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My dad wasn't a hiker. I learned hiking and backpacking with my buddies when we were teens. Dad was born and raised in North Dakota, so perhaps his lack of interest in hiking was cultural and thus understandable. Once when we were visiting Dad's hometown when I was a kid, I found a poster which...

Many thanks for the green spot on the Cabot TR. I appreciate your vote of confidence! Very best, /Steve

Many thanks for the green spot on the Cabot TR. I appreciate your thoughtfulness! Very best, /Steve

Many thanks for the green spot on the Cabot TR. Really enjoyed meeting you at the Common Man, too. Very best, /Steve

Thank you for the green spot, Trish. You are thoughtful and generous. I love your TRs, too. Very best, /Steve

Thanks for the Garfield TR green spot, Earl. My inspiration for detailed Trip Reports is, in fact, you -- your reports always contain terrific, useful information. Thanks! Very best, /Steve

Thank you all for the kind words. It means a lot to me that you give my reports (and Tuckerman's) the gifts of your time and attention. Really. It is. Especially when I need so much work on, as rocket21 described it, my "emotional version of Sting's 'Roxanne'" after the VFTT gathering in...

Posting as a hiker-with-hiking-dog, there's no excuse for the behavior of the owners of the first dog. Bad owners indeed -- it really bothers me that such people tend to give all hikers with dogs a bad name. Very occasionally, Tuckerman and meet people on the trail who feel it necessary to...

Trails: Garfield, Garfield Ridge Conditions: Wet and muddy down low, broken monorail beginning at 4,000 feet, steady monorail at 4,200 feet. Some tricky ice remains on the short, steep section above the trail junction to the summit. Yesterday in the wind, some rime ice grew on the rocks at...

Tuckerman needed to get back on the trail. He didn't come along with me on last week's climb of Mt. Cabot because he'd wrenched one of his back legs in a hole while running across the lawn. We climbed Cannon together a couple weeks ago, but the week before that he got left at home under the...

The article about the rescue in the UL quotes Gerard Perron's grandson: >>> "He said he fell into snow up to his neck and when he got out, he had lost his shoes," Jason Perron said. "He didn't know where he was." <<< I think all of us can relate to that. Even though we may be much more...

Thank you for the very kind words, everyone. I really do appreciate that you take the time to read these reports -- it's truly a privilege to have such an attentive audience. More about the moose carcass... It has occurred to me that perhaps the moose wasn't poached, that it died naturally...

re: the moose carcass NH Fish & Game is closed for the weekend, but I left a message at the Region 1 office in Lancaster about the moose carcass. Many thanks to the thoughtful VFTTers who suggested in email that I follow up with the officials regarding what is likely an illegal hunting...

Trails: Bunnell Notch, Kilkenny Ridge Conditions: Dry, sometimes muddy, down low; muddy and very wet in the mid-elevations; broken monorail from 3,200-3,900 feet; steady narrow and sometimes icy monorail from 3,900 feet to the summit. On the mostly flat stretch from the fire warden's cabin to...

Unexpectedly, this was a Tuckerman-less hike. Tuck, my seven-month-old puppy who has become a wonderful hiking companion, got a little rambunctious in the yard earlier in the week and twisted one of his back ankles in a hole (a hole he had dug himself, the idiot), and even though he's walking...

What an exceptional evening! Among many other things, I learned that some people try to drive across mountains in Wales because their Tom-Tom told them to, that there's a "turnpike" from Canaan to Lyme, that there were not one but two old ski areas up on Whiteface, and that the oldest guidebook...

>>>No problem! I always enjoy reading your reports- and I don't even have a dog!<<< What a nice thing to say. Thank you. And I'm happy to lend you Tuckerman, especially when he's being a nuisance around the house!

Wonderful puppy pictures! What is with that rolling on the ground in the smells thing that dogs do? Tuckerman does the same thing. It's so weird.

A postholing "sufferfest" -- hah! Boy, that's exactly what it can be sometimes. As always, a wonderful report and photos from you both.

Superb photos. I especially like the last one, the illuminated boats at night. Man, that's a great shot.