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Ditto while doing yard work in Thornton on Sunday, and some even got inside my headnet. ☹️ Escaped the black flies while skiing Hillman’s Highway in Tuckerman’s today, but they were waiting for us in the Pinkham parking lot on our return late this afternoon.

What continues to amaze me is how less eroded these trails are to the less popular peaks.

I also noticed that yesterday. But site back up today and looks like the summit temperature flatlined at 10 F overnight until about 6 am Thursday when the climb upwards began.

Agreed. But do you mean Owls Cliff? Years ago friend and I spotted a vehicle on Rte 302, then began hike at the end of Sawyer River road for a CCW route past Sawyer Pond to Brunel Trail. Hot day and we had to ration water as we did not carry enough.

Welcome, Darby. Yowser, that is lot of running miles!

Back-to-back litter carry outs on Saturday night, with second one on Lafayette’s Bridal Path. Did not get home until 12:30 am. The nearly six months off since Emily Sotelo’s search and recovery in November was unexpected and a relief.

I guess that I draw the line at owning and maintaining a vehicle. I think that the term ‘dirt bag’ originated with big wall climbers living in somewhat squalor at Camp Four in Yosemite Valley in the 1960s/1970s. Fred Becky was not part of that crowd as instead he traveled back and forth across...

Funny that you mention psychosocial with paleoclimate data, as there is indeed an entire area of scientific research related to psychological impacts on people by global warming (aka, climate change). There was a time when one‘s mention of paleoclimate on this board could get one suspended. Ask...

Impressive run, and a fine video. When I climbed Damnation gully several times in the 1970s, I never imagined that it would be eventually skiable. Central gully, yes, but not Damnation and Pinnacle. 🙂

Cool. You have moved this book up in my to read stack. 🙂

I am not a statistician either, but I work with them. The statisticians that work with me on paleoclimate data would call the above attached graph an objective correlation (note, not necessarily causation) rather than a subjective extrapolation. The statistical term extrapolation would apply to...

Kimball Rexford’s TrailsNH.com has a section on road status that is crowd-sourced and fairly up to date.

I do not think that Fred Becky was ever a dirt bag, although no doubt a mooch, as he proved to me by eating about everything in my refrigerator when he was visiting one of my students at U Colorado’s Mountain Research Station one summer. Fred had met my student when visiting a climbing area in...

I can confirm that Zealand Road all the way and Gale River Loop Road were open on my back from Tuckerman’s on 11 May, but Bear Notch Road and Haystack Road still closed, as are both Sugarloaf campgrounds. Bear Notch Road should be good for bicycling right now without the vehicle traffic.

Yeah, I was there with probably 30 others on my SAR team and we were pleading to put your patient in our litter from the get go as we can move a litter much faster than a hobbling hiker. My SAR team spends a lot of time assisting NHF&G on Moosilauke, usually in the dark, so we know the mountain...

Barnes Field is as I wrote, ‘’just north of Dolly Copp Campground.”

I very much disagree. Misdirecting hikers onto the wrong trails exacerbates the problems we already have on the summit of Lafayette (i.e., sending hikers north towards Garfield on the Franconia Ridge Trail does not get hikers back to Lafayette Campground where they begin the CCW Franconia loop...

USFS Hancock Campground just west of the Lincoln Woods parking lot on the Kanc and Barnes Field (group camping) just north of Dolly Copp Campground at the north end of Pinkham Notch on Rte 16 are open all year. Back in the day, VftT held many “gatherings” at Barnes Field in the “off season,”...

Done, a one time annual donation.

Ok, many thanks! I did not realize that getting rid of ads was an option. Will look into making a donation.