Love Goat Films: Hiking in the mist continues on Pack Monadnock

Trip Details
Date: June 1^st, 2018
Total Distance: 2.93 mi (via Garmin fenix 5X)
Total Time: 1 hours 24 minutes
Total Elevation: 951 ft gained
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We continued our dreary hiking on the drizzly first day of June at Pack Monadnock. Miller State Park charges $4 per person. The weather kept the crowds down here too. There are two main trails that form a loop with the parking lot. They both offer quite the different hiking experience.

Due to the slick rock, the park rangers recommended we ascend the Wapack Trail and descend the Marion Davis Trail. A trail map is located at the state park website.
The Wapack Trail has some decent bouldering the rocks you have to hike over for a bit, but then eventually turns into a walk in the woods.
There is also an auto road to the summit that you can hike if you wish but I can only imagine the crowds this causes on this small mountain in the summer. They are prepared for it as they have picnic tables, a small store, and outhouses all on the summit.
The fire tower has some chicken wire around all the railings so it kind of ruins the aesthetic.
The summit is also home to two communication towers (the cell phone tower I believe is Sprint as we had LTE on the summit) and a one of the many air monitoring stations for the state of New Hampshire.
The Marion Davis Trail was easy and we ran down most of it. Why they would not recommend that hikers ascend and descend this trail is beyond me as there were minimal to no difficult spots that required maneuvering around wet rocks.

Below are some photos from the hike (the humidity was brutal and coming from an air conditioned car fogged up the lens quite a bit):