Mount Carrigain

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Mount Carrigain
Elevation 1,433 metres (4,700 feet)
Location New Hampshire, USA
Prominence 683 m (2,240 ft)
Coordinates 44°05′36″N 071°26′51″W / 44.09333, -71.4475Coordinates: 44°05′36″N 071°26′51″W / 44.09333, -71.4475
Topo map USGS Mount Carrigain
First ascent 1869, George L. Vose[1]
Listing New Hampshire 4000-footers
#27 New England Fifty Finest

Mount Carrigain is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. The mountain is named after Phillip Carrigain, NH Secretary of State (1805–10), and is on the south side of the Pemigewasset Wilderness, the source of the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River in the heart of the White Mountains, between Franconia Notch and Crawford Notch. Carrigain is flanked to the northeast beyond Carrigain's Vose Spur by Mount Anderson and Mount Lowell across Carrigain Notch, and to the southwest by Mount Hancock.

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The south side of Mount Carrigain drains into Sawyer River, thence into the Saco River, which drains into the Gulf of Maine at Saco, Maine. The east side of Mt. Carrigain drains into Carrigain Brook, thence into Sawyer River. The north side of Carrigain drains into the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River, a tributary of the Merrimack River, which drains into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport, Massachusetts. The west side of Carrigain drains into the Carrigain Branch of the East Branch of the Pemigewasset.

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Vose Spur
Elevation 1,177 metres (3,862 feet)
Prominence 68 m (222 ft)
Coordinates 44°6.18′N 71°26.08′W / 44.103, -71.43467
Listing #79 New England 100 Highest

Vose Spur is a subpeak of Mount Carrigain, named after George L. Vose.

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