Search results

Of course, I wasn't particularly well-prepared. No bivy equipment to speak of, lackadaisical preparation (lack of fitness and, notably, failure to carefully study the map in advance, with regard to bailout options), late start, terrible food/water management -- plenty of suboptimal decisions...

That was me. https://www.summitpost.org/extending-the-pemi-loop/311203 Sorry for the self-promotion and thread diversion, but I figure it's de minimis after page 4 of a thread...

Seems unlikely. In the past the 4000 footer committee has articulated their policy for making changes to the list. Can't find the reference now but IIRC the essence of it is that they will keep the list stable unless and until new maps definitely prove that the list is wrong. (For example...

2020 saw a lot of travel, but not a lot of peak bagging. I think my single biggest hike was when I attempted to simply walk into Mordor during the lockdown. I walked all day and didn't even reach treeline, decided to try again after the roads were open. Lovely area, have to go back and do the...

You guys have been doing very well so far - you'd all get "A"s in a 1L classroom. But here DayTrip makes a classic mistake: "at least in my mind..." Many, many people have an idea of what the law *should* be or how it could be interpreted in a way that makes the most sense to them, but that...

Yes, I was hiking that day. I recall a 35-45 mph wind forecast for whichever town(s) I checked (Lincoln? Conway? Berlin?) ; the high summit forecast (I barely peeked, it was obviously not a high summit day for me) was more like 100mph. Actual peak gust on Mt Washington on Jan 23 was 119 mph...

The "restriction" is that you promise to self-isolate for ten days upon return to massachusetts, or until you have the negative result of a covid test . There's no enforcement whatsoever, but if caught violating quarantine you would face a fine of $500 per day. Towns near me in Massachusetts...

Definitely colder than yesterday, with enough of a breeze to have a strong chilling effect even below treeline. Stayed low today. All the parking lots in Crawford Notch were full.

Cherry Mtn Trail lot on rte 114 was not well-plowed, shallow but slippery snow. Snow tires and/or 4WD recommended (My car couldn't make it up the ramp without chains, even in reverse), but no clearance problems yet. Trail up to the snowmobile road was a very firm, double-wide snowshoe track...

Several years back I dropped my pack on my way to the Mt Tom summit. Came back to find a pine marten sniffing around. Followed him for a while but he was too quick, I couldn't get a decent photo, and couldn't follow off-trail since my snowshoes were on my pack. Soon discovered the wily beast...

What are you basing this on? I would guess that a significant majority of hikers on Mt Washington are staying in towns like Conway and driving up rte 16 to Pinkham Notch, rather than detouring to the Cog base. Certainly Lion's Head trail has been much more crowded than Amonoosuc any time I've...

I generally don't carry any pain medication at all. There are none that I've found effective for sprained-ankle or higher levels of pain, without either requiring very unsafe doses, or rendering me dangerously slow-witted, or both. (And for any lower level of pain, medication is not needed.)...

No, not really. Leg injury == carry out == eight or more people at a time carrying the litter, preferably in shifts, so that's 16 to 20 right there. If you're not sure where they are exactly, you might send teams up multiple trails to make sure you find them. Teams of two there, minimum just...

I think Sierra and HikerBrian may be thinking about two different time frames. I got the impression that Sierra meant they should have turned around no later than when they first reached the summit of Little Haystack, when conditions were poor-ish (but still hikable) and they should have known...

A five-dollar fee to enter the only building with bathrooms? What could possibly go wrong?

I don't currently own any vests, myself. They can work for winter running, or chopping wood, or cross-country skiing, when you're counting on stable weather and a high rate of heat production, and you'd sweat if you had anything too substantial on your arms. For sitting around camp, or while...

Nope. You can wash (gentle) and tumble dry. Only worry is that a lot of down garments are a built so light they're not very robust. Tiny bits of down can leak through the seams during ordinary use. Should be fine for years, but the more you manhandle them the more fluff you'll lose. An...

That puts a bit of perspective on things. I didn't want to read too much into the article which clearly wasn't based on much more than a press release, but I got the distinct feeling the new ATV "destination" wasn't all that well planned out as a money-making business. I suspected some of the...

This one reads a little differently. _Where you'll find me_ had aspects of a mystery -- there were unknown details, and there was the central theme of "what drove her so hard?". _The Last Traverse_ is more concrete, following the hike and the rescue effort practically minute by minute...

In general, state law will include some catch-all clause whereby any violation of any executive order, if the order is issued under color of a declared emergency, is subject to some kind of penalty (usually a fine, whose amount hasn't increased in decades). I was curious what New Hampshire law...