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Pawtuckaway State Park All the trails in Pawtuckaway are snow free and they have cleared almost all of the downed trees. Just a few on the By-Pass trail that are easily climbed over or around. (March 27)

Headed up Blueberry Ledge cut-off following boot tracks. They shortly ended and that is when we put on snowshoes. Broke trail back to Blueberrry ledge Trail. Lots of postholes by a very large moose. One person had been down the Blueberry ledge trail with snowshoes. Lots of snow and...

I thought about skins but money is an issue. Thanks to all who replied. I like the idea of a groove with a dowel on the bottom. Thanks again Nancy

Here is the problem: I work with a little girl who uses a walker. Last week we put a pair of cut down - downhill skiis on an old walker so she can go and play in the snow at recess with her classmates. The problem is that her dry-land walker has wheels that only go straight ahead and the rear...

I really like the microspikes for early winter, late winter, middle of winter. They are lightweight, comfortable and work great on mixed conditions. They won't replace full crampons for above treeline steepness, but that leaves a lot of places where they work great.

12-11-09 Zealand Road is not plowed. There is a set of tire tracks that we used to walk in. It snowed all day today. The wind was not really a factor. We wore snowshoes and broke trail all day. About 1 foot of snow at the start and about 2 feet of snow at higher elevations. Cinder had fun...

Used microspikes all day - there was a combo of mud, ice, snow, running water. Surprising how much snow is still in Crawford Notch. Beautiful sunny day with no wind. Our first time on this peak and we all enjoyed the day. Nancy, Joe & Cinder

Never have, never will. I don't give my dog any meat with bones in it as she is an "inhaler" and doesn't chew things very well. I have heard many stories of dogs getting bones stuck where they shouldn't be. Even humans can get bones lodged in the wrong place! And I also don't feed her anything...

Started on Signal Ridge Trail. Brook crossing required stepping on rocks with some water going over them. Carrigan Notch Trail, again brook crossing was a little difficult with most rocks having some water going over. The bushwhacking wasn't that difficult. There are a lot of birches and...

We are proud to say we made it to the sumit on the first attempt. We headed down the Carrigan Notch Trail until we came to a big rock. Was this the boulder everyone mentions in there reports? We didn't see any obvious trail but headed in at a spot that looked good. The bushwhacking was...

After bushwacking in the wet woods our backpacks were very dirty. So we googled "How to wash a backpack" and got some very useful information. Since they wouldn't fit in the washing machine, and I have a front loading machine, we had to opt for the bathtub. But if you can fit your pack in the...

Toady we went back for our second attempt. After we failed, we went home and studied the map and made a new plan (we knew where not to go!). Much quieter today as the mountain is shut down until ski season. We found the herd path easily and headed down. We started the bushwack earlier than...

Light snow encountered at 2000 feet and 1-2 inches on the ground after 3.000 feet. No traction needed but the trees on the bushwack were only too happy to dump their snow on us. Very wet wack but beautiful warm, no wind sunny day. Joe, Nancy & Cinder

Well we thought we had done all our homework. We read all the posts and studied the map and were ready to go today. We hiked up the access trail to the Gondola House on the summit of Loon Mountain. Then up the Sunset Trail to North Peak. We found the herd path to Black Mountain very easily...

SOOO, Are they faded pink ones or "rare" white ones?? Anyway, they were pretty cool to see. I have a wildfolwer guide book that puts the lady slippers with the yellow flowers and has a pictur of a yellow lady slipper. Has anyone ever seen a yellow one?

Cinder and I were hiking up the Stairs Col Trail from the Rocky Branch Trail today and noticed a lot of Lady Slippers along the trail. But they were white!! I wondered if they had been pink and just faded but there were also pink ones along the trail. After googling white lady slippers it...

Trail Conditions: Up the Davis Path was bare ground til around 2,00-2500 feet elevation, then there was quite a bit of snow/ice in the middle of the trail. After spending considerable time trying to avoid the snow/ice I decided to put on microspikes and just walk wherever. Once to the rock...

Ticks My dog is also on frontline and occasionally gets ticks too. My vet explained that Frontline is only 100% effective for 28 days. Since we only apply it once a month those last couple of days in the Month its' effectiveness decreases by 50% each day. So if you really want to keep track...

Congrats Rick. I also managed to finish my winter 4k's this past Friday on Isolation. We hope to hike with you again someitme.

First day of school vacation and I was hoping to get this winter 4K in . It would be nice to have a few companions (beside Cinder) along. Starting from Rocky Branch (doing bushwacks) - weather permitting.