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I was wondering about the experience people have had with different knee braces. I took my girlfiend for her first major trek (Mt. Moriah, what a great view). Her history is arthroscopic knee surgery twenty years ago for ligament problems. No significant problems since then. She got pretty stiff...

Is there another one out there? Didn't someone also go missing two winters ago from a trail off Rte 3 (Gale River area)? I don't remember that one being resolved. Was that person ever found?

I still think it's a dog Really. I still think it's a dog.

It looks like a dog It's a dog

It's just plain brown (and a comment on toads) I was on Cabot today, and it looked like every single deciduous tree was brown. And from a distance, it did not look like just leaf edges; everything looked brown (of course, I did not bother to check the trees right around me carefully, I was just...

Fat? It's not your fault any more! This thread started out on "fat and lazy" issues (and I don't mean to detract from drunken sports discussions, really). The lazy part is easy to understand, it's that fat part that is always so perplexing. Now I understand why--it's not our fault! It's those...

But did you read the fine print? It looks like not everybody is happy about these so-called nacreous clouds. Did you notice what Dr. Klekociuk said (and I know, everybody thinks this fellow is always the sour apple in the barrel): "These clouds are more than just a curiosity. They reveal...

Cumulonimbus mamma When I took metereology 101 100 years ago, this was my favorite cloud. If part of a thunderhead (cumulonimbus) then it is, if I recall, a really really bad sign. Here is a handy cloud chart for all of us armchair and ridgewalking forecasters. Cheers

Best Radar for Storms Usually I just look at the www.erh.noaa.gov sites for radar. This week my brother turned me onto the NEXRAD radar at www.wunderground.com, which has some pretty cool features. There is a tab for the NEXRAD radar, and you can throw in six frames of animation (more if you...

I was intrigued by some of the dire weather warnings which preceeded the present heat wave. There were warnings up for possible derechos, or Mesoscale Convective Systems. Looking through some old posts, some folks were out in the Ontario-Adirondack Derecho of 1995, which knocked down millions...

Check this thread There has been a lot of discussion about this potential wind power site. What do you think of it?

I'm surprised I don't see all kinds of solar-powered gear popping up in catalogues. It seems it should be pretty easy to fashion a solar cell onto a backpack to allow for trickle charging of batteries for those marathon trips. Has anybody bumped into useful solar gear for the backpacking set?

Inside Projects are Done I feel like the kid in Karate Kid, where he had to spend the first several days of training painting fences, washing things--go left go right go up go down. Well the wallpaper is down, there is new paint everywhere. But now I am completely out of my year's indoor...

Naked everything else I've never hiked in the nude or encountered others, and have no plans to do so. I would be concerned about shocking other people with the detailed view of my aging carcass. And my feet just aren't up for the challenge (unlike those barefoots summers of hippie youth). And...

How about a VFFT sweat band? Tattooing the forehead would be a stretch, but would certainly be advantageous. But a headband . . . that would be a statement. Alligator eggs worked for me to flush out Alpinsta, but that was in a downtown garage and the VFFT window sticker in her car was kind of...

Another survival tale on Everest The NY Times had another story today: "Dead" Climber's Survival Impugns Mount Everest Ethics . As for climbing Everest, with all of those assumptions about being fit and having the cash, I'm up for the assault. I like to think that my 51 years on the planet...

Next time I'm bringing my bike When we did the Tripyramids a couple years ago, for some reason the walk out on Livermore was much longer than the walk in. I could not stop thinking about riding down and out, just one long glorious coast back to the parking lot. Too bad about those annoying...

Terraplane XS Backpack? Shopping for my girlfriend, and looking for feedback on this specfic model. She won't be carrying enormous loads, and will probably be lucky enough to get stuck with light, bulky items (I don't mind being the pack horse). I love the old Dana design quality (but now...

I'd pick Carrigain In fact, it's what I've chosen to wrap up the NH 48 and the NY/NE 115. I had hoped to do that this fall, but the goal is proving slightly elusive at the moment. It looks like a perfect peak to end with: great views, reasonably accessible, a nice place to bring your closest...

Wow I just read Pete's trip report from last year. What a slouch! He didn't even do any trail work while he was up there on that 3 day ramble! The longest trip I even put in on my bike was around 125 miles, no gear, just my sagging ass. And I definitely wasn't picking off any 46'rs the next...