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ADK Slides The ADK summer BBQ and gathering is coming up. For those who dislike the ADK mud there are tons of excellent slides in the ADKs and they range from easy to life threatening. :D A few days ago we did the Bennies Brook Slide , which was growing in with slippery moss when Irene came...

Camera's working A-OK! Doug, I had put rice only (no camera) in a zip-lock over the heat source and got the same condensation. If rice absorbs humidity then the rice I used had already absorbed some from the ambient air. One could always dry rice out in an oven and then use it as a dessicant.

I really like #3. Times of predicted bad weather is pretty good too although a tad less reliable than sunset time. :) For external commitments that could be worded along the lines of: ensure all group members are aware of and agree upon the planned finishing time.

Yeah, I think I used the French spelling. Perhaps someone can edit it for me. :)

The SAR thread as related to the ten essentials made me realize that one seldom sees discussion of a different type of "essential". If the classic 10 essentials are hardware then what about a little "software" to go along with it? 1-Fore-knowledge of the intended route. 2-Familiarity with the...

An easy thing to do was put the camera along with some rice in a ziplock. Then I put the whole thing on top of a heat source (electric boot dryer) and quickly, the inner surface of the bag became covered with condensation so I removed the camera. Then I took a second ziplock and put only rice...

I recovered the camera yesterday :) and although the outer body was wet, the battery compartment was bone dry. I removed the battery right away. The display was fogged over but by the time I got back to the car it was clear. I'm going to just leave it for a day in a dry location and then...

Available perhaps at hardware/renovation stores? IIRC people used to hang sacks of it in their basements with a basin underneath. I had rice in mind for the drive home but perhaps the real thing is readily available.

My camera (Canon G10) has been out in the wet woods for a week. It's in a water resistant case but it has rained hard and lots wet snow has been forecast for the Dacks since I dropped it. I believe I have a very good chance of recovering it this Tuesday (enough to hike and bushwhack for 5...

This year Memorial day and the Canadian May long weekend fall on different weekends although the group from Quebec seems to be going on the Memorial day w/nd. When the parking lots are full are people allowed to park along the shoulder of the highway?

This is an excellent point. It does bring to mind a question. When do people start loving something to death? One can suggest that even if you amassed a group of 20,000 people and had them snake their way along Franconia Ridge in a 20 kilometer long file that once they were gone nothing...

Then I guess they are legal and further action beyond a head's up is unwarranted.

On a particular web site a group of greater than 100 people (111 confirmed with 32 maybes) are organizing a hike to Franconia Ridge on the May 31-June 1 weekend. I have encountered a group of 60 from this same organization in the Adirondacks and contacted the site administrator regarding the...

The only problem here is that the OP requested a 4k peak and Algonquin is a 5k peak. :D

There seem to be a number of sombreros and ponchos in those pictures. Some sort of pre-arranged theme perhaps? A Canadian theme would involve people in woolen hats (tuques) sitting around in the snow drinking beer.....no need for pre-arrangement eh?

Hence the Patch. I wrote a whole tongue-in-cheek "thesis" on this very topic. It's probably still here somewhere.

How bout the king of the jungle? Seems hard-wired for not doing much of anything most of the time.

How many people hike with a compass around their necks and a map in a handy pocket? And look at them from time to time? I've enjoyed this thread. It made me look up the trail on the map. On mine there appear to be three trails: Clinton, Webster Cliff and a 3rd which goes back to the Crawford...

Great post! Makes me feel like I wish I wasn't there! Oh wait, I wasn't. :D

I did Knob Lock just after Greg Karl and posted a report. I bushwhacked in from route 9N, from the Giant North TH and continued the whack to Hopkins Mountain. One of my favorite whacks. I also did Tripod several years ago. It's a viewless summit...