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Yep. I actually had a Facebook memory pop up today of my last trip into the Wild River Wilderness. I went in the day after some heavy rains that year. USGS gage was 2000cfs at the time I left trail head and dropped to about 600-800cfs during the course of the day. Was cool to see my videos of...

I saw "Record Jet Suit" and the photo and immediately thought of the next wave of 48 4k peakbaggers. "I did the list in 38 minutes"..... 😣

Finally perk up those river gauges a bit. DRY out there right now....

I'm usually the opposite. I obsess and pack everything the day before and get in the car from 2AM-5AM for most hikes. When that day before has a Bruins game, is a FRI, or the night before the start of a holiday weekend results can vary.... :)

On my last overnight, I had gone out for lunch with my wife the day before, and then dinner (and many cocktails) so I scrambled to get my bear canister packed for 2 nights and an early wake up call for the drive up. Let's just say doing that drunk was a bad idea. Was pretty interesting to see...

I LOVE when the trails are overgrown. Pushing through scrub and or hobblebush encroaching onto the trail I find quite enjoyable. Feels like you are really out there exploring. One of my favorite parts of wilderness areas is that lack of maintenance. One of my favorite sections of the Midstate...

Great Gulf is magical. The walk in from the trail head up to the split for Wamsutta/Six Husbands is just stunning. All the deep pools, the waterfalls, the moss. It gets a little sketchier to follow from there up the headwall but it is still quite stunning. Makes me want to get in the car seeing...

I love that perspective of Madison from there. It's like a volcano looming over the landscape of some far away place.

It seems like one of the things I fuss with the most hiking is where to keep those little things like sunglasses, reading glasses, phone, etc. so they're accessible while keeping your pack on. Can't seem to get a solution I like. Seems like there is always some sort of compromise no matter how I...

It was worse than the last time I did it (I think it was 2019 but I forget. I go in there just about every Summer). Many sections I hiked that time are completely gone now. It's too bad but it is just to close to the river. All the tributary brooks that feed it cause some pretty severe problems...

"His hiking companions had left him behind when Hejazi began struggling with the pace of his companions." Probably needs some new friends.....

This guy has his work cut out for him. An impossible challenge possibly. THU I went up the Highwater Trail from the parking lot. I had done sections of it from around Shelburne ford area up to Black angel intersection but never the whole stretch from Rte 113. The first maybe 4 miles or so was...

I hiked up there yesterday and today and did a good portion of the road heading out today. I was encouraged overall. All the bridges I passed were intact and had no runoff on the edges. There are some sections of "aggressive washboarding" but nothing I wouldn't traverse in my CrossTrek. 99% of...

2 of my favorite areas up there. Solid 4-4.5 hour drive for me depending on traffic.

I wonder if there is any kind of long range plan to divert people into areas like this? I think it was last Summer I was cruising up the Wild River Trail and met up with a USFS volunteer who was doing a "people count" survey (SUN morning around 10AM or thereabouts). Kind of blew my mind that...

There's plenty of options for sure. I just really love following the Wild River that first 2-3 miles from the campground with all the pools and viewpoints and easy grades. Then I'll hike up and out one of the ridges and zig-zag around doing whatever catches my curiosity, finishing at the river...

That is a great little campground but with so few sites even if they were all booked 7 days a week that can't be a whole heck of a lot of money as you suggest. Getting it reopened does not seem like a big priority at the moment....or maybe they're just getting funds approved for a major...

Neither do I but I appreciate when companies make an actual, legitimate effort to make the world a better place to live in, not just greenwashing or virtue signaling or whatever buzzword you want to throw in there for $$$. And when it is local and you know the money you spend is being re-spent...

I'm not questioning the reality of US firms operating needs in the world today nor do I have any issue with it. I appreciate the Burgeon story as I have seen it on their website: high quality products, ethical, local company. I will (and have) paid extra for local products that do such things...

There are probably more peakbaggers now in the age of social media but I'd bet many of the people who are climbing it are just doing it "because". I had climbed it first at age 17 because we camped in the area and it was the biggest mountain around. Probably did it 10-20 times in my 20's - 40's...