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Chip's backyard coyote picture (post #2) shows the tell-tale (ahem) distinction between coyote and domestic canine: coyotes run with their tails pointing straight down, your fido house pet runs with a tail straight up, straight out, windmilling, corkscrewing, wagging laterally, circle 8's, etc....

They've been all over the place here (Franconia) all summer.

Lots. With a number of different dogs. It's a good route. The first 2+ miles (to the Bald Knob turnoff) is wide, easy footing, with three stream crossings for water holes; after that you start working your way up to the ridge, again with no dog-stumpers. It really doesn't add that much time to...

I'm done with this one, it's a dead horse, but what I take away from it is to remember for future DM occasions like this that the "extended comment" period substitutes, in fact, for the appeal. It's all legal, no sense beating one's head against the wall (other than to change the law). The...

With all due respect, I was not part of the "we" and would have preferred the Kilkenny. The Pemi is literally littered with artifacts from the logging and later eras. Anybody who has gotten deep into it knows you'll come across old camp sites, pans, buckets, woodstove parts, and other relics...

Since there is no actual appeal available by law, it's probably a moot point now. The so-called appeal period was included before the final DM, that is, the comment period was extended in order to acknowledge the controversial nature of the proposed action. But then the same person (or people)...

Dusting off the snowshoes, revving up the snow thrower...

The 9/21 start date for the bridge removal is being announced in NH newspapers: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NH_WILDERNESS_BRIDGE_NHOL-?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I am not a "detractor" but a dissenter, and, no, I would certainly not prefer no public input. But I would appreciate, indeed expect, an appeals procedure, and there is none here. Once again, I think this points to the flawed "closed loop" nature of decision making in the process of the Decision...

I was most struck in the decision by the subjectivity of what constitutes wilderness. There is no clear standard. Ranger Fuller acknowledges this toward the end of the document when she notes that there is no "black and white" criterion for wilderness. In the earlier sections of the decision, at...

I'd check this out with an Ortho MD or PT first. Rowing requires hip flexion, which may or may not be good for a labral tear.

I understood your point; it was perfectly clear. It's useful to contextualize giardia in the contaminated world we live in, whether it's salmonella in the veggies, MRSA in the beach sand, or whatever floats around in our drinking water (public or private source). I'm not wringing my hands that...

Grammar and logic go hand in hand, but I'm more concerned about the latter in statements like this one: "it would be speculative, at this point, to conclude that removing the bridge would cause more search and rescues." Would it not also be speculative, at this point, to conclude that removing...

I think we just threw out the baby and saved the bath water. As if this will make the Pemi "wilderness" again. Sigh.

Hard to tell, but it looks like a litter (basket-shaped metal stetcher) on the bottom and a toboggan on the top, order of which would be reversed in actual use. Dig it out?

Well, this may or may not be to the point, I'll let others decide, but Chocorua Forestlands is not necessarily the total villain it is usually characterized as in this thread. Sure, it's a business corporation, that's America for ya, but it also happens to own (or did own) one of the most highly...

Vituperative, as in "harshly abusive"? I don't think so. Actually, the comments and questioning have been rather restrained, with a few prods from moderators. Everybody seems agreed that this situation could and should have been headed off much earlier and it's a shame that it has gotten to the...

As you say, only Jazzbo can answer what "artist himself" and "thanks for sharing" mean in the context of his statement about so many painted blazes. So we'll either hear what he meant or not. Way too much "probably" speculation in these threads, especially when actual authors are available to...

In post #13, dated 11-17-08, of this link noted above by bandana4me, http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26297, Jazzbo shows two inline pictures of blazes painted on trees and rocks, one underwater, comments on their number ("what the blazes"), and in the next inline picture, of Mr...

I was out there last weekend and wondered if Journey's End was a frequently-used entry point and what kind of surveillance there was. Now I know.