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Grumpy, congrats on fighting and winning your battle with cancer and best wishes on your continuing to keep it at bay. I really do believe that hiking and the general good health benefits from hiking provide the basis for a strong struggle and recovery from cancer and its related treatments. I...

GREAT post. The outfitter in Damascus did just what you described in your post and concluded that I had been using the wrong size insole because I was indeed buying for the length of my feet and not my arch. However, even with the proper size Superfeet, I had BIG issues. The SOLE insoles...

I honestly think insoles are highly dependent on each individual. On the AT last year, foot issues drove me to almost daily tears for the first half of the trail. I started in a pair of green superfeet and the foot pain was unbearable at times. About 2 weeks and over 100 miles into the hike...

A group of us do this each year and we use the Roadhouse as our "base camp". It is open year round and has all the needed luxuries except an oven (does have a stovetop and microwave). sli74

Great TR. Nice to meet you at the West Bond spur. Of course, we didn't know it was you at the time :) It sure was a beautiful day to be out on the ridgelines. sli74

Okay, that was really funny. Great TR . . . :)

There were two hikers who were on the Bonds with us earlier in the day and one of them had lost a pair of goggles. sli74

Sabrina, I am the same way . . . once I am on a peak, particularly one that has a view, however limited, I can recognize it from other peaks, it is strange and I can't explain it except to know that it is almost always true. sli74

getting up to Webster from 302 and the final steep pitch up Jackson are two that immediately come to mind. sli74

True, true !!! I forgot.

I don't know how someone handicapped would have gotten up there without a lift but the handicapped chair skis leave a track that looks like that. Maybe? sli74

Would a bird fly that low? Dragging something behind it? What a mystery. :) sli74

There is dinner both nights actually, one night is Indian food and the other night I change the menu up each year and this year I think it will be Chinese or Thai . . . sli74

Trainwreck, There will be other trips in the future and I am sure we will have a chance to slowly amble in the back of the group sometime soon. :) sli74

We are going to be stubborn and still go on our previously scheduled trip starting Saturday morning. Hope the rain ends by then and keeping my fingers crossed that we will beat the worst of it down on Sunday? Here's to hoping. sli74

I have always previously treated the water at Guyot Spring just because it is such a well used area. Of course I almost always treat my water with the exception of twice on the AT last year when the water was literally "springing" up from a rock and I was beyond thirsty. I know lots of people...

Congrats !!! Love your pics. Sticking to the tote road is the way to go ;) we won't be making the mistake again, ya know. Your report makes me really miss Baxter in winter. Definitely next year. sli74

Same here !!! Though it was COLD.

Well, foolish is my middle name :D I haven't done this on a Bonds Traverse so maybe I am just "talking the talk" . . . but on a 100+ degree day, I walked over a mile and 600 feet of elevation loss and subsequent gain to get more water because I hadn't wanted to carry the gallon worth of water...

Ooops, I guess I added to that beating. :o sli74