Last year I had been in the NE and hoped to add the MA highpoint to my completed list. Unfortunately they had closed the road to the War Memorial at the top due to ice and snow and I didn’t have the right hiking gear with me to do the 6+ mile round trip.So, when the opportunity came to be able to tackle 4 highpoints in 4 days recently, I took a few extra vacation days and decided not to do any of the primary routes of which 3 of the 4 were either drives to to summit, gondola rides or via cog train, but to hike them all.

I arrived at Mt. Greylock on a very foggy morning so I decided to drive to the top (contrary to what I just stated!) The summit sits at an elevation of 3,491′. Once on the top, I wandered around waiting to see what the weather would produce. It ended up clearing off so I put on my hiking boots and did a reverse highpoint, of sorts. I found part of the Appalachian trail that headed down to a trailhead on Notch road, then turned around and hiked back up to find the top sunny and warm. The total trip down and up was 6.2 miles so I got a bit of a warm up for the big effort that was to follow the next day – Mt. Marcy, the NY state highpoint which is a 14.8 mile roundtrip with 3200′ of elevation gain.