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Just back from a stellar 5 day camping/hiking trip to Maine, where I picked up Big Moose, Coburn, White Cap, Baker and Doubletop. Couldn’t have asked for better weather and conditions! :D Leaves me with just Kibby and Boundary Bald to complete the list. Probably won’t get back to Maine until...

Fantastic photo trip report! Thanks for sharing. I hiked about 97 percent of the way to the summit of Jackson Peak a number of years ago before turning back on hard packed snow on the summit ridge due to having inadequate footwear that July day. Still a great memory. Beautiful area.

Nice hike, great views from the tower. Lots of folks out enjoying the trail today. Obviously freshly cut. One correction though. The graphic on the Channel 10 story indicates that the trailhead is on Route 8 … 21.8 miles from Northway Exit 25. It is not. It is 12.3 miles east (“north” on...

No big deal it seems for the northern Northeast mountains. Was on the coast of Maine until today and a bit concerned that Henri might fall into the Floyd/Irene category and wreck my Maine P2K hiking plans a few weeks down the road. But it just didn’t push far enough inland. :)

Thanks. Been waiting for this to officially open up since my last “new” fire-tower peak … Stillwater Mountain way out in the boonies. Gonna hit it up on Friday … hopefully with the wife and kiddo. :D

Nice report! Always dig your contributions, Spencer.

Have had a few in the 17-18 hour category. A 2005 Presi traverse and a 2006 Great Range traverse (see nartreb’s post) both came in around 17 hours. My 2015 Denali summit day was also pretty epic ... left high camp mid-to-late morning (can’t remember the exact hour) and rolled back in somewhere...

Somewhere in the space/time continuum, what used to be peakbagging became list-bagging and peakbagging became just summiting any old mountain whether it is on a list or not. I say that only as a preface to what I continue to think is the best essay on the psychology of Northeast “peakbaggers”...

^^^ My current plan is to start from the south. https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/maine/doubletop-mountain-trail Would be interested to read experiences others have had.

Long drive indeed. Fortunately, most of my remaining P2Ks are in the general neighborhood of Greenville so I’m gonna set up shop on the shores of Moosehead Lake for four nights or so and then head up to Baxter for Doubletop. Probably won’t grab all of my remaining peaks on this trip even...

Yes. Keep telling myself I’m done with lists after each list completion and yet I just keep on doing it. Hic. Current project: Northeast P2Ks. Seven to go, all in Maine, with a weeklong post Labor Day trip on the docket.

Nice report. Love that entire area. Lots of great peaks. Good luck if you choose to pursue other state highpoints. It’s an addicting hobby for sure.

Thread needs a healthy dose of State Troopers doing the State Trooper thing. Maine State Trooper issues speeding ticket

Blackhead Range, circa 2018, on a beautiful spring day. We crossed paths I think between Black Dome and Blackhead and I recognized you from one of your library speeches. But alas, I introduced myself by my real name, which you clearly didn’t recognize, yet you were still nice enough to chat...

As to the question in the OP, that’s the first “official” hiking themed plate I’ve seen in NY. Really a big push to draw people away from that cluster of 46 peaks in the Adirondacks. The Catskill fire tower challenge (only 5 peaks) has turned out to be way more popular than I envisioned it...

The one on the left is seen regularly in my driveway. The one on the right ... dunno about that guy. :p

No matter where I go, I expect a parade or at least something akin to everyone enthusiastically saying “Norm” when he walks into Cheers. Anything less is a disappointment. Seriously though, I have never had an issue of any type with either the courteousness or professionalism of the staff I’ve...

A little more detail including the identity of the hiker ... Robert Gerity, said to be an avid hiker who died doing what he loved. https://www.hudsonvalley360.com/news/greenecounty/dec-hiker-found-dead-in-greene-county/article_a43c039d-8c85-53b8-9047-d8e942fd7ac8.html

... and just because it’s not technical hiking/climbing terrain doesn’t mean it’s inaccurate to call the extrication (recovery) technical. Ropes and other equipment were required for it, thus making it technical.

It’s a regular old hiking trail. Nothing particularly noteworthy. Steepish in parts in the upper reaches but still solidly class 1 ... was up it with with my 10-year-old a couple of summers ago. I think the extrication was probably made more complicated by the melt and refreeze cycles of the...