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I'm not worried about these "smart shelters". "Won an architecture award" is another way of saying "totally impractical and will never be built." Notice the snow scene: no drifts along the cabin, and it's sitting comfortably above all the snow. Obviously access during summer is via ladder...

How do you even see 400 feet in Breakheart reservation, other than in winter? Was the coyote on the opposite side of the pond? Or somebody typed an extra "0" after "40"? That she saw it at all is a sign they're getting bolder. I saw one crossing my street yesterday around noon, carrying off...

There's nothing wrong with eating glcuose. It's only a matter of cost, or, relatedly, marketing. There are plenty of alternatives, such as sucrose. Digestion of sucrose (or other sugars) is close enough to instantaneous that the specific sugar doesn't matter for athletes. In fact, athletes...

It's still too early in the season for momma moose to drive their yearlings away, but moose will be venturing out of their winter hideouts starting about now, looking for new shoots, mostly under cover of twilight. Mid-may a few years ago, this guy and his momma were grazing on fir...

That's outside the inner bowl of tuckerman, right above HoJo's on the Boott Spur side. http://timefortuckerman.com/gifs/tucker2.jpg http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=44.25749,-71.29436&z=15&t=T&marker0=44.25749%2C-71.29436%2C0.6%20km%20N%20of%20Boott%20Spur%20NH

Monument mountain is worth a visit - walking along the top of white cliffs feels like a miniature Gunks. The views are very good, but be warned that the hill is very small. The normal loop is under two miles. Outside your requested geography, but not too far, and offering a number of...

Rats are easier to deal with than bears - keeping all your food in a cooler will do the trick. Just have a plan for keeping your trash protected too - I doubt the park provides anything as the rule is carry-in, carry-out.

I believe the campground is bring-your-own-water, so bring plenty. Other than that, did you have any specific questions? Bring sunscreen and bug spray and toys for playing in the water. I beleive it is possible to bring a kayak or similar small craft on the ferry, check with them in...

In terms of longevity, this thread ranks eighth among still-active threads (at least one reply within the past year). Here are the top 5: WMNF Forest Road Status Started by darren, 03-20-2006 07:04 PM Last Post: 11-12-2017 08:17 AM Real Men Don’t Wear Skirts! Or Do They?????? Started by...

I'd post a corrected link, but it's faster to copy the entire report, from "AJ": It's been nearly six years since I've been on Mt Tom, but I don't recall any popular bushwhacks. The official trail is less than half a mile. It's a good trail for slackpacking if you don't mind sharing your...

Western cats in the region are a certainty. Many of them are escaped pets (some from South America), but wild cats do wander continental distances, e.g.: https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/97/5/1435/2219047 :

Clif bars *will* freeze, unless they've changed the formula recently (In recent years I've filed them under "sick of that", and also under "too much fiber for winter or for above treeline"). While at home packing them, you can press them with a dull edge to pre-separate them into thinner pieces...

Most of my stand-bys have been covered upthread. For my PBJ/Nutella sandwiches, I like to use a non-standard bread that resists squishing. Usually that's "Wasa crispbread" (sold in the diet aisle, be careful which flavor as some are very high in fiber); sometimes it's simply a bagel (which, as...

The IceBox is not worthwhile unless you're planning to spend several days in one spot. It's less overall work than a quinzee - less sweat, less getting wet crawling into a mound of snow - and it's probably a bit faster too, but it's still going to take an hour or two, depending on snow...

Just repeating what Metsky said about snow. In March 2016 we borrowed a car in Vegas, went to visit Zion and Bryce. Got rained on in Zion (notably turning the dusty chains on Angels Landing to slime). Caught lovely light flurries on the rim trail of Bryce. Wished for microspikes on the canyon...

I think I know what's causing confusion. You're looking at newenglandtrailconditions.com/nh/ , right? "Bushwhacked" is talking about VFTT's own trail conditions section http://www.vftt.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?12-Northeast-Trail-Conditions where there's been nothing since December.

I see what Bushwhacked sees: Two posts in New Hampshire (three temporarily, since I made one as a test and then deleted it), no [recent] posts at all in the other Trail Conditions sections (not counting the two sticky posts copied in all of them). Old threads are still there, you can change...

Northern presis: these depend on good weather. Doing all three peaks is feasible but it depends on your pace. In winter I'd be fine doing Adams and Madison together (Valley Way, or Air Line if the weather is really good) but I'd want to wait for a perfect day and get up early if I was going...

About $100.05. Goggles vary in quality and in price but the two are not tightly correlated. I like goggles with lots of room inside the glass - the type that claim you can wear eyeglasses inside them. The extra airspace, and particularly the extra ventilation, makes them less likely to...

From the photo, that was at Crystal Cascade, half a mile from the trailhead (and well below Tuckerman Ravine, despite the photo caption). A good sign: they're willing to hike despite the cold, but wise enough to pick an achievable objective.