A demanding traverse through some of the High Peaks' most dramatic terrain, this fifteen-kilometer route threads the narrow defile between Wallface Mountain and the MacIntyre Range. Red disks mark the way from the Adirondack Loj trailhead to the junction with the Preston Ponds Trail near the pass itself, where yellow disks take over for the descent to Upper Works. The trail is known less for summit-bagging than for the pass's towering cliffs and the sense of remoteness that settles over hikers moving through what remains one of the region's wilder corridors.
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