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No snow on Mauna Kea I looked at webcams for both Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea and don't see snow. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/livecam/livecam.html

Made a difference Served his country in two wars, cleaned up New Hampshire's rivers, created miles of trails, preserved important parcels of land, led AMC hiking trips, among the first to peakbag the 4000-footers, and a 63-year love affair. A life well lived. Thanks for posting this.

Memorabilia better than equities In a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the auction of Curt Flood's memorabilia in Louisville tomorrow, the auctioneer said "a company could fail but Babe Ruth's bat, while its value may fluctuate, will still be Babe Ruth's bat in the morning." I think the...

Alice Combs is an AMC member and a member of the Northwest Camp Committee, according to this website: http://www.outdoors.org/pdf/upload/08_Annual_Report_final-2.pdf You might be able to contact her through Sue Ives, 203-266-6374, who is in charge of booking the Northwest Camp. According to...

Reel Brook Trail swimming hole About 2/3 of the way up the trail is a small pool at the bottom of a small waterfall. There's a rock you can sit on and let the water rush by you. I climbed on a very hot day in August but it was much cooler in the woods along the trail. Nevertheless, after four...

Much cleaner air When I worked at Aqueduct racetrack in 1974, the air over Manhattan was yellow-brown, now it's blue and has been for some time.

Before they wrecked it, the best place to sleep in the White Mountains was the cabin of the Mt. Carrigain fire tower. Awesome views and a nice reward for a hard walk.

Nice, Dad There's an adventure she'll never forget with her dad, a hike, a sleepout deep in the woods, favorite book, daring challenge, IDing flowers. wow.

Accessible to taxpayers Popular areas like the Pemi and Wild River should have cleared paths deep into the woods with amenities like bridges and shelters so that the vast majority of taxpayers have access. A small group of local ideologues should not be able to con or conspire with government...

We lost The radicals won and the rest of us can lump it. Generations of good stewardship wiped out by the current activists, some of whom saw their abutting property values enhanced. Wild River Wilderness is next to the lightly used Caribou-Speckled Mtn. wilderness so there was no need to...

Fine powder You had white-nose syndrome before you went in the cave, Cokie.

http://www.startribune.com/local/15895882.html They're not sure of the cause yet. But they're dying at an alarming rate.

Fair and square No controversy, no nothing. Giants were better on offense and defense and special teams. In retrospect, the Pats should have tried the field goal instead of 4th and 13.

I meant to post this earlier but Wednesday's New York Times had a special section, Circuits, in which the first 10 pages were devoted to GPS issues, brands, features, how they work. Haven't had a chance to read it through but it looked like it might be pretty useful, and written in layman's terms.

Boo Wu Citing track and swimming records is probably the worst example you could use since both those sports have been rendered irrelevant and unwatchable due to widespread drug cheating. Hopped-up anorexics and buzzed-out aquatic bints. Current state of track and field: The joy of victory, the...

Sherman Adams I'm having trouble finding old material on Google that I previously read, but IIRC Adams was head of the Dartmouth Outing Club, sold plenty of Parker-Young land later to the DOC for trails and cabins on or near Moosilauke, was a proponent of the Weeks Act and sold most of the...

Variable stars Variable stars emit inconsistent light for various reasons. Some stars are briefly eclipsed by other stars that, from Earth, appear to be near them. GOOGLE variable stars and optical binary stars and follow the path where it leads you. The second star from the end of the handle...

Dr. Wu Dr. Wu went up in a thunderstorm to calculate the coefficient of friction of worn Limmers on wetted lichen-encrusted felsenmeer. But he slipped. BTW, when are you hosting a beer night at the WWII club in Northampton? Or the Beer Museum?

Thanks, Tom So, there's a 23-minute loss of daylight caused by the high mountain. You're right about the sun setting north of West on that date. Paradox -- I learned the answer from Tom and I learned about programs that will give me such an answer in the future. The original intent was to get...

Megan's List Laws are in place that allow police to hit these lewd people with charges that will put them on Megan's List for life. Do that, publicize it and see this offensive conduct stop. The sooner the better. We've had this discussion here before.