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Okay, I've given up on the notion of having my cake and eating it, too. We have a really nice Sierra Designs 3-person backpacking tent that will work very well when weight matters and space does not. I've had three adults in it with no problem before so I guess I don't really need my family tent...

So, we own several backpacking and winter tents but the time has come for something a bit more spacious to accommodate two adults and a toddler (plus maybe another one someday). I've done some looking online at the usual stores but I could use some advice. It seems like you need to decide...

The best part of South Branch Pond is that there are tons of options for fun. Everything from short walks in the woods to full day rambles above tree-line. There have been many good suggestions already so I won't repeat them. You can just to there and pick something depending on how you feel...

that was intense. I was curious to see some chalk marks in the and along the face above him. Had it just been climbed by someone else or did the camera man climb with pro up it first?

Here are a few more pics. Many thanks to Arm, go, Steve-O and BM for another fine BSP trip. This was my first winter trip up the Hunt Trail and we couldn't have had better conditions. Check out my new climbing partner:

I just came out of the Park, too, and there is indeed lots of snow. That's the good news. I think your best bet for excellent scenery (but there won't be much climbing) is to follow the AT from Abol Bridge as far as you have time for. There will be plenty of snow for 'shoeing (barebootable on a...

mountains or a walk in the woods?

Madawaska is on the New Brunswick border and might as well be Canadian. Other than a small finger a bit to the west (where nobody lives), it's the farthest point north in Maine. I don't think the group was hiking Baxter Peak. It sounds to me like they were only hiking Pamola. I haven't seen...

Update on the BOB. We used it for ice skating last weekend and it was a blast. Between the wheels rolling smoothly when going straight and gliding around the corners, it was perfect on the ice and I never worried about a thing. I would have been worried if I had fallen while our son was in the...

cushetunk makes it sound like you have to choose one option... hogwash! You just have to decide which is first. Remember when you told your spouse that you only needed to buy one really good sleeping bag b/c it would last a lifetime...and then you realized you needed a warmer one? and a warmer...

Just to be clear, these two news items have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Knock with hammer, answer with a wrench...

I just saw this thread since it was resurrected. That picture, Chris, is actually Barren Mtn. OJI is just out of view to the left. The OJI slides are quite a bit higher up on the mountain and even now look much more like the letters than the Barren slides in that picture. Somewhere I have seen...

We've been doing lots of this kind of research over the last year and we ended up with an early 2000s hand-me-down Kelty backpack and a BOB stroller. The BOB does just about everything and so far it has allowed us to resist the quiver of strollers that most parents seem to have. The wheels roll...

I haven't checked in here in ages but I just saw this and thought I'd share that I got an unsolicited email yesterday from someone (no name, just an email address) saying s/he had bought the remains of Sherpa Snowshoes and was planning to reintroduce them for 2011: "just picked up what remains...

fixed it for 'ya.

I've been commuting 1-3 days a week for about a month. It's 16 miles each way. My drive is 25 minutes each way and biking takes me about 55 minutes on my commuter rig, so for an extra hour per day, I get in a 32 mile ride. Of course, it's not like the 32 miles I'd be riding on my road bike with...

We'll miss you, Weatherman! Have fun and good luck with the new career direction. They are lucky to have you!

Delorme's newest version (printed maybe 2 years ago?) of their BSP map has countours that are easier to read than those on the last version. It's the best map overall, in my opinion but the AMC one is very good for detail. The best contours are on the ATC map but that map is not practical for...

It's already working. here we are talking about it. A lot of folks who didn't know about the issue now know about. There are always going to be people who don't care or think it doesn't apply to them but no effort is going to cure that problem. This kind of effort minimizes the spread or more...