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This should be a cautionary tale to anyone who goes into the higher peaks in early to mid spring without snowshoes. It may seem firm enough to get up, but things can change, and change quickly. Even carrying a pair of light snowshoes is a great way to reduce risk.

Twinway two days ago. Gravity wouldn't be kind to Microspikers on this softening snowpack.

When in challenging mountain terrain, Microspikes are toys. Unfortunately it sometimes take a failure of Micropsikes to learn this (and there have been some serious injuries over the years). My wake up call was on East Osceola years ago. It would be interesting to know if the injury was from...

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-Trekking poles are very helpful in allowing one to take measured steps. -If there's room, traversing also helps. -Getting the hang of glissading while still standing also helps for those rare times that a mountain snowshoe loses purchase (most likely in powder conditions on top of...

A good mountain snowshoe will allow you to walk down most any packed snow surface. The Tubbs Flex line is very good for this. They will consistently outperform Microspikes.

Interesting to see how history is changing before our very eyes... March 6, 2021: March 6, 2011:

I think the murder of William McKinley was a pretty big 'historical wrong.' Ironically some of the same folks in this cancel mob were against renaming Mt. Clay a few years ago, because he was 'The Great Compromiser.' One of his greatest compromises being the creation of the Fugitive Slave Law...

And a quick glance at the patch explains the context of the name of the hiking game.

A controversy was manufactured that resulted in driving traffic to a White Mountain blog that just happens to sell products to hikers? Deja vu.

This is the first time I've ever seen a racial connotation associated with trail redlining. Trails on the AMC hiking maps are red. It is a common practice to draw on maps with red Sharpie as one completes a trail. I do not know of any racist redliners. I do not think Redline Guiding is...

In light of some of the suggestions, I have to reiterate searching the conditions reports. The Mt. Morgan and Mt. Percival trailheads/parking lots are closed for mud season each spring, sometimes through early May.

NewEnglandTrailConditions.com has a dozen years of conditions reports that can be searched by peak, by trail, by month. Conditions vary significantly by year. Last year was a last spring with some late storms; I was still using snowshoes in a few places in late May.

I'll take my turn as old man shaking his fist at the cloud... My primary concerns with sledding on hiking trails are: 1) Safety. There has been SAR activity over the years from folks getting severely injured while buttsledding. 2) Trail conditions. Buttsliding often pulls snow off the...

NewEnglandTrailConditions.com has a dozen years of reports that can be searched by peak, by month. Spring varies significantly; last year I was still using snowshoes up high on May 24.

There are some of us hoi polloi up in the sticks who are stuck with those nasal probes still. The beautiful people may have less invasive testing, but there are also some significant concerns about accuracy. And again, if masks stop the spread, and schools are fully masked, then why does...

N95 masks are said to provide protection to the wearer when handled properly (e.g. by a trained medical professional) and frequently disinfected/replaced. N95 masks do not stop the spread of COVID-19 to others.

Considering the tests are point-in-time, you'd be proposing to do this to a majority of children on a regular basis? And, if the masks are so effective in the mask-mandated-schools, then why does the testing even matter?

False premise. As the data clearly show, mask mandates are not preventing the killing "a few million people." 1. Protect the vulnerable. The most vulnerable, particularly those in nursing homes, continue to die in the largest numbers. Obviously we can't just keep repeating the same actions...

Some of the deadliest outbreaks of COVID-19 in the region have been at government-run nursing homes. We're nearly a year into this pandemic, yet mask mandates and other measures are clearly not preventing the tragic deaths at nursing homes. There will never be perfect "compliance" unless we...