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AMC website financials state about $36 mil in operating expenses for 2023, with 53% for staffing, so closer to $19 mil for salaries?

Good article on the AMC huts by Miles Howard, former hut croo, in Boston Globe Magazine this past Sunday. Unfortunately behind paywall...

The report on the NHF&G site says that they were found near Eagle Pass on the Greenleaf Trail after they missed the turn for the Bridle...

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-01-19/winter-hiker-rescue-new-hampshire-fish-and-game-franconia-blizzard "...Zienkiewicz had never...

Maybe Greenland will be renamed once we take it over?

The short report is worth the read. Here is an excerpt: Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius)...

Then what would you say if 2025 is cooler than 2024?

And some winter hikers have been found both dead and alive after their trail running shoes have been torn off and could not be found...

Pretty sure "barefoot" in a winter hiking report is "bareboot" being auto-corrected when people post reports from their phones.

I think that B the Hiker’s point is that the CURRENT year, 2024, was the warmest year on record, which is not always the case if you...

Edited typos: Yup, the parasitic bare-boot post-holers, as the owner of NETC calls them, the scourge of winter recreation in the...

We don't file winter reports on NETC any more for many of our snowshoe hikes, in particular those local to us, unless it's for a very...

First chance to get out to camp in the snow this year so wanted to do a short and safe shakedown. Well actually I wanted to hike three...

Those snowmobilers are A-OK. :)

I'm a trailwork trip leader for AMC, and I used to work for EMS. (You could describe my term at EMS as "post-classical," not quite the...