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I don’t have any pics but it looks to me like the boot should be farther forward. That strap looks like it goes over the instep, not the toes. But it’s been years since I’ve seen any of that style binding and I wasn’t really paying attention to how they were attached.

I was born in New Hartford NY in 1968 and lived near Clinton until I was 7, and storms dropping multiple feet of snow were the rule, not the exception. In September road crews would put up snow fencing along all the fields, and we had enough snow to snowmobile by my birthday (Nov 8.) It usually...

I went out for a short hike Monday, we’d gotten 3-4” of really light, fluffy stuff over the weekend and it was still snowing. Driving back out the logging road I saw a single snowmobile track right down the middle of the road. I get it, I brought snowshoes on all my hikes over the holiday...

My last time up Kearsarge North was on a pretty cold day (like -5F on Hurricane Rd) in Feb 2018. Spikes went on first thing and stayed on. I’d worn my mountaineering boots and brought my crampons, as well as my Hillsound Ultras for my friend, but we didn’t need them. Until well after the ledge...

That‘s something I hadn’t thought of, so I think I will make sure I’m on a mountaintop if the skies are clear.

Basically camping is allowed anywhere that’s not posted and isn’t interfering with logging or the Corridor work. In the West Forks/Caratunk area some logging roads that *should* be passable at the time (if nobody is logging along them they may not be plowed) and have suitable spots for camping...

April 8 *should* still be snowy and cold enough for the logging roads to be open and the trails not too muddy or busy. On May 13 2022 I hiked up Coburn Mountain to camp and there was still 4-6 feet of snow on the woods trail 2/3 of the way up. Same with Number 5 Mountain a little farther west...

Probably at work, right in the middle of the zone of totality. I’ll only climb for nocturnal astronomical events.

I only temporarily ran out, I had another roll in the Jeep for the next day LOL.

I was trying to continue making and flagging a bushwhack route up Boundary Bald Mtn (just outside town) this past weekend, with plans to camp Saturday & Sunday nights. 2 weekends ago (Dec 16-17) we had probably 12-18” of somewhat consolidated snow so I was on snowshoes. This past weekend...

I have a Deschutes that I like quite a lot. I haven’t used it in bad weather yet, but I have set it up before heavy rain to test my seam-sealing job and only found one small leak at the peak. After taking care of that it’s been bone dry. You definitely want to practice setting it up in the...

Not going by the last few years! The year I moved up here (2018) we got 18” on Thanksgiving and that weekend there was 4-5’ of snow at the lower elevations on Boundary Bald. In Feb 2019 I could push my poles just short of 5’ into the snow and not touch ground. The underbrush, bushes, and grasses...

Not the Presis, but I’m satisfied enough with this forecast for my nearest mountain. There’s probably 15” now at lower elevations, quite a bit more higher up. I just want enough to cover all the stickers and undergrowth at lower levels!

Good info, you’re obviously more knowledgeable about them than I am. If I see a triangular head and/or hear rattling, I think “rattler!” At the time I didn’t know about the triangular head so rattling = rattler. I’m thinking that if there are very few rattlers in Maine then it’s not likely...

I don’t understand how people say there are none in Maine. Around 40 years ago some friends and I were fishing in Biddeford and since nothing was hitting lures I started poking through a pile of rocks for live bait. All of a sudden I heard rattling and saw the snake maybe 5-6 feet away. Nobody...

They‘re harder to use in steeper terrain due to less aggressive crampons and require a LOT of pole use while climbing, but nothing that’s not a traditional can break trail like my GV Wide Trail 12x42s. My 10x36 Garneaus & Tubbs do well, too, and are much better in steep terrain. The irony is I...

Great pics! Clouds in the mountains always make for dramatic pics, even (especially?) if they’re the scary kind. My favorite one I have is from the summit of Coburn Mtn ME, looking toward Jackman.

Not even close, microspikes stick so much better on ice than snowshoes because your weight is concentrated on a much smaller area, which is the exact opposite of what snowshoes are designed to do. Surface area is not your friend when moving on ice.

Do you pay a view tax if you’re blind? 8” of snow at the Boundary Bald Mtn trailhead today and I wore my new snowshoes to try them out. Didn’t go too far because I forgot to put on a belt and my pack pushed my pants down my ass. But there are no pöste-holen auf dem berg!

Stab a knife and a fork into a piece of wood and see which one goes in deeper. If you need penetration fewer points are better than more. Snowshoes’ width puts a lot of leverage on your ankles, especially if they have rigid pivots like most mountain snowshoes do. Then add in the fact that...