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Have you discovered one? I stumbled upon one quite unexpectedly. Couldn't see it until right on top of it. Not a conventional cave, but a large joint fracture perhaps ten feet in height. A friend and I went up there one winter, clambered into the depths and spent the night. Large enough we...

How curious that some now climb Boundary from Canada. When my friend and I stood on top, we looked across the border and saw a nearby, circa 3800-foot summit. We crossed into Canada and climbed it that same day. There was a huge clear cut on its western/southern slopes, reminding us of the...

The summer of '75 found me in Maine, peakbagging the Hundred Highest. My physical condition was excellent. During a 19-day period I climbed 21 peaks. The first part of the trip, a friend and I climbed together. We managed well without a car, hitchhiking and backpacking from area to area. By...

I know what crampons are, but not the "spikes" and "micro spikes" that are mentioned on the forums. What are they, when did people start using them, under what conditions, where to get them? Photos? I have seen folks using a kind of creeper on easy snow (not ice), amounting to wires that wrap...

Many years ago I bushwhacked up Mt Equinox (southern Vermont). I had never climbed the mountain, just had a topo and went for it. I was aware there was a summit road but its location was inconvenient to my starting point in the town of Manchester. The bushwhacking was pleasant, and fairly...