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Thanks to everyone who replied, I haven’t logged in for a couple days and didn’t realize I’d have so many responses LOL. It looks like Gaia and CalTopo are the ones to try. I haven’t used AllTrails as anything but a topo map to plan routes when I’m going cross-country and to get an estimate of...

AllTrails doesn’t support USGS topo maps any more, and I don’t like any of their other options at all. I also have OnX, and while its default topo map is better than AllTrails’ it’s still not as good as USGS. So, does anyone have an app that uses USGS maps to recommend?

I always liked the Peterborough store best. Concord and N. Conway were bigger but for some reason the atmosphere at Peterborough was different.

My Marmot Hammer’s poles are internal, with small Velcro straps bonded to the seams that hold the poles in place. One of those straps and its 3” backing piece came off a few years ago and Marmot gave me website credit for the MSRP of the tent at its time of mfr, based on the serial number. I...

As far as gear goes I don’t think I’ll ever be set. Snowshoes break or I just want to try out a new model even though I need to take my shoes off to count the pairs I already have (I’m thinking of a pair of Faber Mountain Masters this winter but have to get rid of some first), clothes wear out...

A couple winters ago I was snowshoeing to see if I could get to a pond cross-country without driving about 4 miles down a very slippery logging road (I couldn’t.) Along the way I stopped to take pics, and when I got to the spot where I realized I’d have to turn around, my phone wasn’t in my...

My favorite so far was seeing what I thought was a bobcat but was later told was most likely a lynx as they’re pushing bobcat out of the area. I’d just come around a bend in a trail, the wind was in my face and I’d just registered the cat in the trail when it disappeared into the vegetation. It...

Holy cow, I’ve never met him but I’ve read and enjoyed many of his posts. He seemed to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the White Mountains, and definitely sounded like someone you could learn something from regardless of how much you know. Not seeing his informative posts will be strange. RIP...

Either replace the caps (MSR has them) or the O-rings inside the caps. Viton works better than nitrile for fuels.

The first part of this week was brutal up here. Tuesday morning my first job was breaking down ten 11R24.5 truck tires by hand since our tire machine motor **** the bed a couple weeks ago, and when I finished around 0715 my clothes were soaked with sweat from my shoulders to my knees. I felt and...

Out hiking on some overgrown logging roads, I stopped to filter some water and shoot a selfie video of me whining about how I wished it was winter. All of a sudden, 25 paces away (measured afterward) she appeared. I still had the phone in front of my face so I got a quick pic then started...

Yes, I enjoyed hiking with the people in “my” group, perhaps because there were several single women around my age with whom I obviously had at least one interest in common. I even suggested that I and one of the others in the slow group would volunteer to be leaders so we could form 2 separate...

I used to belong to a couple Meetup hiking groups that did, or tried to, but the hike leaders tended to have thru-hiker builds and paces and basically said “too bad. Keep up.” when those of us who didn’t go 2.5+mph complained. So we tended to split into 2 groups that saw each other for short...

I actually do have a GI MOLLE II pack that I bought quite a few years ago for winter use, it’s fairly comfortable for not having an adjustable torso length but is overkill for what I do. The USMC ILBE pack (basically an Arcteryx Bora from what I’ve been told) was recommended, but reviews were so...

Thanks, everyone. Once it cools down a little I’m going to pack my winter gear in it and take it on a test hike to determine what needs to be done.

How slow does someone have to be going the be too slow for the group on what, a 2.2 mile trail? I’m assuming it was on the uphill leg, but I seem to remember White Dot being pretty steep in places so it could easily slow someone down on the descent. But yeah, new hiking buddies.

The post you quoted displays a lot of the elitist attitude that seems to be becoming more vocal, if not more common. You’ll often hear it mentioned in conjunction with packed trailhead lots leading to people parking on the roadside (like at Falling Waters/Old Bridle Path, which I’m guilty of)...

Is Ragged the place where you get the Intervale trail tickets?

Thanks for the replies. So you used the shape of your spine to form it? I didn’t consider that, I guess I just assumed the curves of my ribcage in the general area of my shoulder blades would be different LOL.

I’ve bought from Geartrade a few times but never sold. Maybe I should look into it, I have somewhere around 16 backpacks that I’ve bought and either liked, didn’t like, or haven’t used enough to form an opinion. Facebook groups are very hit or miss, and if you sell for 50% of MSRP shipping costs...