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See this blog entry: http://sectionhiker.com/bare-boxer-contender-a-small-2-3-day-bear-canister/ I have the Bare Boxer Contender 101 (based on the data in this article and my hiking patterns). Philip has a good list of specs and source in this posting. You'll have to figure out which ones are...

Note that these free sites are almost always full on weekends in the summer. They can be hard to get on Thursdays. But, if your schedule is flexible, they're pretty easy to snag on Sunday night. For example, all 11 sites on Haystack Road were occupied this weekend, but by Sunday @ 3PM, all but...

Last summer when I was on the summit of Jefferson, eating lunch and enjoying the scenery, me and 50 or 100 of my closest friends got to witness a girl take a dump inbetween a couple of rocks downslope at the trail junction where the Castle Trail joins the Mt Jefferson Loop. Pretty sure she...

I've been using the stripped-down version of this (just the Lite Salt + Water) ever since reading that thread, and it's done wonders for me. I leave out the sugar, figuring I'll get that from the dried fruit (dates/mango/pineapple) and other snacks I eat (and I'd rather not have sugar in my...

Understandable. But, unfortunately that sign was apparently taken down at the beginning of 2014/2015 ski season, and not replaced this spring.....

Did it on Saturday, and the lower portion is a mess due to all the heavy equipment. If it is officially closed, it might be nice to put up an actual sign saying that (there aren't even the normal "no hiking allowed on Cannon Ski Trails" signs). Ran into a group of 3 coming down as I went up...

I checked those coords in my GPS, and they match the locations of 2 of the desi sites that the rangers told me about when I first planned a Davis Path/Mt Isolation backpack 4 years ago. However, I had to cancel that trip and actually went in a year later (Aug 2012), and a followup call to the...

That's all I'm looking for. And as long as they're a long way from the road, they won't get the "party crowds" that doomed the Franconia Brook tentsite and several others. I just want to be able to reasonably 'leave no trace', which can be very hard to do in the dense undergrowth of the Whites...

I always see advice to "don't sleep in the clothes you cook in". So, the protocol is you arrive in camp, set up, change into your special-reserved cooking clothes that you carry in your bear canister w/your food, make dinner, eat, strip down and put the cooking clothes, the food, the trash, and...

You can cross upstream (the Wildcat Ridge Trail crosses right at the highway underpass). I'd bet if you poked around the woods you would find a herd path, if there is any possibility of going in that way. If not, your choice is downstream. There are lots of trails leading downstream, and maybe...

Camping on top of Giant Stairs is fantastic. From the old Resolution shelter site to Mt Isolation on the Davis Path, there are very few legal camping opportunities (Giant Stairs is a desi site, there are no others on Davis Path until you go north of Isolation.) The terrain and vegetation on this...

I saw it coming down rt 3 near Whitefield on Saturday

The Coppermine Shelter is still there. I've never been there when it was being used for an overnight, but it obviously gets used. There is a small (illegal) overflow tenting area across the stream from it. Personally, I wish they'd get more formal about "overflow" areas near the existing...

Greenleaf trail had one short segment of snow in the Eagle Pass col on 5/23/2015, and some scattered monrail in the trees above the hut.

Yes, the Nashua Telegraph should be folded, spindled, mutilated, and humiliated for posting news stories with no dateline. This is about the 4th time I've seen this particular news story pop up over the last 2 1/2 years with "hey, did you read about the rescue in the WMNF this weekend?" There...

I don't think they were "turning people away", but I think they were providing sufficient information for people to make the right choice. When I left the tramway parking lot to head up Lafayette at 8AM, it was 32F. I was a little surprised that it was that chilly, but I put my pants and fleece...

Reel Brook Trail is totally, entirely snow & ice free on 5/16 It was most definitely snowbound on 4/18.

Just saw a trip report/pictures that suggests Starr King is snow-free. NETC report says Hedgehog is snow-free

Too soon to start this year's? Or did I miss it elsewhere?

BTW, the AT&T service above Franconia Notch improved substantially about 4 months ago. I now have to fib when I say "sorry, headed up North for the weekend, and my cellphone won't work". The *******s.