Three 1/2 day, 24 mile backpacking trip. Day 1 - 2.5 miles, to plateau half way up the Slippery Brook Trail. Day 2 - 7.5 miles up and over the Baldfaces, down the other side into the wild river wilderness to the Perkins Notch Shelter campsite. Day 3 - leave backpacks in camp and hike with day packs roughly 3 miles and 2300 vertical feet up to Carter Dome, the 9th highest mountain in NH. Return to the same camp. Day 4 - roughly 7 miles generally downhill along the Wild River to the Wild River Campground.