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    White Mountains Trail Collective?

    OK, how does a trail nonprofit group form in 2019, raise $475,000 and hire a convicted embezzler to manage the money and then be surprised if she pockets some for herself. Has anyone ever heard of the White Mountains Trail Collective...
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    After the rescue.

    Last weekend we had a random summit encounter with a coworker of the young Portsmouth man recently rescued from Lake of the clouds. The hiker is still at risk of finger and toe amputation, and has significant loss of feeling in his arms due to frostbite. Obviously we hope he has the best...
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    We did some fun trails in Acadia over the long weekend.

    First meet up group camping since before Covid. Now I remember the good and less good of these group events. On Saturday we decided to find some caves Jen read about in a FB post. All she knew was the Giant Slide trail. So after I bought my coming of age lifetime National Park pass, we took the...
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    Solo hiking a badge of honor?

    I know a lot of us have hiked solo and some hike solo almost exclusively. Most solo hikers I know enjoy the solitude, and ability to get away from it all. Am I imagining a new thing where solo hiking is part of the challenge? A lot of FB posts say they did a single day, solo...
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    Thank you, Dr. Mohammed Ellozy

    This is random timing but I saw the name pop up in this site's related threads and the thread was in 2023. In 2015, I decided to treat my post- divorce malaise by upping my hiking game from an occasional jaunt up Monadnock to the White Mountains. I found his website, it was perfect. Dr...
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    Presi traverse 8/20/23

    We got our Presi traverse on Sunday. The higher summits forecast said crazy winds in the morning decreasing as the day went on. Once we got above treeline on our first mountain, Madison, the wind was fierce, the rocks were wet, we were crawling. We considered bailing out, but decided to go up...
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    Hi Everyone,

    For some reason I thought I was a member here when I first started serious hiking in 2014. Started with Monadnock, in winter 2015 started the Whites. Did a lot with Random hikers, and Four seasons. Now working on redlining. Choose JRCinNH as an email quite a while ago and it stuck. JRC is my...
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