.5 miles in, all the elevation hits. For some reason, this hike felt like a TON of elevation. There’s also a lot of rocks to avoid on this trail, which didn’t make either one of us happy.

Pine Bend Brook Continued

None of the less, we continued onward to North Tripyramid. You will hit North then Middle Tripyramid if you hike it via the Pine Bend Brook Trail. There are no summit markers, we used AllTrails and the other people on the hikes knowledge to let us know we were at the summits. In addition, there’s really not much of a view on either summit. Middle has a little better of one than North.

After you make it to Middle, you can continue to South. We headed down after Middle because we again wanted to save our energy for the rest of the week and didn’t want to hike something that was not on the New Hampshire 48 peaks list. Thus, we hiked down back the way we come to get back to our car. It’s on the descend that we realized how rocky this trail was and re-thought all our decisions. However, we did make it back safely to the car.

Overall, this is a really straight forward hike. If you follow the AllTrails downloadable offline map, you will be fine. In addition, if you follow what looks like a trail, again, you will make it to both summits.

2. Mount Tripyramid via the Sabbaday Brook Trail

Okay, the Sabbaday Brook Trail is another way to hike these peaks. It is about 2 miles longer than the Pine Bend Brook Trail and has a little less elevation gain. We were also informed that the Sabbaday Trail had some water crossings where the Pine Bend did not. Again, very similar to Pine Bend, you will follow only this trail. Then at about 4 miles, you will come to an intersection, where you can either go left or right first to North or Middle Tripyramid first. It seemed like most people who hiked this way, went to Middle Tripyramid first then went past the trail intersection and continued to North.

After North, you will hike back to that trail intersection and get back on the Sabbaday Brook Trail and hike back down to your car. In total, this hike is about 12 miles with just over 3,000ft of elevation gain. I did not hike it via this way however, based on my conversations this others, again, if you follow AllTrails, you should be fine. Also, the trail seemed easy to follow from what I was told.

3. Mount Tripyramid via the Slides & Livermore Trail & Scaur Ridge Trail

Alright, a third way to hike these two peaks is via the Livermore and Scaur Ridge trails. This is the infamous slide route. People call it both the Tripyramid Loop trail or via the Livermore and Scaur Ridge Trails. You will start on the Livermore Trail and Road. In about 2 miles, you will come to an intersection, where you want to stay left on the Livermore Trail. Here is where you will start to encounter little rock slabs, then about .7 of a mile from the summit of North Tripyramid, is where the true slide starts. In addition, .7 from the summit, you will start to follow the Scaur Ridge Trail. Again, I didn’t hike these peaks this way, but from the pictures and videos I’ve seen, it looks like a lot of loose rocks and rock slabs to climb up. This is called the North slide, that you will climb up. Also, the North Slide provides amazing views, again, from the pictures and videos I watched.

After the north slide, you will come to the summit of North Tripyramid. After north, you can continue onto Middle. Then, this is where the two trails differ, instead of going back the way you came, you will continue to South Tripyramid and onto the South Slide. You will continue on the Scaur Ridge Trail for about 3 miles, then come back to the trail intersection, where you will continue on the Livermore Trail and Road back to your car.

On your way down, you will climb down the South Slide. Here, is the AllTrails downloadable offline trail map. This trail is on the Terrifying 25 list. This list consists of New Hampshire’s 25 scariest trails. In total, this hike is about 11 miles round trip with just under 3,000ft of elevation gain.

4. Tripyramids with Whiteface & Passaconaway

Finally, onto our last way to hike the Tripyramids. You can add Whiteface and Passaconaway if you hike it via the Pine Bend Brook. You will follow the same directions as stated above in the Pine Bend section to get to North and Middle Tripyramids. However, at Middle Tripyramid, you will continue to South Tripyramid. Then, you will walk past South summit. In about a .1 of a mile, you will come to an intersection and follow the Kate Sleeper Trail to the left.

Whiteface is FAR away from South. About 3 miles away. Then, Passaconaway is another 3 miles from Whiteface. To me, this sounds like a hellish hike. There is a LOT of mileage and elevation gain and lose to encounter. You could hike it has a traverse and have one person park at the Pine Bend Brook Trail and then another person park at the Ferncroft Trailhead. However, these parking lots are about an hour away from each other. I don’t know, this sounds like a giant headache to me. I think if you hike the Tripyramids via the slide route and then hike Whiteface and Passaconaway on a different day, you will have a MUCH BETTER time.

Whiteface & Passaconaway via Blueberry Ledges Loop

My friend and I hiked Whiteface and Passaconaway via the Blueberry Ledge Loop Trail and LOVED it. We parked at the Ferncroft Road Trailhead and hiked Whiteface first, where we encountered the “ledges” with some interesting rock scrambles. Then we hiked to Passaconaway which is about 3 miles away. Then, we followed the Dicey’s Mill Trail down and had a great time. The way up was beautiful with the different topography changes. Then, the Dicey’s Mills Trail actually had rock stairs to go down instead of huge rocks to avoid. I highly recommend hiking these two peaks this way.

Conclusion

Overall, I really didn’t care for the Tripyramids. However, if I had hiked them via the slides I think I would have changed my mid. The slides are where all the views for the Tripyramids are. Thus, if heights don’t freak you out, I highly recommend hiking these two peaks via the slides. Thank you so much for reading and take care!