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Don't give the parasitic postholers any ideas! Not much was broken out after the big snow storm, so snowshoes will still be very much needed.

It seems like the grasping of straws to try to blame that event with the shut down. Park Service law enforcement, as well as Forest Service law enforcement, is not furloughed.

Yes, I believe starting last year. It was plowed after the November and December storms this "fall." The section they provided train service to in the past was groomed and even had snowmaking. https://www.newenglandskihistory.com/NewHampshire/cograilway.php

Sounds like they've taken the Wildcat/USFS uphill policy.

The concern is not the vast majority of law abiding hunters. The concern is not getting shot by those breaking the laws. I still remember hiking the Eagle Mountain Path in Jackson years ago and startling a hunter still out there at dusk, wearing a red sweatshirt instead of having any orange...

Very sad to hear this. John was a very friendly man. I appreciated his puns, as well as his contributions to the mountains (including trail maintenance on a local trail, as well as experiments with new canister design). May he rest in peace.

The WMNF wilderness blazing restrictions are over the top. Well-marked and well-maintained trails will result in significantly less environmental damage (such as trail creep and erosion) than the increasingly bad situation we have right now.

An engineer I know (former bridge engineer) said the bridge could have been saved.

I don't agree with the decision. Further, I don't agree with the premise that the historic bridge could be removed, yet logging remains that are only a relative few years older must be preserved, because of arbitrary parameters. I think the Forest Service is, pun intended, burning bridges with...

Cannon' also posted a hiking is prohibited sign when they first opened the trail. On one hand, they're telling people not to park or hike from over-crowded trailheads. On the other hand, they're deterring people from hiking empty trails and preventing people from parking in empty parking lots...

Considering the weather at points immediately to the south, I wouldn't consider Sunday's crowds indicative of change.

Cannon management was opposed to the trail from day one, but was overruled by Concord. Rather than embrace the idea, they did everything they could to dissuade hikers from using the trail, including having a closed sign at the top of the trail. Mittersill was a beautiful place to hike prior to...

The general fund contribution is likely negative, as there are expenses recognized in other departments that are actually incurred by the parks. The "self-funded" myth is dangerous. We have seen ridiculous spending because people were led to believe the project was "self-funded." On the other...

The department formerly known as DRED gets general fund infusions much more frequently than most are aware. In the case of Cannon, millions of dollars from the general fund have been diverted to the ski area (not including the millions of intra-departmental funds from the Sunapee lease), with...

I know the entity formerly known as DRED likes to say the park system is self-funded, but it's incorrect. The parks are supposedly self-funded on an O&M basis, but not on a capital basis. The big, multi-million dollar capital investments in the New Hampshire state park system come out of the...

A quick scan of the survey suggests that they're not looking for solutions, but rather to make access more difficult. The reality is that FNSP *could* invest money to come up with a solution, but instead has been diverting millions to prop up Cannon Mountain ski area. Some ideas (some...

Very important notes on this trail that relate to so many others. We are reaching a crisis in terms of the rapid deterioration of standard 4K routes. The amount of damage in just the past few years is staggering. If we don't stabilize these trails soon, the pendulum will swing to the point in...

Poorly worded? Perhaps. But the message is valid. Our main 4K trails are falling apart at an astounding rate. I've only been hiking these trails for about a decade, but the damage observed during that time is deeply troubling. Whether it be losing 5 vertical feet of footbed due to erosion...

Most people's posteriors are shaped differently than the bottom of their snowshoes, so the resulting frozen track can take on a shape resembling a narrow half pipe that can be difficult to maneuver for subsequent hikers. I concur with the danger of buttsliding East Osceola...I've been nearly...

Presby's claim is correct, as far as state bookkeeping goes; the Mount Washington State Park has been represented as a loss. That said, the state does some accounting techniques that no private sector business could ever get away with. For instance, the state represents Cannon as a...