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There is a well-defined trail. If you Google for "Galehead winter route" you might turn up one of the numerous trip reports that include a gps track or map.

Look for the piles of scat full of bear bells :-)

I can't control remotely, but I have an Internet-accessible temperature monitor, and a dial-out power alarm. Unfortunately, the heating system itself is too high-tech (standard on/off thermostats can't interface to it) so adapting one of the internet T-stats is "difficult". Yes, I keep it all...

I'm a recent "half transplant", having bought a place a little over a year ago. I'm still readjusting the rest of my life to use it effectively... I always "dreamed" of lakefront, since so many vacation spots that I used with friends/family over the years were on lakes/ponds. It would be useful...

Yeah, WTH. How was that even legal?

Well, but NP keeps claiming that have a r-o-w through the WMNF, so it must be true..... As the trail adopter for the Reel Brook Trail, I'm pretty sure many of my outings will be impacted if that alleged r-o-w is allowed to grow some new, horrendous towers rather than being forced underground...

Well, I would mention that fear is good. It make sure that you do everything you can to avoid it.

Rescue on Little Haystack-NHF&G insists that hiking solo is a "serious error". http://www.unionleader.com/article/20131212/NEWS07/131219682 "Sutmeier said Fielding made three serious errors: going off trail, hiking alone, and not checking the weather before starting out." Of these, 1 is...

I don't have any photochromatic goggles, but I do usually wear photochromatic prescription glasses. They MOST DEFINITELY have issues in the cold, which is one reason that I always cough up for 2 pairs of glasses every time my prescription changes: one photochromatic, one clear. It's a...

I carry a small roll of duct tape in my first aid kit (sealed in a ziploc) for first-aidy things, and a tube/roll of Tenacious Tape for cloth gear repair. I can see where tape "left out" in the weather on a pole/bottle would tend to self-destruct over time. I suppose if you use a lot of it, you...

The power lines (15KV if I remember correctly?) are buried parallel to the cog tracks all the way to the top. When they were putting them in, they had excavators and other heavy equipment all up and down the mountain -- I was surprised there wasn't a bigger uproar when it was going on, but I...

Wasn't washed away at all. One of the stringers completed rotted out and collapsed. The decking, etc. is stashed in the tunnel.

Was there today - it definitely feels temporary. My first reaction was "why didn't they just throw this where the old bridge was"? (which rotted through, it wasn't washed away). I then noticed that it is actually in 2 sections, with a center support midstream. I can't believe anyone thinks...

And most of those it looks like the self-arrest didn't actually stop the fall, it was the back-up anchor.... Of course, that may have been the point they were trying to make.

Way fancier than you were looking for, but Cooke Custom Sewing makes some awesome silnylon tarps. Smallest is 8x10 @ 14.1 oz. http://www.cookecustomsewing.com/tundratarp.htm. The attachment loops are awesome. I own 2 of the 10x12s. I've used them in a variety of shelter/leanto arrangements...

Speaking of the Flume, is there a trail map of this area available? I know it's not an incredibly complicated area, but they carefully remove all the signs when they close the visitor center... and the trails I remember walking last winter don't seem to really line up with what I see on the Topos.

Actually "pointy traction devices" come in a wide range of pointy-ness. Microspikes are the "low end" and things like 10-point mountaineering crampons are the "high end". You'll probably find a dozen lengthy, heated threads somewhere here extolling the virtues of different spiky-things. In my...

Everyone's jumping in with the favorite 4K, but, let's be honest, there's no such thing as an "easy" winter 4K, there's just less hard. There's plenty of fine, high-reward winter hiking that doesn't require huge elevation gains. I think Tecumseh was my first "winter" 4K because it was touted as...

What's all this "give way" stuff? You meet people on the trail on a beautiful snowy day, you stop and chat, talk about the weather, find out about the great view up ahead/brag about the great view you just saw. Middle of the week is rough around here.

As of 10/26/13 the signage had been removed from the lower end of the Mittersill Trail, and the Cannon Mtn Base lodge still has all the "No Hiking on Ski Trails" notices. While they don't make snow on the Mittersill side, they probably already frown on hiking the Mittersill to Cannon stretch for...