East Hale Talus Slope
Have you ever stood at the foot of a broken cliff? It stands before you, bathed in sunlight yet ominously dark and foreboding. Shards of the crumbling rock wall create an enormous pile of unstable stones that shift beneath your every step. Reaching the talus slopes of East Hale, one of the distinguished shoulders of Mt Hale, is easier than you might expect. Human activity this far out in the wild is limited. Logging cuts dot the mountainside. The nearest road is gravel, closed for much of the year. Even hiking trails don’t pass by this remote location on the edge of the expansive Pemigewasset Wilderness. What you’re rewarded with is an experience like no other with an unrivaled view of not only the Presidential Mountain Range but the seldom seen Rosebrook Range leading into the Zealand Valley with an imposing wall of rugged rock looming over you.