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gathered a few web pages with trail maintenance info ... feel free to add links here National Trails Day http://www.americanhiking.org/NTD.aspx Adirondack Mountain Club http://www.adk.org/volunteer http://www.adk.org/events/trails_projects.aspx ADK 46er Trail Crew...

congrats to Jean, Nathalie and HarryK for wrapping up the New England Hundred Highest on Goose Eye sunday ! they couldn't have picked a better day weather-wise ... um, well, at least there were some fun friends there to celebrate with them :) 13 lucky fools made our way up Success Pond...

cruised out to New York over the weekend for live music & hiking left home friday, opting for a country drive across scenic Vermont, after remembering the horror show of driving west on route 90 on labor pain weekend two years before cruising across VT route 73, listening to cool tunes...

i may have climbed Ben Nevis ... at the very least, i posted a trip report http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5933 i carried snowshoes, ice axe and crampons but didn't use them ... there was snow on the summit, but the ridge walk was mostly bare (late march 2005) the Tourist...

i hiked up Race Brook Trail fryday afternoon ... nice trail with good variety of waterfalls, ledges, and a mossy brook from the AT junction, i hiked north to Mt Everett, then back south to Mt Race spotted a long milk snake on the AT ... tent platforms near the AT were in good shape nice...

here's an online map from Franconia Notch State Park site http://www.franconianotchstatepark.com/franconiahikingfinal.pdf there's a paved bike path labelled "Recreational Trail" on this map, marked as a dotted line - this bike path runs from Skookumchuck Trailhead to the Flume visitor lot...

when you're ready to get a post-hike beer or two out of the way after hiking in scenic Vermont, McNeil's or the Long Trail Inn should do the trick http://www.allaboutbeer2.com/brewpubs/nav_links2.cgi?start=0&State=VT http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/ReviewWC.cfm/flat/BrewerID=228...

good views from the Kinsmans ... here's one of my favorites, from a hike we checked out in november 2000 ... looked like an "army of snowmen" on the summit, with Franconia Ridge in the background

my first water filter was a sweetwater, which w*rked fine, but was not real sturdy - the handle broke so i fixed it by buying another filter picked up an MSR miniw*rks, which never filtered well ... if you attach it to a nalgene bottle tightly, it wouldn't pump well ... if you loosen it, it...

alpenglow: the pink color the mountains turn in winter at sunrise and sunset. Many visitors see paintings of alpenglow and don't believe it can really look like that bearing tree: a tree identified by surveyors to help locate survey monuments, which define corners of surveyed lots or...

a few hiking terms we've come up with over the years ... feel free to add funny stuff here angry: when mountain conditions grow grim, as when a storm passes over the peak ... "Mount Washington is looking very angry; maybe it's unhappy about the smog railway" ASOD: Ass Shingle Of Death ...

checked out some cool hikes in Colorado over the weekend ... posting info here for folks who might be heading there soon ... got an early start to avoid afternoon thunderstorms on both hikes stayed at a friend's cabin in Alma after wrapping up a training course thursday ... Alma claims to be...

i considered starting a "tales of adversity" type thread to post stories related to outdoors adventures that helped me learn from mistakes, thinking folks might read up and learn something before they might make similar mistakes feel free to post here if you've got interesting tales that might...

June 14, 1985 - Flag Day ( living on borrowed time ) Twenty years ago today, I set out for a ride I'd never forget. I had recently dropped out of college, wanted to take a break until september, and had no serious plans until then. My Father called me around Thanksgiving 1984 and told...

Steve's a great guy ... stop by the Mountain Wanderer if you're in the area, and make sure you've got some free time ... folks usually stay there chatting longer than expected :) congrats on being recognized for everything you do to benefit the hiking community, Steve - keep up the good w*rk !

http://www.summitpost.org/show/mountain_query.pl/continent/All/sort_by/Alphabetical search by state, country, height, etc ... then click on links to search results for each summit to view photos, trip reports, maps, etc ... awesome site ! Glacier National Park in Montana or just about...

friends are planning a backpacking trip, and one of the options near the top of the food chain is Glacier National Park in Montana http://www.nps.gov/glac i visited Glacier a few years ago, but didn't do much hiking on that trip ... we scored backcountry permits but didn't get to use them...

AMC and other clubs have been maintaining trails and running programs to educate folks about the Great Outdoors for many years - these efforts should be appreciated AMC seems to get more flack from folks ever since they built the highprice center in Crawford Notch, seen as the straw that broke...

happy birthday to the old man of the mountain ! you're a good man and a great friend, SherpaK ... lookin' forward to many more outdoors adventures in the years ahead !

wish i could have made it back in time for the Maine trip ... i'd choose Katahdin over Pikes Peak any day ... but couldn't fly back in time to ski into Baxter State Park saturday morning the day hike we checked out in Lizard Head Wilderness last June blew away hiking Pikes Peak ... AMAZING...