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It’s looking good here, too, but that Wed-Fri stretch will definitely mean trouble for bare-booters. I’m going up it this afternoon to see what trail conditions are like. High temps are forecast to be below freezing all next week so at least the roads shouldn’t be a big mess.

If anyone is planning to view from mountains around Jackman, take heed and bring snowshoes. It’ll almost certainly change by next week, but there’s still quite a bit of snow up there from last weekend’s storm and the stuff that was there before.

We got about 16-18” here in Jackman. I’m going to attempt Coburn Mtn today, the logging road to the trailhead (Enchanted Mtn Rd) may or may not be plowed yet by the crew working on the NECEC. If not I’ll snowshoe in (about 2 miles), but if there are any snowmobile tracks forget it. They run like...

Thursday a log truck headed south on 201 lost the road in a whiteout, drove right into a pond in The Forks, and rolled on its side. The logs went forward and took the cab off the truck. The 35 y/o driver was eventually found underneath the logs.

Granite Gear Perimeter 35/50, $100 regularly $250. I have several other Granite Gear packs from 38l to 70l that I really like, so I ordered a Perimeter 50 on recommendations last night to see if I like it better than my amazingly comfortable Atmos AG 50. For that price I can give someone else a...

Check out Atlas Range MTN snowshoes, I’ve been using my new pair a lot this winter and think they’re much better than MSRs.

In his defense, they worked fine in the mountains of Kentucky 😁

Well the logging road out to Boundary Bald Mountain is gated now, so instead of driving 4.5 miles to the trailhead to snowshoe I guess I’ll park by the gate and just hike on the road until I feel like turning around. Looks like a good time to heat-mold a new pair of insoles for my Lowas.

Normally I look forward to that because it’s light enough to see almost until 7 on my evening snowshoes, but I’m not sure the snow will be usable then. Even if it’s deep enough there’ll be voids underneath and those just suck falling into. There’s hoping 24-25 is an absolute terror of a winter -...

I’m thinking I’ll have another few weeks at most for snowshoeing, the snow was pretty sugary today and made going uphill a little slippery at times. There’s still plenty of depth, at least 2 feet in most places if the soft spots I stepped in today were any indication. Logging roads are starting...

A friend, her dog, and I drove up one day in Aug 2016, it was 80ish, breezy, and sunny at the base. 60ish & windy at the summit, within 15-20 minutes it was completely clouded in, temp had dropped to the mid-30s, and it was pouring with gusts to 80ish. I didn’t check the forecast so I have no...

The problem is less fuel gelling in tanks and more in filters and lines. Fuel heaters in filter bowls and a salamander pointing at the engine are more than enough to take care of any gelling of fuel that the additive hasn’t mixed with, though. I used to run straight waste Jet-A sumped from our...

When a friend and I hiked Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail to Mt Monroe in Sept 2017, we ran into 2 guys at the LOC hut who’d been told by a ranger at ART trailhead that they should have better footwear. So they headed back into N. Conway, bought new shoes/boots at EMS, and came back to hike. A week...

The state might luck out and have it go to trial in the winter. Then the jury could be put on a snow cat with just the outerwear they wore to the courthouse, brought up to the summit of Mt Washington, and told “these are the conditions in which the defendant ventured out here, being only...

I just leave the liners on when I have to use my hands. I’ve tried wool liner gloves but they’re not quite as warm as the thicker mitten liners with the trigger finger. A more practical pair of mittens is on my list, though. These are what I’d want if I was ever stranded on a mountain and...

When I got out of the army 25 years ago, I moved back to ME and got back into ice fishing with some high school friends. Over the 12 years I was in I’d collected plenty of warm clothing but didn’t really have anything for my hands and feet. A trip to Kittery Trading Post took care of that, I...

I just spent quite a bit of time following roads on Google Maps and here’s what I found: Gold Brook Rd goes off the north side of 27 past Eustis, and turns into Beaudry Rd after Spencer Bale Rd on the right (maybe what I thought was Spencer Rd?) Beaudry Rd continues and turns BACK to Gold...

I’ve seen the same thing, but more maps I’ve seen call it Beaudry Rd. If you drive down Holeb Rd from 201 the junction before you reach Holeb village has a “Beaudry Rd” sign. I *think* Gold Brook Rd is where you turn left off Spencer Rd to get to 27, and if you go right you’ll eventually get to...

Better have a leash for that paper map, too! I usually have my compass on a lanyard around my neck, I don’t want to lose it and while I know the liquid inside it isn’t water I’m assuming it can get thick at cold temps. I wouldn’t want to get an incorrect reading because I didn’t wait long enough...

Put ‘em to work, they can pay off their rescue costs by doing trail maintenance, picking up trash and painting signs, toilets, emptying trash cans at trailhead parking, cleaning & maintaining huts, etc. I’m thinking 2 16-hour weekends per month, for 6 months (May-October.) Issue a citation that...