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Here is a youtube video that names a few: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YD-WFoLW50, but quite frankly I would not want to buy any one of them. Instead, I would focus on getting a good quality lightweight sleeping bag and I would think how to attach lightweight elastic to my bag and run it...

I guess we shouldn't expect challenges to this record for at least a year as 2020 is a leap year! :)

I forgot to mention in my prior post that maps relying on user-contributed data are also subject to vandalism, so that also should be kept in mind when planning.

Maps can be quite different than what really is the current state of the trails. New trails get added, existing ones get rerouted, old ones get abandoned and fall out of use. For example, I have already modified AT location on OSM several times in places where it was rerouted. Regarding the...

I love maps and over the years I have built up a nice collection, but like JToll, I no longer use paper maps for driving. I still carry hiking paper maps with me but I find that I use them less and less for planning. "Obsolete" is a strong word, but I have a feeling that paper maps and...

Printed maps & guidebooks is a declining business. I bet by now all non-profits that relied on sales of hiking maps realize that they won't get too much revenue from them in the long run. There is still a lot of value in the information contained on these maps and in these books but the...

That's still a level above the silent treatment. :)

I hope your report goes well beyond greeting customs! Have a great trip!

I bet there is a good number of hikers now who have never carried a paper map on a trai or owned a standalone camera. The convenience of a smartphone seems to outweigh safety concerns for many.

Perhaps that would be one more good reason to go and do some hiking in the Alps - a friend suggested that we do Tour du Mont Blanc ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_du_Mont_Blanc ) but given that it's 110 miles in distance and I am a slow hiker it seems like I would need more than a week to...

Did you take a picture of the snake? There are several species in this general area, and we have seen timber rattle snakes too, so it's good idea to be careful. Here is a picture from a hike that I did with my sons and their friend in Harriman State Park back in 2015:

I tried to mentally go over our hikes last week and I think we always got a reply while hiking in the Whites (it's just that most of the time we said "hi" first), while Acadia NP was a different kind of ball game, and that's where we got the silent treatment. This might be just one more...

Last week my wife joined me on a couple of hikes and she pointed out to me that many hikers either did not say anything when passing us, or when we said "Hi!" some of them replied back while others said nothing. I have never paid much attention to this but my wife is used to Polish hiking...

I suspect drones can be a lot more useful if they carry some device that can ping lost person's cell phone and home in on its location in order to narrow down the search area. I'm not sure if that is technically possible but it would be even better if such device could trigger lost person's...

Somehow I have a feeling that this was not a typical family hike. While we don't have all the details, I suspect the grandfather was the enabler thanks to whom the boys could bag highest peaks in the area. Their hiking at different paces was probably part of the deal where summiting for the...

After reading Union Leader article I don't have any issues related to family separating (intentional at the urging of grandfather) or Mr. Clark's age (hiking daily 20 miles probably keeps him in better shape than most hikers going up Mt. Washington.) I do wonder however about three things...

Nice! I'm still working on just visiting all 50 states, not to mention hiking their high points! :)

I have not heard about this case before, so I tried looking it up. I presume this is the case of David Sharp mentioned here: https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2012/5-everest-horror-stories/ If so, then according to the article: "Forty climbers passed him that day, and although many stopped to...

Several years ago we were staying in North Carolina near Asheville and after scouting the area we decided to "hike" up Mt. Mitchel by following Old Mitchel Trail ( https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=7370363&map=16!35.7574!-82.2709 ). We had several kids, teenagers and adults in our...

We have seen some leaches in ADK but did not pay much attention until last year when we were doing a loop with a couple of small lakes and we decided to stop on a rock for lunch and possibly a swim. All was fine until my wife stepped off the kayak and a leach tried to attached to her leg. When...