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One February day in the early 90's a friend and I had done a couple of routes in Huntington and decided to go up to the summit after the...

Descending into a view is one of the great joys of walking in the mountains. I make a lot of route decisions on Mt Desert Island...

Yes, the AMC has included Owls Head Path on its Franconia topo map since the 1969 edition of the guidebook, but the USFS has refused to...

I haven’t verified this, but according to Alt National Park Service: Alaska lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging...

True dat. But I do not think that Owls Head Path via the slide is an official trail either.

Not going to happen anytime to soon as most of this Herd path lies within a Wilderness Area and would take an act of Congress to change it,

I agree, as I only like ascending and descending the Brutus Rooney route when the slide is covered with snow and/or ice.

Well, I did not see him cut the trees but I heard it on good authority from multiple sources at the time. My own huckleberry story was...

Yup, I think that was likely John Bouchard, whom rumor had it was responsible for cutting the trees to open up the launch area.

When I did Black Pond about 11 or 12 years ago, it was a pure map and compass bushwhack. There may have been a herd path then but we...

Ditto for the Black Pond bushwhack, which is essentially a trail now.

Thanks for jogging my memory, as I have the Washburn Tuckerman’s map somewhere, just need to find it.

And his map of Tuckerman Ravine. An important complement to the Mt Washington map.

Excellent summary. Another term used for anomalies is departures.

That's exactly what happens. Further, they aren't comparing average temperatures in different locations to each other, they are...