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I just bought LipSmackin Backpacking for a my nephew who wants to get into overnight trips. I have LipSmackin Vegetarian Backpacking which has terrific recipes. This year's good reads: Up, Following Atticus. I've also started reading Becoming Odyssa, and The Appalachian Trail: Celebrating...

My heart is filled with happiness. I've never hiked the LT at this time of year. Beautiful. I love Vermont, and I enjoyed your report. Thanks and congrats.

Wow. A very nice day. Your pictures make me want to go back and hike the same trail with my good camera. My pictures never come out so amazing.

I've seen it spelled different ways and I'm not sure which is correct. This link may help. Or this one.

Excellent! Nice work for your young one. We'll be staying at Lonesome Lake next month. I wasn't thinking my 3 year old was up for it, but maybe we'll try it. I can always carry her still. (I carried her up to Cannon last Columbus Day weekend.) We'll be taking her cousins age 5 and 7 up to the...

I've enjoyed the Jerusalem Trail up to that ridge. My favorite way would be from Lincoln Gap over Mt. Abraham because I love that peak. The warming hut at Mad River Glen now has a rain barrel that one can treat or filter from if you go that way from or towards App Gap. The spring west of the...

I felt like I got to know things I didn't need to know and we've been married 15 years. Exactly. If it ends up a learning experience or warning for anyone else, all the better. Thanks.

We visited the Grand Canyon and hiked down to the bottom in August. It was 123 in the shade and I wouldn't necessarily recommend that time of year, unless it is the only time you get vacation.:) We camped at the campground, but had dinner at Phantom Ranch and breakfast. And lemonade. I recall...

Pemi Loop and a Case for More Water Part 2 Gig and I do plenty of long endurance type events together. Often times between 2/3 and 3/4 of the way through there is some sort of mental breakdown. We always recover quickly-usually after eating a bunch of Oreos-, but one of us still has it. Here it...

Pemi Loop, Friday July 6, 2012 Part 1 After organizing a babysitter, my husband Gig aka The Anti-Zen and I headed up to Lincoln to the Hancock Campground Thursday night. We set our alarms, watches and phones for 3:30 AM and slept in the back of his Honda Element which was actually kinda...

I really haven't had a chance to write a TR, but want to briefly write how things went for me. Generally GREAT! The pemi loop was awesome and my food/ hydration was perfect. Most of my inspiration for what to bring for food came from one of Lriz's reports. (Thank you. Thank you!) I was never...

Great. I am glad you are close and it works. It's a nice spot for a quick trip. They recently redid the parking area and the put in. Have fun!

I like it. It's nice to know that a comment or report is read and appreciated. Now I write and wonder if it is worth writing. So, thanks. I didn't follow the entire 10 page thread completely, but it sort of seemed like plenty of people don't miss it? Oh well.

I have a three year old and have put together some toddler hikes. Last summer we did three of them. (Toddlers on Top I called them, inspired by this site. We always hiked to Pack Monadnock.) So, I'd be interested. That weekend might have potential for us. I'll PM you.

Hi, I live in Nashua, and there is a place we paddle here: the Nashua River from Mine Falls Park. I'm not sure it's worth the drive from Boston, but it's not weed chocked or filled with swimmers. And you don't kneed to worry about tides. You could go a ways I think. We've only gone about an hour...

Here's what ended up working for me: Breakfast: 1/2 whole wheat bagel and PB, banana, 20oz of Tang, 12 oz water, one Gu On the trail: 4 and a half energy bars (variety, honey stinger, cliff, odwalla), 4 Gu's, one Snickers bar, hunk of bread at hut, some gummy bears. To drink, pre-hut I had 50...

A friend send me this message. Thought I'd post because it was helpful. :) Saw your post on VFTT - I'm not a member (just a lurker) so thought I'd write you offline. First of all, good luck on your pemi loop! I've done 3 Pemi loops - and am planning a fourth for this coming Monday. I've gone...

Hello, Two of us are going out for our 1st pemi loop this weekend. We decided on clockwise and are shooting for 14 hours or better, starting very early and jogging when possible. I've run the Wapack Trail, 21 miles in 5 hours so I'm hoping this is doable. We got a babysitter for the day and want...

I've been getting ready for an upcoming backpacking trip all day and getting a friend ready as well so I just went through the top to bottom (actually bottom to top) what's in my pack list. Your list is great. I like all the tips and recommended brands and stores to get stuff. Here is some...

Trails were dry and excellently maintained, not a blown down to be stepped over or ducked under. Bugs not biting yet. Tolerable at the summits if you keep moving. Heard Bicknell's thrush. Tame male spruce grouse displaying just down the trail past Waumbek. Busy trail today, full parking lots...