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Thanks for the info.

What about Castle Ravine? Some of those crossings are supposed to be pretty difficult anyway. Is hiking there out of the question until the next drought?

Hey, Papa Bear! I met your friend Melissa (and Kent) a couple of months ago while hiking to Mount Isolation. She twice mentioned a friend of hers who seeks survey benchmarks, so the second time she brought him up I asked if her friend’s name was Richard. She stared at me for a moment, then said...

I don’t think that it is on any peakbagging list. But does it have a canister or peanut butter jar or sign or anything else denoting its summit? I was up there yesterday, and, though my GPS indicated that I passed over the summit (as marked on the map), I didn’t see any of the above or even any...

I also noticed that path just behind Tecumseh’s summit, but I didn’t investigate it far enough to discover that it led to a view. Next time. There is also a well-beaten or possibly cleared path way out on the western end of Mt. Tecumseh Trail, beyond West Tecumseh, on another minor summit...

Here you can see the view of the talus fields from Bondcliff.

Green square. Thanks for finding and posting that.

My ladyfriend, Susan, and I saw ‘‘A Walk in the Woods’’ last night and enjoyed it. We both had some thoughts on things we would like to have seen included, but agreed that some parts were right on the money, like the sequence of Bryson trying to get to Kmart while Katz was at the laundromat. But...

I have recently climbed each of those mountains for the third time. For Owl’s Head, in July, I used the Franconia Falls bushwhack heading out (for the second time) and the Black Pond bushwhack heading back (for the first time in either direction). It took me about 8¾ hours all together. For...

David Roberts addressed the knack of writing adventure books long ago, and I bet he would not disapprove of ‘‘A Walk in the Woods’’ (the book). I remember he quoted a passage from a book in which the author claimed to be on a rope on a cliff, and a rock fell from above and knocked the cigarette...

I would like to see it, but I’m skeptical because I never heard of any filming actually taking place around here. Supposedly it was shot in Georgia, but surely they hike further than that. Right??? I also doubt that the movie will have anything about the once sprawling chestnut forests, the...

I had a Canon G12, but it suffered a lens error on the top of Mount Moosilauke (wouldn’t focus, then wouldn’t close up when I tried to turn it off), and it doesn’t work anymore. I replaced it with a Sony. My last three Canons all crapped out, two from lens errors and the other drains the...

I wasn’t speaking with any kind of authority, just sorting through my own feelings about it. There’s a fine line, I know, between counting or not counting an ascent. Missing the summit but counting it anyway, or intentionally missing it by a little bit for the sake of not counting it now, but...

I figured, if it’s been climbed, it’s been climbed, and can’t be unclimbed. So it seems like a sneaky way just to get a unique finishing peak, but I guess it doesn’t do any harm, unless the AMC is (secretly) compiling statistics about such things. (‘‘Secretly’’ because I haven’t seen any...

Tim, on the Google Earth image, it looks like you went over North Brother to Fort Mountain, but your photos show you visiting Fort before North Brother. Did you just avoid the tippy-top rocks on North Brother so it would be Number 100? Still looks like you climbed it first (well, 99th).

We went up Coe slide and back down again with my then-5-year-old son in October 1996. We didn’t cross it at the very top, because of ice, but the slide itself didn’t seem all that bad to me. The non-ledge terrain was kind of spongy, is my memory. I would step on a rock and it would sink into the...

When all else fails, ask DougPaul. I just bought a Sony camera from an online seller, and it looks like it was designated for Europe, not the United States. The plug for recharging the battery has a 3A on it, which is supposedly used for 250 volts. The 125-volt designation should be 6A or 8A...

The washout has long-since been fixed, and the road continues beyond the Signal Ridge Trail parking lot probably as far as it ever did, but I don’t know the distance. Signal Ridge Trail itself has been re-routed a couple of places. It now starts on the uphill (left) side of the bridge, which...

I will give that a shot. Thank you.