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This is so cool. I wish I'd heard of all of this before my 2009 hike... I'd love to hear how your plans work out. Happy trails!

Both times I've been on the trail, the only people I've seen on the trail have been on Pitcher Mountain (half a mile of trail from the parking lot to summit), and on Monadnock and Sunapee. I imagine it gets more crowded in summer, but I wouldn't worry too much about crowds in May. Although, I...

I haven't been there in a couple of years, but I'm thinking of hiking the MSG late in April. I can let you know how it goes when I do that. Two years ago I hiked it in late April (trip report here) and it was fantastic! I think that was a very dry and hot spring, so I'm not sure if the dryness...

Couldn't hurt to try calling the store directly to ask. It's always possible someone who is there now knew (or knows) him. I bet if you told them why you're trying to find him, someone would be interested in tracking him down. Might make for a good story later on, too :-)

While very true that wool and synthetic and treated down retain their insulating values when wet, the part that the marketing departments always leave out is that insulation isn't the only part of the equation of keeping you warm. Insulation protects from radiant heat loss, but being wet will...

I don't have first hand experience with treated down, but I do have extensive experience using plain down for long periods in very wet weather, so make of this what you will. I find the marketing claims of synthetic vs down wetting out to be pretty overblown in general— I've gone through days of...

http://bethelcitizen.com/?p=584 Too early to say what exactly will come of it, but it sounds like a positive development in this long story. Let's hope it leads to good things!

We took advantage of the fresh powder yesterday to hike up Red Ridge Trail, then across the Moat Mountain Trail to North Moat, and then back down to Diana's Bath parking area. Broke trail the entire way, with snowshoes absolutely necessary the whole way, with at least 6 inches of new, fluffy...

Started from the end of Enid Melrose Road-- no designated parking here, but enough space to pull a car off on the side. First few miles were groomed snowmobile trail, then light snowpack until the Evergreen Valley Link. There were old snowshoe tracks from this point until the summit. Snow pack...

I'm visiting my folks in Belfast for the week, and sure glad I got in last night. As of now, there's about 3mm of ice coating my car, and tree limbs are starting to snap. Word from a friend in Camden says the rain is coming down a little harder there, with a quarter inch of ice on the trees already.

Saw this on Facebook last night. https://www.facebook.com/GreenMountainClub/posts/10152056134629474:0 Thought it might be interesting to folks here. I don't really have any more info to add for discussion, but that was a relatively short stint compared to the previous executive director.

A friend of mine last saw his Olympus tough camera at the Grafton Notch trailhead parking lot last night, just before we all got in the car to drive to the Grafton Loop south trailhead. It's a black/grey camera, and it was getting dark, so it must have slipped out of his pocket at one of the two...

I was up there in early August this year, and the trail is very well marked, hard to miss. The junction is directly where the Glencliff Trail hits the Carriage Trail, and there's a sign that says "South Peak 0.1 mile". I think the 0.1 is a bit off, but it's definitely there.

Hugh and Jeanne are pretty much my favorite people in Vermont. During the summer of 2009, I was leading a trail crew for VYCC between Stratton Pond and Stratton Mountain, and Hugh & Jeanne were like parents for the whole crew. We all piled into their cabin up top on so many occasions just to...

Quite the feat! I think that's a record that will stand for a long time :-) So what was your longest day? How about hardest?

Doh! This trip will be the 19th. I guess I could always park at a trailhead and hike a half mile in to set up camp for the night. Thanks for all the input, folks!

That is good to know, Gaiagirl, and definitely helpful. Thanks! I'll probably explore other options, in that case.

This seems similar to a few other questions that have been raised recently... I'll be in Conway the weekend after this coming one, and I'm hoping to find a place to camp that's not far from a road. Assuming the larger Forest Service campgrounds are still closed by then, are there any roadside...

Balls contacted me to clarify that the "First" that he mentioned was specifically the Official CDT Route without alternatives: I hadn't read through the linked Trailjournals.com entry because I just don't like reading trailjournals.com, and my previous comment in response to Kevin's was in...

Hehe. Bus stop indeed :-) When I was working at the Green Mountain Club and advising people on backpacking trips, I often had people ask about staying in a shelter I'd never heard of. Turned out they were using their 1970s or 1980s Long Trail Guide and assuming nothing had changed. The Green...