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I was surprised to see this headline Thursday in my local paper The Caledonian Record: "Bethlehem Prepares For 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, And Big Crowds Informational Event Scheduled For June 21 At The Colonial Theatre." Typically you get a couple of free reads per month from this site...

Not just yet. F&G is still it's own department. DNCR has parks, forest & lands, historic sites as far as natural resource management, and a couple of other divisions. We thought the reorganization from DRED to DNCR a few years ago was going to do this. There is an employee retention/recruitment...

I agree when I look at the example at Monadnock where I really think we needed a third parking lot constructed at HQ, but the Master Plan agreed to modest expansion of existing lots with some increased distribution to other trailheads. What happened was we continued to accommodate most of the...

Not totally separate as this discussion really got me thinking about the varied use at the Basin, and the ability to access. My family loves to go there for a quick trip to cool off and not by 'swimming', just being in that cool refreshing environment and maybe a dip of the feet for the few...

I can only speak from a historic perspective now, as I intended to keep working part time for NH Parks, but got laid off due to the pandemic, and then realized that I don't want to work for the State of NH anymore. So I'm getting far away from what's going on now. Unfortunately there never was...

Peakbagger. You may get to see one of your Wildcat rescuers on WMUR's Chronicle tonight at 7 pm. At least I always assumed Kevin St. Gelais might likely be one of the workers who assisted you if he was still working there. I was on the news 9 website this morning and was very surprised to see...

Sorry skiguy, I only intended to remove the other content in your post to concentrate on 2 of your points that I agreed with and wished to reinforce from my perspective. - Mt. Washington is and has been a major tourist destination for years and that probably will never change. With that it has...

From the perspective of an actual treehugger, I like this proposal much better than the side slope hotel proposal. I look at Mt. Washington's western slope most every day, and the former proposal bothered me in figuring we would see a glow from lighting or just seeing the new development stuck...

Would be nice to see an additional financial benefit opportunity for those who prefer to keep their land wild. Forests are very good at managing themselves. Although anything would and probably should, require a professionally recognized forest management plan; similar as such currently...

For operating guide businesses on state owned trails and/or land under management of the NH DNCR (Parks/Trails/F&L), they are supposed to get a Special Use/Guide Permit if they are. It is a relatively newer program built on the special use requirements for commercial use of state lands, that...

They said during the WMUR report that the Forest Service planned to have most everything repaired in time for the upcoming (fair weather) hiking season. The perpetrator will need to be caught first. I'm sure the staff feel like being on a hamster wheel with this stuff.

I do think they are going to have to address carrying capacity issues at some point, and it may be that within the limits of the state park just in that the parks agency is aware of such issues and has and continues to develop methods to act as they have at other parks. It's unfortunate now that...

Peakbagger- the east side route was the only original direct route between Gorham and Berlin, but there was a need/desire for an all woods route between the two, and eventually Smitty's Trail was cut as an option, and it branches off the old truck road that leads up behind Pike. NHClimber I'm...

Well, I was ignorantly impatient on Friday as I went out yesterday and the snow settled even more and firmed up. Needed to freeze some more and I was able to walk on top of the crust around the footprint holes I made the previous day. Not exactly hardpan and not boilerplate. A firm but friable...

It's what became known as Smitty's Trail. It's a nice enough trail as it heads generally south out of Jericho and negotiates over a ridge. But as it drops towards Gorham and connects to the old truck road that is Corridor 16 (snomo trail), it runs down a very steep slope quite a way where they...

Its too bad better planning didn't happen with much of all this, as the major problems that arose in Gorham were predicted and maybe could have been avoided. It was intentional though as the promoters knew that it would just force the negative issues to be dealt with as they had the political...

I thought for sure I would have go-anywhere snow after the last cycle yesterday. Generally, still more than a foot around here where I'm at ~1100' that did not fully settle and soak but has a friable crust with softer snow under. I could only stay on top bare booted on a snowshoe track that I...

You ain't kidding! Was outside last night around 10 and it was 40 degrees, but the wind was blowing steady, and you could almost see it working the snow down. Puddles in the driveway this morning. WCAX in Burlington showed that 15" of snow was on the ground Sunday, with 5" on the ground...

Thanks Scubahhh, I didn't know about his video series. Having learned quite a bit from his books and from many of my friends who were his students at Antioch University, I was always a little jealous I never got to go on one of his walks. His students have always been very fond of his lessons...

Peering out the window it appears close to 16" here on this side of the hills. Nice to have a big snow as it's been a while here. Peakbagger- I just heard a report of an earthquake centered near Gorham around midnight last night. Pretty sure I heard this as I went out after midnight to a canopy...