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I can't speak for Bryan and Tom but I know I wasn't really looking around the auditorium at how many people were still in there. For me it's just a nice way to see friends, familiar faces, and meet some fellow hikers. I was quite surprised Eric made a note of the single season since I don't...

Just did it today. For those that know the route or can follow a compass bearing, go for it. The crossings were still low. Black Pond BW was a mix of mud, bare ground, and not terribly deep rotten snow (you won't have an easily to follow snowshoe track due to the bare ground). Probably will...

4-10-13 Lincoln Woods was a mix of mud and very slick ice, barebooting was the only way to go with the changing terrain. Black Pond Trail was maybe 70% packed snow with the remainder being bare ground. The first half of the Black Pond BW was a mix of mud, bare ground, and rotten snow. With...

4-9-13 It poured all night long and all morning but thankfully the weather cleared in the afternoon so I got a late start up for just the Osceolas. I did the whole hike in microspikes. It was a little soft down below the climb. The glissaders have left a super smooth surface for the climb up...

4-8-13 Got a super late start and did all peaks in the dark so conditions were a little soft at the start of the hike and gradually firmed up. Trail was nicely broken out up to Cannon, I used snowshoes. Trail well broken out down to Coppermine Col where only a set or two of tracks continued...

I'd clean off any soot so it's less obvious it's a stove. A wise man (Arm) gave me a suggestion last fall for flying with a whisperlite--put it in a clear bag and label it as a water pump. Not sure it would pass the sniff test with a pocket rocket but maybe you can get creative.

Haven't seen the movie but +1 on the book being excellent. Thanks for posting Chip, interesting read.

100%. Start just after the big rocks, don't aim for the summit and instead head straight up to intercept the ridge (in January I intentionally wanted to hit the ridge nice and low and set out due west and was on the ridge within half an hour at 2700 ft). From there the mostly open ridge will...

Damn what a picture! Glad you guys had such a good day up there!

Yes, I would expect almost everyone would come in from above in Winter but that's not much of a challenge (not throwing stones, I was just looking for something hard). It's a ~3 mile hike up a virtually always broken out trail versus trailbreaking for the better part of 8 miles for the same...

Thanks Bryan, it was fun teaming up to do a few peaks this winter. Congrats on finishing the w-nehh as well! It was pretty valuable being able to share beta back and forth a few times this winter. We couldn't get that darn cannister open up on Boundary either. Looking forward to catching up...

I missed Winter by about a week but I went up the Gulf yesterday; trail conditions: http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?48614-Great-Gulf-Trail-3-30-13 We went in with the hopes of doing some practice with self-arrest, running belays, and ski some turns. Turns out the Gulf is...

3-30-13 Headed up late on the 29th and made camp by the 6 husbands junction, breaking trail from just after the Jackson Rd split onwards where some tracks ended (barebootable before that). On our way in no other trails were broken out (Osgood, Osgood Cutoff, Madison Gulf, Old Jackson Rd...

<continued> dos peaks left for Pat on the nehh-ss I woke up about 5:30 and dozed in my bag, not wanting to get out of it. At 5:45, we heard a voice and saw a flashlight being trained on our tent. I don't remember his exact words except "United States Border Patrol". The leader asked us to...

<continued> It's about 2:00 and we start out along Burnt Mtn Rd, heading NW for a couple miles and pick up Big Canyon Rd at a junction. Making good time on the snowmobile packed road with an inch or so of new powder, we heading north on it, being passed by a couple snowmobilers coming south...

3/14/13-3/16/13 This is the summary of a trip Tom Caldwell and I did a few weeks back (written by Tom) to the Rangeley Six-Pack March 14-16 to complete the New England Hundred Highest List during the winter season. We had previously hiked one of the Six Pack, East Kennebago on February 7, so we...

Thanks Jonathan. Grab Carmen and we should get together for a hike sometime soon! Thanks Maineman. I haven't read that yet though I have read Annapurna--it's in my reading queue. It is pretty neat what we hikers can achieve when we put our minds to something! Thanks Dude, appreciate it...

Very cool! I like the outside the box way of thinking in going after this list in effectively 1/2 a winter season. Kudos!

I definitely did not start out hiking this winter thinking I would do what I ended up doing. I like that it worked out that way; sometimes it is the pursuit of the goal that is draining. Part of what made this winter so fun and unexpected is that last winter I did just one hike. Life got in...

Congrats! What a great place to finish too.