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A friend was showing me her new nifty powered heated jacket last weekend, which reminded me of a story I thought to tell her from maybe 2001 when meeting with the NHF&G Region 4 Lieutenant, to inventory the S&R supplies we kept in the rescue room at the base of Mt. Monadnock. One item he...

In my teens in the mid-1980's, I purchased from Cabelas both of their Dachstein offerings of mitts and socks. The mitts lived up to all expectations for warmth and an adequate shell for over 2 years of constant (youthful) use. They eventually thinned out at pressure points and wore through, as I...

I always found paint blazing one of the most tedious and least desirable trail tasks that you really had to commit specific time to. Not that easy to go out and clear blowdowns or water bars and do a few blazes along the way, as you're bound to make a mess of yourself that way. I favored fixed...

Yes, the example I cited was actually a helicopter from Maine Medical Center, initiated through DHART's mutual aid network. The NH crew was tied up so first requested help from Boston Medical, but they were also unavailable. I may be remembering that backwards. We worked primarily with DHART at...

Too true Chris. One of my biggest regrets during that career period, was calling in an air ambulance for a subject exhibiting all indicators of imminent cardiac arrest high on the mountain, that subsequently turned out to be cumulative response his body was having from exposure to toxins at his...

Lamentation was one of my favorite hiking/climbing playgrounds for many years as a teen, I don't recall a jeep road 40 years ago except maybe coming up out of the quarry area? I recall dry oak scrub forest and trails full of fallen acorns making ball bearings underfoot. Really too bad-...

Employed by a NH state agency performing S&R, with 8 of those years as the incident command; this used to bother me. I followed a policy that all litter carry's the patient would only be delivered to an ambulance; the patient could work it out with them to refuse care/transport if desired. The...

A life very well-lived! ...and thanks to him to have taken the time to share so much with us. Already missing his writings.

One tick removed from cat on Saturday here in Bethlehem, NH. Desperate times for the little buggers

I concur with jrcinnh with bike use; with the way much of the park is presented by short trails to many interesting things, biking the carriage roads to trailheads is a great way to explore. I used to spend a lot of time on my bike on the carriage paths with daypack strapped to bike rack, chain...

Agreed. Initially was going to take the event in stride at home with partial, but the encouragement from others here to seek totality (which for us only 20 minutes away) was a world of difference, that was cool. We sat in a crowd and one of the coolest things was a disco ball hanging in one of...

I was getting the feeling yesterday and the forecast was shaping up for us to be in our traditional snow-shadow here in Bethlehem, NH. When the front swept in mid-afternoon yesterday there was little to no precip with it, and at our location tucked under the west side of the hill, the wind gusts...

Once at the festival in Johnson, VT I was staring up at the cliffs of Prospect Rock wondering what the hell I was doing in a crowd of muddy people and not enjoying the forest instead. I wandered off and eventually found myself looking down at the scene and enjoying it immensely from the safety...

Berlin was reporting over 20" this morning so I figured you would have gotten more peakbagger. We got just over 18" on this west side of Bethlehem NH as of this morning, although that is not with proper scientific measurement. I was shoveling some after 9 pm and kept hearing large areas of the...

Listening to radio broadcast from St J around 1 pm yesterday the National Weather Service cut in with an alert for very intense squalls, but I noted the affected areas were all north central VT with the farthest east being Newport. I checked the NWS forecast for Bethlehem NH and there was not...

Looks like I was all wrong previously stating the worse of mud season would be out of the roads by then (anyone may want to reconsider any suggestions from me!). The forecast for this week brought us back into more traditional patterns but heading into the weekend is some good winter-like...

We prepared at Monadnock for the Harmonic Convergence I guess that was back in the 1990's, but had no calls. At least it will get light again for a bit afterwards. I've started to think maybe I should have planned to stay home since I have a tractor and might be able to make some cash pulling...

I've started to wonder if officials were thinking that if the village and park become overwhelmed, they could direct traffic south along Rte. 5 where there is a miles long stretch of road that is somewhat straight with very wide shoulders and a wide sky view, and is roughly along-side the open...

Very near but significantly more ideal......actually did we make the best plans for this as I wasn't even trying to consider wild locations.......https://wildernesswebb.com/2020/11/01/sentinel-rock/ shhhh. Up out of the defile. Parking area is tiny although I seem to remember a secondary...

Initially we were just going to enjoy our near totality here on the edge of the Northern Whites, but started getting excited about being in totality near-by at our local weather observatory and planetarium in St. J. I have been asking questions over the past year anytime we have been there, and...