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Mixed results on Saturday, June 7. Perhaps a late start (10:30) and relatively high elevation (2100' at Kanc's hairpin) helped, but I noticed zero bugs until Sawyer Pond at 3:00. Then I was a marked man and fought black flies the rest of the way. Still itchy after three days. -Rich

Saturday, 6/7 Hancock Notch, Sawyer River, Sawyer Pond trails, 14.1 miles, 1250' elevation gain (11 miles on Kanc) No peaks, lots of redlining. Trail Conditions: Muddy & wet but feet stayed dry. Downed trees, especially on southern end of Sawyer Pond Trail. Trail east of Hancock Notch difficult...

How convenient, on a weekend morning! And when's the last time Camelopardalis got any press? Thanks for the heads up.

I'm with HH1. I've heard the season is Memorial Day to Independence Day, basically June with tails into May and July. Camping at Nancy Pond in mid-June 2009, cooking dinner was torture. The moment the stove was off, I retreated to the tent to eat. And then spent many minutes swatting them from...

According to WMG 28th edition (I can't imagine 29th edition changed): CLOCKWISE location elev Δdist Σdist Δelev Σelev Σtime Wilderness Tr @ Lincoln Woods 1160 0 0 0 0 0:00 Wilderness Tr @ Osseo Tr 1300 1.4 1.4 150 150 0:45 Franconia Ridge Tr @ Osseo Tr 4240 4.1 5.5 2900 3050 4:15 Franconia...

Does it look like a small pyramid? I believe that would be Liberty. Moosilauke, Cannon, Liberty and Lafayette are all visible long before "entering White Mountain Region". Try entering latitude 43.637535 N longitude 71.649399 W in heywhatsthat.com. The Visibility Cloak (viewshed) highlights...

+1 KRT is definitely one of the most spectacular trails in the Whites. Past the Subway, you're climbing rapidly above treeline, and every time you stop to rest, you turn around and the view is so much better. The statistics say it's steep and strenuous, and you'll use your hands a lot. But I...

heywhatsthat.com is a neat tool for exploring these questions. You can create your own 360-degree profile from any location and elevation, or in this case, find one already created for the Prudential tower. Then you can zoom to another point, like Mt Washington, and view the linear profile in...

My Scudder's is not the best for answering this question. The 1995 edition identifies only 34 from Carrigain by name: Hancock Moosilauke Flume SKinsman Liberty NKinsman Lincoln OwlsHead Lafayette Bondcliff Garfield WBond Bond STwin NTwin Zealand Hale Cabot Field Willey Jefferson Eisenhower...

Great pics, Blaze. Glad to hear that not all national parks were closed during the shutdown. Two pics resonated with me. boots - sandstone dust permeates everything arch - blue skies anywhere else are just wannabe blue

lyrics A great song. Thanks for bringing it up. Well, I’ve been down every trail. And I never took the cog rail. I climbed, I climbed every mountain. I walked past every cairn, And I sure do miss the Old Man. I climbed, I climbed every mountain. Isolation, Waumbek, Whiteface, Galehead...

Many of you have shown an interest in astronomy. Even if you haven't, this image has a definite wow factor. Astrophotographer Christopher Georgia captured a panorama of the Milky Way as seen from Artists Bluff on July 13. I bet many of you with DSLRs could duplicate his work...

Not so terrifying for me, either. I ascended Madison Gulf on 8/11 and thoroughly enjoyed it. At 6', only two pitches near the beginning of the headwall required using a knee to climb the ledges. There were no no-fall zones. It definitely required use of hands, and the going was necessarily slow...

Hi, Tim. It was great meeting you early in the hike. Your pictures are terrific; I should stop more often to look at the streams and the flora. Like you, I'm now hooked on the Great Gulf. Rich

Trail conditions Great Gulf: some muddy sections, no big deal Madison Gulf: the headwall was the best part! very little surface water 48 hours after the rain. A few difficult sections but my 6' frame handled it well. At the top I met a hiker bailing on a Presi traverse. I tried to steer him...