Title: Jewell Trail - White Mountains, New Hampshire
Description: Mount Monroe (left) from the Jewell Trail in Thompson and Meserve's Purchase in the New Hampshire White Mountains at sunset on a cloudy summer day. The Jewell Trail is named for Sergeant Winfield S. Jewell. He was an Army Signal Corps observer on Mount Washington from 1878-1880. And on April 12, 1884, while on the Greely expedition to the Arctic, Jewell died of starvation. Out of the 25 men on the three year Greeley expedition (1881–1884), only six survived.
Location: Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, New Hampshire, United States
Copyright: ©2009 ScenicNH Photography LLC / Erin Paul Donovan
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