4,902 ft | Twin | 2 routes
Feels like 59°F
~4.2°F drop per 1,000ft
Best Hiking Window
Friday, during morning or midday hours. The window closes quickly — hikers should be off the summit well before late Friday afternoon as winds increase and moisture begins funneling into the region overnight. Avoid Saturday entirely due to severe storm potential.
Trail: Gale River Trail, Garfield Ridge Trail, Frost Trail, Twinway, North Twin Spur, North Twin Trail
Conditions: Dry Trail, Wet/Slippery Rock, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable
“Well the road is open and we were going! We did a point to point car spot which was nice. We made our way up to the hut where we dumped our bags for our short trip to Galehead. Once back, we got our bags and headed up to S Twin. Met many backpackers, pemi day loopers and day hikers today, everyone seems to be out. There was maybe a golf balls size of snow left which you would have walked right on by. We filtered some water throughout there as well. We enjoyed the quite small amount of with on S twin with some food and laughs. We headed over to N twin which is where the people started to disappear from. We met Jeff on the summit and a few black flies. Headed on down and saw the forest service doing some trailwork. Some new sections of the trail seems to have been changed from the last time we were here. Once down, we went and got our other car and done for the day!”
Trail: Lincoln Woods Trail, Osseo Trail, Franconia Ridge Trail, Garfield Ridge Trail, Frost Trail, Twinway, Bondcliff Trail, West Bond Spur
Conditions: Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Wet/Slippery Rock, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Mud - Significant, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Unstable), Snow/Ice - Small Patches
“Awesome pemi this morning-started at 2:45 to minimize heat, bugs, and potential afternoon thunderstorms. Saw fewer than twenty hikers all day (no other trail runners), and had every summit minus Liberty to myself! Strong winds and big old clouds kept it comfortable until the eight mile run down from Bondcliff, which felt like I was running through hell it was so dang hot with minimal leaf coverage in the hardwoods. Leave the spikes at home! There was one stretch of stubborn unavoidable snow just before breaking treeline on Guyot. It only lasted five minutes. It was reported that the Zealand-Guyot stretch is still deep and nasty as of this morning. Top of Garfield and West Bond essentially all melted out. Get it before the LW closure!!!”
Trail: Gale River Trail, Garfield Ridge Trail, Frost Trail, Twinway, North Twin Spur, North Twin Trail, Haystack Road, FR 22
Conditions: Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Snow/Ice - Small Patches
“The Gale River Trail is in decent shape, standing water on the trail for a few hundred feet down low, with muddy sections here and there. Garfield Ridge Trail, Frost Trail, and Twinway are a little slippery in spots at the moment, with some mud, but overall not too bad 48 hours after a heavy rainfall. North Twin Spur had some easily avoidable monorail, which should be gone by next weekend. There were a few sections of standing water on the trail, and the trail is very scratchy for the first 0.25 miles descending from South Twin. North Twin Trail has a few muddy sections and a couple of spots with running water on the trail. The trail is becoming severely eroded about halfway down to just above the water crossing. From Little River to the trailhead is in nice shape. Haystack Road is looking good and should open soon. FR 22 - Corridor 11 snowmo trail, which connects Haystack Road to the uppermost dead end of Gale River Road, was 75% dry and 25% muddy. It's a very pleasant route to make a loop if you don't want to back track. Fair warning, it does contain a 450' PUD. Beautiful day out, summer temps with a nice breeze on South Twin. The dog had a blast getting extremely muddy!”
Conditions synthesized from: NWS Higher Summits Forecast, NOAA Open-Meteo, Mount Washington Observatory, NETC Trip Reports, NOHRSC Snow Depth, Mt. Washington Avalanche Center, USGS Stream Levels, OpenWeather Air Quality.
AI-generated from public data. Always verify conditions before heading out — backcountry weather can change quickly.
Part of the Twins Range with excellent views. Galehead Hut is nearby. Often combined with North Twin and Galehead.
Elevation
4,902 ft
Range
Twin
Rank
#8 of 48
Difficulty
Difficult
Coordinates
44.1876, -71.5548
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1 incident on file · 1 fatal · drawn from NH Fish and Game releases and regional reporting
37-year-old male winter backpacker from Athol, Massachusetts
Kenneth Holmes, 37, departed on a solo winter backpacking trip on January 12, 2004 from Lincoln Woods and was reported overdue on January 14. His body was recovered on January 15 near South Twin Mountain at 4,600 feet elevation; the Medical Examiner determined the cause of death was hypothermia due to environmental exposure. Rescue personnel noted behavioral signs consistent with advanced hypothermia, including removal of clothing and erratic movement, during a period of extreme cold with wind chills reported as low as -94°F on Mt. Washington.