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If you're willing to be south of Franconia Notch, Hancock Campground is open year-round.

On some of the Eureka tents with this style pole end, they are designed so that the "pin end" goes in first, and *then* the tent is tightened around it (the Timberlines work this way, for example). I frequently see issues with Scouts setting these up and put the pin in last, which doesn't work...

Well, the "adult" version goes by names like "Ensure". In college, I had a buddy who lived on that stuff exclusively for several months as part of a nutrition study. He survived. He got paid. I do not recall him telling us how great it was.

except for the minor detail that she activated her PLB. Which argues persuasively against "knocked out".

Interesting. You say the InReach SE uses an internal, rechargeable battery, *NOT* AAs. I consider this a giant "minus" for a piece of gear that I might depend on for safety. I can carry a spare set of Lithium AAs or AAAs, but what the heck do you do on the side of the mountain if your...

Note that on InReach (and probably SPOT, too), the pre-canned messages (at the satellite level) are literally the numbers "1", "2", and "3". it is the server/website that converts those to text and routes them to the SMS phone numbers or e-mail addresses. So the message itself is pretty...

I was wondering that same thing. PLBs are supposed to transmit for a minimum of 24 hours, and once rescuers are on the ground, the homing receiver is how they find it, not the position reported by the satellite tracking. If it was activated at 3:30PM Sunday, it should have still been...

Note that PLBs are NOT designed to be "wicked accurate". They are intended to get rescuers close enough that the hand-held 121.5MHz receivers can provide directional information to locate the victim. http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/personal-locator-beacons.html The quotes from the F&G...

There's also the Shapleigh Bunkhouse, but I know that will ignite the ire of the "AMC IS DUH DEBIL" crowd.

Fogging: liner gloves with a soft microfleece sort of surface you can run over them in & out when it gets bad. Or a bandana. I'd love another idea, but the coatings don't seem to work. Lasik might be the only real solution.

My limited experience w/transitions lenses isn't that they go dark in the cold, it's that they are wicked slow to clear when it's cold. So, you hike up the mountain, hit the bright open summit, turn around and when you go back into the trees you are suddenly blind. The cure is either patience...

And I get cash back from my REI credit card to feed my gear habit :-)

So, I can't compare the Flex ALP vs the Flex TRK, but I can give a first-impression of the TRK vs the MSR Evo Ascents. At first glance, the designs are similar -- plastic deck, metal rails riveted underneath, similar pivots. Toe crampons appear similar, though the Tubbs design looks like it...

If anybody can find me a replacement for this hat I will be a happy, happy person. I used to call it "the stupid hat" based on appearance. I lost it (I think) after a hike up Mt Martha about 3 years ago In fact, I think this pic was the hike I lost it on, about 2 weeks after the dog photo). The...

16 degrees? That's almost chilly enough to put pants on!

Energizer is basically synonymous with cheap made-in-China. I bought these locally because we needed a bunch of AAAs on short notice, and the bulk of my NIMH batteries are AAs. Probably a mistake.

I had 2 sets of 4 AAAs, all basically new. They claim to come pre-charged, but failed to operate when put in the device, so I popped them in the charger. Next morning the C9000 said it had successfully charged them to 4 times their rated capacity.... All "Energizer Recharge". I'll see what the...

Don't the low discharge batteries generally require a slower charge rate? At least the MAHA is adjustable, unlike a lot of cheap-o chargers. But I attempted to charge a set of low-discharge AAAs the other day (claimed capacity about 850mAh), and the MAHA C9000 reported at the end that it had...

Garfield exceeds your 10 mile distance due to the road walk, but nobody counts road walks, right? There's also the Tripyramids via Pine Bend Brook. You can adjust the distance by deciding how many peaks to do.

I believe that Stephanie is probably not a twenty something male from Boston.