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Two people together the whole time count but one person with occasional company doesn't? Stashing a few batteries (AA I assume, weighing an ounce or so) DQs you? To paraphrase Charles Dickens: If those are the rules, the rules are a ass, a idiot. Hats off to Andrew for a remarkable feat.

The way to avoid that, at least on iPhones, is to go into Settings and switch into Airplane mode at the start of your hike, when signal is likely to be weak or none, then revert to normal when you get to some high part where you want to check and send messages. I usually Message a photo too...

They were also conspicuous by their absence on a hike yesterday to Speckled and Durgin Mtns. from the south, Stoneham, Maine. It seemed that their season had ended early, as it was warm and intermittently sunny - their kind of weather.

Scudder's White Mountain Viewing Guide (2d Ed.) includes his peerless summit diagrams and descriptions for 54 peaks and is a bargain at $18.50. You can get it at Mountain Wanderer or directly from Brent Scudder's High Top Press. http://www.hightoppress.com/mtnviewingguide.html

Does anyone know if Nash Stream Road in Stark, NH, where the trailheads for both Percys and Sugarloaf (the one in Nash Stream Valley) are located, is open? The AMC Guide 28th Ed., which I have handy, claims that it is almost always closed until Memorial Day. I don't have the latest (29th Ed.)...

If you're in the WV vicinity, you can look at and buy the hard copy of the WVAIA trail map at the real estate agency on the north side of the highway near the big sign welcoming you to WV. They also carry it at the bookstore in the Village but charge a buck or two more, at least as of two years...

On a 22-mile north-south Wapack traverse with Big Earl and Trail Trotter in September 2007, I caught a fleeting morning sunlight effect on Pack Monadnock. TPBM includes Big Earl or Trail Trotter.

The answer to "why now" is the first sentence of the second paragraph of the article: We have these new facts because the newspaper, recognizing a good story, exercised its legal right to dig them out. Her tent and sleeping bag foiled the dogs, which is poignant.

I'm not sure about an AG opinion, but in 2007, the Mass. Legislature passed a law extending to private volunteers doing maintenance on trails on State land the same limited protection from liability that State employees already possessed. That protection precludes liability for negligence, but...

The Ellis River Trail was open yesterday at Jackson XC and in decent shape. This morning, better yet, because free and solitary, were miles of trails through the Freedom Town Forest, Burke Town Forest in Madison and Ossipee Pine Barrens, which are contiguous. The few XC'ers who had preceded me...

To mix threads a bit: So it seems that Henry D. did not take as narrow a view of what is "utilitarian" as some. He considered vast horizons to be not only useful but essential to happiness.

Walking with Thoreau, by William Howarth, (2001, and in print as a paperback), does a good job retracing all of Thoreau's known New England hikes, based on the author's assiduous trolling through T's voluminous journals. I found it essential in attempting to follow in T's footsteps. I see...

No foliage color to speak of in Mt. Washington Valley this weekend as far east and north as Eastman Mountain (SW part of Evans Notch). With the protracted dry conditions, it seems like the trees are going from green to brown, skipping the colors.

Slippery Brook Road/FR 17 is finally open again, four years after Irene. Of the four miles of the Slippery Brook Trail south of its junction with the Eastman Mtn. and Baldface Knob Trails, the first 2.2 are woods roads used by snowmobiles and can be quickly traversed. The 1.8 mile "trail"...

Mike was one of the best. I remember how welcoming he and Ginnie were when I first started hiking with some VFTT'ers a decade or so ago. A tragic loss, and my condolences to Ginnie and the rest of his family.

The Senator's letter to D. Crandall of the Dept. of Agriculture is great, but it's long and I'm having trouble pasting it. She points out the dangers to hikers who will rely for years on older guidebooks and maps, the fact that repair would cost hardly more, if anything, than removal, and draws...

Excellent description of a fun scramble, but let me put in a word for the AMC Guide-recommended upward, not downward, direction. The Gulch is like Mahoosuc Notch in miniature, with smaller boulders, but the same slippery scrambles. I would always rather go up than down a steep slippery patch...

So I did. I hesitated whether this was "Environmental" or "Fish/Wldlife," but went with the former. I hiked your Trail last summer finally and loved it - excellently restored after what I could see were extreme Irene rigors. It was a sunny Saturday but i met only one other hiker - backpacking...

It's the rebuilt Pine River Trail, heavily damaged by Irene and closed thereafter until last year, when it reopened with much relocation. It is a more scenic .9-mile alternative to a rather featureless .8 mile stretch of the Eastside Trail, not too far from Lincoln Woods, which did indeed have...

When car radios were introduced in the '20s, they provoked widespread protests as distracting and therefore dangerous, and perhaps with some justice. In 1930, Massachusetts considered a bill to ban them but it didn't pass. A few small municipalities did adopt such ordinances but that was it...