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Yes, and it was an eye-opening experience. Depending on the strength/concentration of the DEET, it can eat through plastic bags and disfigure plastic surfaces. After finding this out the hard way a couple of years ago, I don't get it anywhere near my hands/face when doing photography and make...

Very much agreed. And Chip, thanks for posting this notice -- the book sounds pretty cool.

Just any 20 miles...randomly?

Correct -- the original trail is not the road in Clearbrook; and yes, the "curiously flat patch" was the trailhead for the Franconia Ridge Trail (later Osseo Trail). RE: the opening date of the new Osseo Trail -- the copy of the AMC White Mountain Guide I have from 1979 simply says that the...

That would have been over 30 years ago -- about 1978/79.

I've noticed this, as well, in the area...I wondered what was going on.

Old Osseo Trail = Southern End of Original Franconia Ridge Trail... Jazzbo -- Excellent trip report -- thanks for sharing this. (I read the entire thing and didn't just skim it for interesting tidbits!) I'd like to do that trail sometime, as well. You know that the Old Osseo Trail was the...

Steve -- thanks for the greenie. For a few years I used to make that trek several times a year, from near Albany back to the area around Hanover/Lyme, NH and it always became a fine balance between finding a route that was interesting but didn't take too long. Sometimes "interesting" won out...

Hey, thanks for the green square...very much obliged. By the by, if you have not yet settled on your route up Moosilauke, do consider going up the Glencliff Trail and bypassing the Ravine Lodge chaos entirely. Glencliff is a beautiful trail (especially in winter) and passes right by the spur for...

Nice photographs in the slide show; thanks for the link to these. NOTE: The one "thistle?" picture looks like a Musk Thistle (a noxious weed, unfortunately), rather than a Scotch Thistle.

Very much agreed -- chatting about hiking the Whites, etc. can be a good ice-breaker during an interview. And then comes the discussion about algorithms or the significance of certain events in Reformation England or the best best way to re-create early 20th Century mortar for re-pointing old...

From my experience in the past week to 10 days, the black fly problem depends more on elevation. At lower elevations, they're not much of a problem. However, at the higher elevations now (4500 to 5500 feet) the "elaborate meal" may in fact be you.

The article has since been corrected and that particular statement removed.

Hmmmm...that could be interesting...

Nicely done all of you -- thank you for your help in maintaining this trail. All of us who use this and other trails in the area at one point or another are the lucky (but not ungrateful) beneficiaries of your hard work. Thank you!

Best route for Alpine Garden depends on whether or not you just want to see the flowers or if you need to spend a few hours up there, doing photography. If I'm going just for a look-see, I'll go up the Tuckerman Ravine Trail because as soon as I get out of the ravine, I've got the Alpine Garden...

Thank you for the green square -- much appreciated! Get up to the Alpine Garden this week, if you can. You may have cloudy conditions, but those will cause the colors to pop a bit more (than in the bright sun we had last week).

Oh, they are peaking right now. Check out my post on the wildflower thread; PM me if you need more details: http://www.vftt.org/forums/showpost.php?p=319926&postcount=115

"Old" Osseo Trail... Skip -- Nice trip report. Here's some additional background on the Osseo Trail: The "old" Osseo Trail was originally the southern section of the Franconia Ridge Trail. The 1922 AMC Guide says that the AMC took over this trail sometime in the 1910s from the North...

(If memory serves me correctly)...there are four key routes up Snowdon. A Pemi Loop would be, as a rough guess, the equivalent of going up and down all four of those Snowdon routes, one after the other.