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You don’t happen to know what the trail/herd path is off of Monte Rosa Trail, do you? I followed it a short distance back in September, but it was getting late so I didn’t go to its end. It must just hit the Old Cart Path or Mossy Brook Trail eventually, but I was curious about it.

Thanks, Kerry. I may have been paying too much attention to the ice and missed the sign. I think I know the area you describe along the Red Spot Trail. I went a short distance but didn’t see any trail continuing beyond thirty feet or so. Well, next month I’ll give it another go. I don’t usually...

A follow-up Monadnock trails question. Where does the Ravine Trail go? It disappears behind the legend on the July 2009 map (upper right, by Gilson Pond). http://www.nhstateparks.org/uploads/pdf/MonadnockHikingTrailsMap_All_2010.pdf And it wasn’t even on my February 1994 map.

I was going to ask if this trail still exists, but I see by some old threads here that it does. So instead I will ask, where the heck is it? I’ve climbed the Red Spot Trail twice recently and haven’t seen any sign of the Old Ski Path. In November, I saw some paint on a rock for the Smith...

I completed one month of the White Mountain grid, climbing my final six peaks for September. Not that I’m actually working on The Grid — I’ve never climbed any 4000-footers between November 12th and June 26th — but it doesn’t hurt to chart my progress (116/576, 20.1%), and I was close enough to...

Actually, I like this one, too, from last January 19. Flagg Hill Pond in Stow, Mass.

In chronological order Sky over Framingham, Mass., September 3. The Horn across Unknown Pond, September 28. Unknown Pond. I have a slide from 1984 that I believe looks almost exactly the same, September 28. Durand Ridge, October 4. Above King Ravine, October 4. Mount Liberty...

You may want to wait a few days. It’s going to be well below zero, wind chill -49° F. http://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Madison/forecasts/1636

It says here that skis and showshoes are both allowed in winter (it’s about halfway down the page). It’s snowmobiles that are verboten. However, I remember reading in ‘‘Forest and Crag’’ that — years ago — a group of AMCers in snowshoes were faster getting up and down Mount Marcy than a group...

Steve Smith’s and Mike Dickerman’s 4000-Footers book has information on climbing each peak in winter. I was wondering about climbing the Wildcats from the south. Is Carter Notch Road not cleared high enough to make this practical? I figured with the cross country ski area up there, that it must...

You won’t read a better book than ‘‘Following Atticus’’ by Tom Ryan, unless it’s ‘‘Strength in What Remains’’ by Tracy Kidder. The latter isn’t a hiking book, but there is a lot of walking in it. This subject of this thread comes up every year or three. ‘‘Alone’’ by Admiral Richard E. Byrd may...

When I climbed North Twin back in September, I saw an obvious trail that curled away from the herd path between the first two crossings. It hooked to the left, back toward Haystack Road, then — I thought — switched directions again. To head in the direction of Hale, I assumed. I figured that...

Thanks, Suebiscuit. Do you happen to know if the closed section went straight where the trail turns left to go to Blood Rock? That seemed like the one place where the trail might have been. Right around Blood Rock itself any continuation would have gone steeply downhill. When I was there, I...

From the parking lot, you have to walk back down the road to the bridge. That’s where the trail begins. It was kind of mushy down low, then climbed steadily. I had remembered walking through the gate (in 1984) and continuing along the road, so in 2013 I went through the parking lot, across an...

I couldn’t see any sign of it continuing, but my book, copyright 2006, said it did. ‘‘Swings west,’’ supposedly, and rejoins the Windsor Trail. I was just wondering why it was discontinued and curious about how it seemed to vanish so completely. If it weren’t so far out of the way for me, I’d...

Gee, nothing? Here’s a picture I took. I assume the covered part of the sign said something about the distance to the summit. No one here knows anything about the trail being truncated? I’m disappointed.

It was fine at the end of September, anyway. Replaced my Corolla with a Prius, which has less clearance, I’m sure. This says the road is open. I didn’t even notice a gate. And the road had been extended since the one previous time I had been there, in 1984, when the end of the road was gated.

There are herd paths, which I’ve used. A few years ago, someone fell and hit his head and had to be arlifted out, I think, so that was on my mind. Especially as I seemed to be the only person on the mountain that day*; I may have lain there a long time if I’d been injured. * Two people crossing...

I remember Mount Hight. I have some slides from there, somewhere in my bedroom closet. Mount Crawford is another nice one. I forgot to ask: Which Bear Mountain? Surely not the one along Bear Notch Road.

Backpacker magazine selected the view from Zeacliff as being the best in New Hampshire, and I think that the climb up Hamlin Peak is way more scenic than the hike to Arethusa Falls. There’s no comparison. And Maine’s Angel Falls is probably more attractive than Arethusa Falls, too. I haven’t...