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Congratulations Tim, great job and a pleasure joining you on some of them. Next year you'll have to try to do it as a full time worker! :) Ken and Karen

At this point in the season they are useful if you like televators on steep sections, but aside from that probably just "eye candy" to "look cool" or something you carry to build up your strength (extra 4 lbs). Crampons and your microspikes/HIllsounds will get you much farther faster. See my...

Parked at Cog Lot. Lots of parking but was fairly full. Up Ammo which was packed powder. We all used microspikes up (No Snowshoes today) and they were fine. Snowshoes would help if we get any snow or you like the televators on the steeps which is most of the trail. At LoC Hut two put on...

The trail is very well packed with just a coating of new snow from last night. We used MSR's mostly for the televators and they, as always were great. Most on the trail today (and there were many) were in microspikes or Hillsounds. We came down in spikes. The trail up to the summit had a...

There was fresh snow from the plowed Glencliff lot. Started at about 3-4 inches and got up to about 8 near Carriage Rd junction. One in front of us broke out the Glencliff Trail and we widend and packed it up to the Carriage Rd. The Carriage Rd was very drifted in with very cool, wind carved...

Gordon DuBois will present a workshop at the Laconia (NH) library on long distance hiking. Gordon is an experienced long and short distance hiker that recently (October) finished the AT. The attached file explains more about Gordon and his presentation. If you are thinking about long distance...

Glencliff parking lot was plowed. 1-2" of fresh powder on a hard packed trail made for an easy ascent and fast descent. No trail issues. A bit of ice in a few spots hidden by the snow. We all snowshoed up though you could have bare booted or used microspikes. Once we broke out of the trees...

Just watched the news report and interview of the hikers, and the grandfather they originally called for help. Clearly unprepared! If going up a mountain or being on a trail makes you a "hiker" than I guess they were hikers, but that would be in name only.

We parked at the Basin and hiked (walked) the bike/snowmobile trail down the the "bushwhack" (Trip report Ed copied for you). It is very obvious where the bw begins and has a log across the stream. We discussed a better bw might be from the Basin with more of a traverse with an uphill and...

Trails are all nicely packed and fast. You could bare boot, microspike or snowshoe (televators for the steeps)(we left the snowshoes behind and glad we did). There were two, that came up the slide in bareboots (used the side of the slide and said they had no problems) and some that had camped...

Stony Brook is a packed powder highway. There was some drifting on the C-M trail but not enough to slow you down. A couple of icy rocks/step ups including one going up to the summit (there is a bypass around it). Microspikes were the choice today. Snowshoes got another free ride. If we don't...

Or a PBR! Congratulations Ed.

Kevin, great report. Karen and I had many of the same emotions as you about this hike. Looking back, in hindsight I'm very glad our first winter Zealand/Bonds traverse was with such a great group. Our anxiety was lessened by knowing we had all this experience with us. This allowed us to...

Karen and I want to thank all of you for what was a trip we needed, but one that caused us to wonder if we were nuts (still open for debate:D ) for doing it. It was great to meet so many illustrious VFTT ers. Your knowledge and support on a trip like this as well as the stories and chance to...

Just read Jason B's thread from yesterday so not sure if the trail is the actual bushwhack or the one they started. RBT to height of land was consolidated and we used microspikes. Put on snowshoes at the start of bushwhack and stayed in them the rest of the day. We followed what appeared to...

The mirror is puzzling. Is it tied at the top or just looped (like the mirror was a weight they threw and it looped around? Though even that wouldn't give me a clue. Take the advice posted by Tim Seaver and visit John's Blog. Those photos are worth the trip! When I try to explain why I hike...

1/14/12 Trails- Mt. Cabot Trail, Kilkenny Ridge Trail Conditions- Parking along side of road. About 4" of snow to start. Logging roads wide open. Snow depth increased with elevation. Streams/wet areas were mostly frozen/bridged but we did break through in a couple. Cold weather should...

My wife, for many years had an EMS 60/40 and I still have a Frostline "Kit" pullover. The pullover was actually not a kit but was all assembled when purchased. My brother made the down booties in "Home Ec" class. I agree that the length of todays coats should be a bit longer. What can we...

Just called DOT (3:45 Friday 1/6) and they do not have a record of it being closed...at least officially. Conditions might make it closed to my car but we may have to see for ourselves. Thanks for the advice SherpaTom. Hope this works out for you Freighttrain48.

Great report Jacob. Glad you could join us. Hope we can all do some more hiking together soon! K&K