Mount Waumbek is a

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located in Coos County,

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. The mountain is part of the Pliny Range of the White Mountains. Waumbek is flanked to the northeast by Mount Weeks, to the west by Mount Starr King, and to the southeast by Pliny Mountain (1099 m). Waumbek is drained by various brooks into the

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, and thence into the

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and

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. Waumbek is one of the

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's "

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" and is located inside the

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. The summit can be reached from

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via the Starr King Trail, a segment of the

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, from Jefferson village. The Starr King Trail climbs moderately to the summit of Mount Starr King where there used to be a lodge and then across the ridge to the wooded summit of Mount Waumbek. On some older maps it is shown as "Pliny Major" in the uninhabited township of

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. A colony of gregarious Canada jays lives near the summit of Starr King year-round. During the early 1960s, the northern flank of Waumbek was under consideration for a

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to be named Willard Basin Ski Area, but the project was terminated and the land conveyed to the federal government.Lancaster, NH, Planning Board: Plan of Willis Basin Ski Proposal, 1961

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PeakBagger.com: Mt. Waumbek

AMC: Mount Waumbek

Willard Basin Ski Area - New England's Cancelled Ski Areas
Mountains of New Hampshire Mountains of Coös County, New Hampshire New England Four-thousand footers {{NewHampshire-geo-stub

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