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Nice to meet you too. Perhaps we'll cross paths on a trail someday soon. I was taken by your post in the "Glamping" topic, because I've had the same experience you did: Camping with backpacking gear in a tents-only site in a big, luxurious car-camping campground and having to pay full fare...

Thank you for the green-spot -- much appreciated! It's a great loop hike and I hope you have a chance to do it soon.

Any friend of rocket21's is a friend of mine!

Thank you for the gift of the green-spot. The ledges of Moriah and Shelburne-Moriah have a Sierra-like quality to them -- they remind me of the kind of granite sheets you find in so many places in (what John Muir called) the Range of Light. Oh, and hey, HBD a day late!

Thanks for the green spot. Great area indeed! We'll be back when it's a little cooler.

Thank you again for the nice green spot. Hope you had a good hike over the loop -- hot, though, huh?

Thanks again, everyone. Tuckerman's coloring is typical of his breed, Plott hound. (He's not a purebred; there's a little lab in him. We got him last winter from a rescue shelter in Vermont.) "Brindle" is the technical word for it, but I prefer "caramel-fudge ripple." Brindle-colored cats are...

What a wonderful TR. Thanks for the writing and photography (and, as Darren said, the explanations of some of the photography). I ran into mosquitoes like that in the Wind River Range in Wyoming several years ago -- diving into the tent just to eat in peace!

Thank you for these very kind comments, which I value and appreciate. It is noted that rocket summoned all his strength to resist a Michael Bolton reference. But then, this was a Cosby kind of hike. Gillian, did Tuckerman and I cross your path on the trail? We reached the Moriah...

I think I must've taken in about 130 ounces as well. Even though the temperatures up high weren't extreme -- they were in the 70s, I think -- the humidity was brutal. Probably everyone who was hiking yesterday suffered. Bring on autumn!

Jeremy, yeah, we've got to do this loop. It was pretty wonderful even in the heat, but in the fall I think it'd be stunning. I thought of you yesterday in the Dry River area -- how was that hike? Meantime, thanks as always for the green-spot.

Same here!

Trails: Moriah Brook, Carter-Moriah, Kenduskeag, Shelburne Total miles: 15 Time: 10 hours* Steve Smith, in his book "The 4,000-Footers of the White Mountains," describes the 15-mile loop over these two peaks from a start at the Wild River campground as "spectacular," and for good reason: not...

I wish I could have gotten away from work to join you on either the Hancocks or Tri's. I hope you had a great hike wherever you wound up exploring. /Steve

Happy to give out greenies for excellence, my friend. Say, when you and I and Jeremy et al are up on Moosilauke for TrishandAlex Day, let's talk about doing an Elwell Traverse before winter sets in. I'd love to hike the length of the trail with you, and it sounds like Jeremy is interested too...

It does seem like the appropriate Claude Rains epitaph would be: "I'm shocked, shocked to find myself dead."

I offered to help celebrate the big birthday by singing "When A Man Loves a Woman" ala Michael Bolton at both summits of Owl's Head, but was told in no uncertain terms to hike and sing somewhere else out of earshot -- like in Wyoming. Those loansharks must have mystical powers to get rocket21...

Wow, lots of great information at that Heart of New Hampshire site. Thank you for posting the link, Jazzbo. There are a few artifacts from Bette Davis's connection to Sugar Hill in the back of the Sugar Hill Sampler store near Polly's Pancakes. And the fellow who owns Franconia Notch Vacation...

I am HUGELY impressed! The North Slide is among the three or four steepest trail climbs in the Whites. For a seven-year-old kid to make it up there with no more agony than a little crossness with her mother over a spoken remark is amazing. Alex is beyond a trooper; she's a marine.

Thanks for the greenie, Jason. Glad you like the boot story.