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I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than 6-8 people on the summit since my Boy Scouts days. Now Monadnock and Little Haystack on Labor Day weekend are another story! Kearsarge North got pretty crowded, too, even on frigid winter days.

Nice! A friend and I went up Champney on a frigid day in March 2017, his first time up and first time in subzero temps. We must have each eaten 5000 calories at the Yankee Smokehouse afterward 😂. Chocorua is still my favorite mountain in the Whites, it was the first one I hiked in Boy Scouts...

Wouldn’t that be the wearers’ fault? I mean, microspikes were invented to make inadequate conditions more adequate. Same as skis, snowshoes, ice axes, insulated clothing & footwear... You can’t blame the tool or the fact that it exists for any improper use.

I have a pair of Kahtoolas with the Velcro straps from my first pair of Hillsounds that I use as loaners. Since moving up here 5 years ago I’ve hardly used my Hillsounds, once we get enough snow I’m on snowshoes and bushwhacking instead of following trails.

What do you consider to be “not that long”? Because big game season totals 3+ months between bear, deer, and moose, depending on where the weekends fall. Though bear season itself is 3 months, basically from the end of August to the end of November, which covers both deer and moose seasons...

I’m referring to the lawsuit to end the ban on Sunday hunting.

I don’t get the people for whom hunting is apparently so important, but who can’t plan to have a day or 2 off Monday-Saturday. Is one day per week that I don’t have to risk ending up like Karen Wrentzel too much to ask for? I have no problem with hunting, I do have a problem with hunters who...

I just bought a pair last winter, they seem to be about as warm as my Sorel Conquests. I’ve done a LOT of hiking and snowshoeing in those, but the Bridgers seem to be more supportive. Though the Conquest Achilles strap does work.

Boundary Bald Mountain, Jackman ME, 4+ feet of snow and around 5F on Nov 23 2018.

Spencer Lake POW Camp, outside Jackman ME, Christmas 2020.

If so I await enlightenment on the issue from you. But in reality you’re just retroactively imposing your values from your position of comfort.

That‘s probably the 2nd best thing about living up here in Jackman ME, in 5 years I’ve seen fewer than 20 people on trail. It’s even better in winter, when I can drive down any logging road, stop wherever I want outside of working hours (and without blocking the road; I’ve had to winch myself...

Right, who’s generating more carbon - Norway, or China? And since the power needed to run a large city almost always comes from plants in rural areas, is that being taken into consideration when calculating the per capita carbon emissions in those rural areas? What about carbon emissions due to...

That’s from the delamination, if the fabric is still sound it can be recoated like mentioned above.

Because taxes will never fully fund anything, unless we want to pay 80% or more of our income as taxes.

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I picked this up on eBay, it was listed as an XL but is actually a small. The ”XL” was written on the shoulder strap in what looks like tailor’s chalk. Torso length range is 14-18” so definitely not good for me. The pack has medium unisex shoulder straps and a medium women’s hip belt. Pack...

I picked up a used Feathered Friends Eider -10F bag w/6oz overfill last year, according to FF the serial number puts its manufacture around 2000. Whoever owned it before took care of it like his life depended on it because I think you’d seriously have a hard time telling it’s not new from...

I followed the blazed trail and just used AllTrails to keep track of my path. Whether the actual path has moved in relation to its location on the map or GPS inaccuracy shows my recorded track as being some distance from my actual track, I don’t know. When I hiked in the Whites and...

Yes, an app or person is only as good as the info it’s been given. I like AllTrails because it lets me use the USGS maps I’m familiar with and doesn’t have all kinds of crap cluttering it up. One thing I‘d like to see is the ability to toggle your track on/off, but it’s not that big a deal.