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Best route, IMO, is off the north trail to Giant. Just before Slide Brook, leave the trail, turn right, and start climbing. The ridge narrows so you can't go wrong as long as you're going uphill. Once on the crest, there's are a long line of south-facing ledges. Each time you're forced into the...

Whether they were on the way up (much more likely) or on the way down, the relevant point is that they were on the slide with less than half an hour of remaining daylight. Timing is maybe not everything, but it's big.

It's been five or six years since the last good beech nut drop. Has anyone out there seen beech nuts in the woods lately, or even not so recently? I've hiked in plenty of beech woods during all seasons and see lots of young beech trees coming up, but no beech nuts either on the trees or on the...

This was Christine's second time. Considering that she was willing to do it again, plus Inge's description from last winter, I had the idea that it would be easy. HAH! We started at the first gated road on the left past the Cellar Pond road at 10:15. The flat area south of there is an extensive...

That will be welcome. While waiting for that to happen I want start bagging the Sawtooths. I'd go by myself but if you're still open to doing any of them yet again, or if you know someone who needs them, I'd prefer to team up.

It was sunny and cool when I signed in at 8:10 but the Bradley Pond trail offered a counterpoint to the pleasant weather with it's usual mudholes and the brook running down the trail, which would be noteworthy anywhere else but are the norm here. The frequent boot-sucking quagmires are...

BIG OOPS! IT SHOULD BE JUNE 8, NOT 12. I tried to edit the post but couldn't figure out how to change the date! Anyhow...having done the towers, the next logical thing was to bag the mountains that used to have a tower. Crane, in the hinterlands west of Chestertown, is one. The trailhead is at...

xc ski in to Santanoni Great Camp It's a long, gentle glide all the way out. On a sunny day in February, when the snow fleas are hopping in your tracks, you can just stand on your skis and watch the trees go by for an hour or so. Seeing the restoraton is worth the trip itself. If you haven't...

Peggy clued me in that you're finishing on BS this weekend. What time do you expect to be at the Garden?

Peggy is closing in on her W46x4 and I tagged along just 'cuz. We signed in at the gate at 7:45 and were back at the car before 5. It was a perfect winter day with bright sun, no wind, and gorgeous views of the Great Range. We took microspikes, snowshoes, and crampons, and needed all of it...

Long Pond Mountain is a true paddler's mountain. No advice on kayaks.

"Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind." - Finley Peter Dunne Just so, there are those who dissipated a misspent youth in other frivolities and took up winter mountaineering only...

Yesterday morning I walked in to Indian Pass Brook to check it out for my hike tomorrow, and found that I could either cross the stream or I could stray dry, but I couldn't do both. The usual rock-hop is submerged and what little ice there is is far too thin. Maybe Irene moved some of the...

There can't be many Kerrys who solo Seymour in the winter, so maybe that was you I met shortly below the summit last February as I was coming down. In any case, my compliments on your splendid achievement!

winter start Phelps on the 22nd will be my kick-off for completing a quest I couldn't begin until three years ago, which was to do a round of the W46 after age 70. The first was Allen on 12/16/10. Since then I did forty more, about a dozen by myself, but mostly with the best hiking companions I...

After a bumpy drive up the last 1.2 miles from Sled Harbor to the trailhead parking lot, it was an easy walk on the Cedar Lake trail, past the Pillsbury Lake turn-off, to Stony Brook. The bridge is out but the water was low and crossing was easy. That was the beginning of the bushwhack, heading...

This was a relatively easy bushwhack with uncomplicated route finding. I walked in on the Sucker Brook trail, turned right at 2500', and climbed the steep, narrow east ridge to the top. There were some thick spots and a couple of small cliff bands to skirt higher up, but overall not too bad...

The national weather people were hyperventilating about Hurricane Irene but here it was warm and sunny. Climbing a mountain seemed a far far better thing to do than obsess about a storm that was still a day away. This was the third climb in three days for Christine, it was very humid, and I was...

This one was a bit tougher than I expected. Nonetheless, I was on the trail at 9:30and back at the car at 3:15. I would've gotten there at 9:00 had I not picked up a hitchhiker walking south on route 30 a few miles south of Tupper Lake. He looked tired and a little spooked and told me that he...

This is an old favorite. We started at the upper trailhead around 10 and came out at the lower one at 2. It's great to be able to have a car at each end. Walking back on the road is unpleasant with summer traffic. The trail was dry despite nearly 2" of rain in the past 24 hours. Even the big mud...