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Additional NH Fire Towers Information I'd like to provide additional information regarding New Hampshire fire towers. As far as I know, Iris Baird of Lancaster, NH compiled the first comprehensive list of NH fire towers. She has published two fire tower field guides: A Field Guide to New...

Wild Things 2013 Katydid or didn't she? Splish splash I was taking a bath... Dark-eyed Junco Wolf Spider Green Frog Black Bear eating my Raspberries. Old Sam Peabody. White-throated Sparrow. Spruce Grouse Gray Jay coming in for a landing. Not for the squeamish. A fully...

As an FYI...the Forest Service will be doing a relocation of that extremely wet section of trail that was severely washed out by Irene. The relocation will be done in 2014. River crossings will remain mostly wet. :D

Congratulations, Chickety!!!

My neighbors Ray and Joan Chaput, both 82, are doing trail work! Ray and Joan have been performing trail work on the Cohos Trail in the Pittsburg area for the last three years. They are performing trail maintenance, building bog bridges and even relocating trails. I had an opportunity to work...

Today, on Cannon Mountain, over 20 hikers accompanied Gary T. as he completed his Grid. Gary doesn't post on VFTT but certainly lots of people know him. A tremendous tailgate party completed the day with J&J grid dogs being the specialty. Gary was accompanied by 11 other grid finishers making...

Best of luck on your new adventures, Ed. The White Mountain community will miss you.

Turn this: and this: Into this: Along this stretch of trail: Help turn these: Into new floorboards for this: Volunteer a day of trail work on Mt. Carrigain. Contact Cristin Bailey today!

Excellent!!!! Way to pull it off!!!!

Congratulations, Earl and Sue! That's a whole lot of hiking but also a whole lot of fun to complete the 48x12. That's also a whole lot of snowmen built along the trail. :D John & June Grid Finishers #17

You probably weren't too far behind us, Tim. We were in the clouds for most of the day but the skies finally starting clearing up as we neared Little Haystack. A great day on the ridge. John

Just to let you know, Kevin, I could see Whiteface with my naked eye, no other aids were necessary. I could see several other peaks in the 'Daks but I couldn't name them. From Lafayette, I can also see Macomb with my naked eye on a good day. One just has to know where to look. The picture I...

I happened to hike Moosilauke on Sunday and took this picture from the summit. This shows the Sugarbush ski area in Vermont and to the right in the distance is Mt. Whiteface in NY. I also have seen Macomb from the summit of Lafayette before. I have a picture of that also that I'll look for. John

Went up Osceola from Tripoli Rd. Large sections of very icy spots as to be expected on this side of the mountain. Going up, I didn't wear any traction and was able to pick my way around the icy spots. There was a dusting of snow to 1"-2". From Osceola to East peak, conditions improved...

A new club along with a new patch has recently been formed. It's a very exclusive club with less than ten known members at this time. It follows the old AMC 4k club rules with a twist. To join this club, one must be over 70 years old. The requirement is to hike the 48 four thousand footers...

We went to the Smokies the last week of April a number of years ago. The last week of April is normally their peak wildflower season and we agree. We counted almost 90 different wildflowers in bloom. There were no bugs although they did have a very late season snowstorm that dropped 6" on the...

The 770 are the summits over 3,000' in the northeast. The NHHH would be included in that list but the NH200 are not. The NH200 has 25 peaks that are below 3,000'.

There are actually several variations of the NHHH lists and that is not the one I used. There are a few differences. Last I knew, there have been less than 30 people that have completed the NHHH in winter. That is a great achievement to do those peaks in winter considering approx. 35 of the...

I did a hike yesterday and walked a few sections of trail that have the best cairns in the Whites. In this trip report, I decided to just show pictures of cairns. Cairns are our watchdogs (showing us the way to go), our saviors (at times), our friends (some of them we've seen over and over...