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Mount Doublehead

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Topo map
  
USGS Jackson

Prominence
  
293 m

Parent range
  
White Mountains

Elevation
  
931 m

Mountain range
  
White Mountains

Mount Doublehead httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumbd

Location
  
Carroll County, New Hampshire, U.S.

Similar
  
Kearsarge North, North Moat Mountain, Mount Webster, Sandwich Mountain, Black Cap

Mount Doublehead is a twin-peaked mountain in eastern New Hampshire, United States. It is located in the town of Jackson, Carroll County, in the eastern White Mountains. North Doublehead has an elevation of 3,053 feet (930.5 m) above sea level, while South Doublehead has an elevation of 2,939 ft (895.8 m).

Map of Mount Doublehead, Jackson, NH 03846, USA

Doublehead stands within the watershed of the Saco River, which drains into the Gulf of Maine. The eastern and southern slopes of Doublehead drain into the East Branch of the Saco River. The northwest side of Doublehead drains into Great Brook, thence into Wildcat Brook, the Ellis River, and into the Saco.

In 1934, the American composer Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000), who frequently climbed the White Mountains during his youth, wrote a composition for piano entitled Fog on Mount Double Head (Op. 1, no. 2).

South of the White Mountains, Doublehead Mountain (elevation 2,158 ft/657.8 m) is found in Sandwich, New Hampshire (also in Carroll County), in the Squam Mountains overlooking Squam Lake.

References

Mount Doublehead Wikipedia