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Great pics, and great job trail-breaking, John. I'd like to return here someday, Mt. Martha holds a bit of nostalgia for me since it was my first winter White Mountains hike.

Ahhh I see...working all weekend (Sunday too :() has apparently dulled my sense of humor. ;)

Nice report Earl. I'm still a little confused though by your conclusions regarding clockwise vs. counter-clockwise. Why would you need to do less trailbreaking if you went counter-clockwise? Something to do with the common traffic patterns on these trails? Anyway, I think at the time I asked...

Most definitely interesting...thanks John!

Some of us could be posting from work. Not me, though. :D

I don't have a GPS file, but I have a couple of pictures of where the bushwhack starts, if that helps. Someone carved a big 'T' on a tree right where it starts. :rolleyes: http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2045362410097623285AcFOnE When I was there last Wednesday it was pretty easy to follow...

Happy Mardis Gras!

Date: 2/13/10 Trails: Crawford Path, Edmands Path, small bit of Webster Cliff, Eisenhower Loop Conditions: Crawford Path and Webster Cliff trail (the small portion that goes up to Pierce from Crawford Path) pretty firm, ok for barebooting or light traction. Beyond Pierce on the Crawford Path...

What a great post for #100. ;) Congrats!

Nice report...and wow! That's crazy. ;) I almost had heart failure just doing the Beehive in the summer, I can't imagine doing the Precipice in the winter.

Date of hike: 1/31/10 Conditions: Firmly packed all the way to the summit, snowshoes not really needed, but light traction recommended due to steep sections.

Red Rock Canyon is less than 20 miles from Vegas. I haven't hiked there but did it as a driving tour a few years ago, and it was nice. Temperature was around 105 in June, not sure what it would be like in April - hopefully a lot cooler. There's a fee to get in but I seem to remember it was...

Don't get me started! I just recently got back into skiing (mostly so I could bring my kids skiing), after a 17-year hiatus. Now I have to replace those old straight skis so I don't have to keep renting. I just spent $400 on new ski gear for just one of my kids. Next, there's the second kid...

Fully geared? What's that? ;) Seriously, some people told me I was crazy when I bought new snowshoes to replace ones that were still working fine. I may be a gear addict. Are there rehab centers for that? :D

Funny you should say that, that was one of the reasons I decided to get the Tubbs Flex Alps. I loved the MSRs for their lightness and great traction, but I'm so spacey sometimes that I'd end up putting my foot too far forward, and my boot would then hit the front of the snowshoe....or I'd put...

Just thought I would post an update clarifying some of my mis-leading statements above. I went to the Salomon web site (don't know why I didn't just think of this in the first place) and discovered that SNS XA bindings are the backcountry version of SNS bindings. The XA is just short for XADV...

I'd be interested in conditions on Mt. Jackson because that's a possibility for the weekend. I've only been up there once via the Webster-Jackson trail and would prefer to ascend that final pitch when it's not too icy. Hoping for some fresh snow by the weekend...

I stopped at REI in Reading during lunch to take a look at the SNS bindings and see how they were different than the NNN. With the ridge on the binding and the groove in the boot, it looks like these would offer a lot more turning power than NNNs. Edit: oops, I just checked online and I guess...

Regarding bindings....I have been reading up a bit and I understand that the difference between SNS-XA bindings and SNS-BC bindings is that the 'BC' version is 'beefier'. But what does this really mean in practice? If I go out on backcountry skis but I have the XA version, what's the disadvantage?

That's what it was for me too, the strap over my foot would cause some pain on the descent. Since there's no defined stop for the front of your boot (like there is on Tubbs snowshoes), have you tried positioning your feet a little farther forward or farther back in the shoes? Seems like...