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Believe me, it can really rage during runoff periods. But it makes sense to relocate the crossing so no bridge is involved. It is a pack route to the hut.

I need to educate myself about windfarms since proposals may start popping up in my area soon. I've read an earlier thread in which proponents praise them as a "green" initiative, however flawed, and opponents argue that they'll be white elephants soon enough, aren't worth the high elevation...

The best portable shelter in windy conditions should be a bag you climb into and only have to zip closed. Even that can be difficult in high wind. I would think that a tent fly would be flapping all over the place, and the best you might accomplish would be to wrap yourself up in it like a...

First, did you buy title insurance? (Yes, I'm sure you did.) Second, did you not see these faint blazes runing across one lot when you bought it? I'm not following your account completely. Third, I own land that borders the NF, and they really paint up those property boundaries, with rock...

Right, Dr. D. I'm not so sure that the USFS is replacing those bridges. The backhoe may be working on constructing a private road that the FS proposed in 2/2009 to allow a "private in-holder" (Seely) to access its property within that part of the WMNF. See the map on page 10...

That's good to hear, Jason.

I read Kilham's book and heard him speak several years ago at the White Mountain School. He was excellent; his talk added new info (and pictures) to the book material. Although Kilham doesn't seek out the bears--they're brought to him, often orphaned cubs--I worried at first that his hands-on...

My all-time favorite (so far) is Arlene Blum, Annapurna: A Woman's Place. Two others come quickly to mind, the first a classic, the second fairly recent (and by a local author): Miriam Underhill, Give Me the Hills, and Rebecca A. Brown, Women on High: Pioneers of Mountaineering.

Maine Gov. Baldacci opposes proposed low altitude Guard training flights over the hills and mountains of western Maine and a "sliver" of northern NH: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NNE_LOW_LEVEL_FLIGHTS_NHOL-?SITE=NHMAL&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Thanks for the memory trip, Darren. I still have some Wordstar floppies and tractor feed dot matrix printouts. I signed up so early for email at my large place of employment that my username there is just my first name and first initial of last name. No johndoe87659392.......

You haven't lived until you buy an awl and some heavy-duty pack thread and sew it back together yourself. I had to come off the NLP Trail and go to the outdoor store in Keene Valley (?) to get an awl to sew a strap back on to my backpack. Really hard to balance the big load with just one strap...

Yup. All those downstate lawyers who now advertise on the backs of phone books up here are grinning and sharpening their claws over this idea! Doesn't mean they'd win but that's not how the money gets made.

I wasn't suggesting that the mystery part is from THE C.W. Saunders but possibly from a similar engine. In any event, the best way I know to identify it, 1HH, is to take a picture of it over to Clark's in Lincoln. Ed is no longer there, of course, but his brother Murray and younger members of...

I was in VT at Journeys End near the Canadian border in late August and made several cell phone calls. When I got my cell phone bill two months later, I noticed some extra roaming charges and looked through it all until I found calls I had supposedly made in late August from Montreal, Que...

Part of a logging railroad steam engine smokestack? Here's a picture of one (C. W. Saunders) crossing the Sawyer River: http://photos.whitemountainhistory.org/FullScreenPhoto.aspx?gallery=219958&photo=7349363 It's part of a series of Livermore photos.

You always have to be cautious about moose crossing the roadways here; lowering your speed and "scanning" both sides of the road is essential. But be especially careful between Exits 34 and 38 on I-93, from the Notch up to Franconia. This is known locally as "Moose Alley." Due to some clearcuts...

"Eye on the Sky," broadcast on VPR, has a mountain recreational forecast usually good for the Western Whites. Scroll down: http://eotsweb.org/forecasts.php

N/NW is my recollection.

Post title should be 10/25/09 but no way to edit.... The heavy rain of yesterday appears to be over but south of here the Pemi is still working to disgorge it all. The "Wilderness's" Pemi will still be high if not in flood stage. NWS Alert: Issued by The National Weather Service Portland, ME...

Stan, yes, I agree. Try to out-hike a member of the NH Fish and Game search-and-rescue team sometime. The entry level qualifications for CO's fitness are steep.