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From the Ellis River XC Trail, several hours ago: The Nordic skiing in Jackson was very sweet today.

Taken from the Sunset Beach Trail, part of the King Pine XC network, a few hours ago: That's looking across Purity Lake to the Pitch Pine and Pine Brule downhill trails - both Double Diamonds and short steep fun. XC conditions were excellent - cold temps and light snow but not much wind.

As for the Mt. Washington Hotel, we stayed there once, and not by choice, about a dozen years ago. Our daughter was in a ski race at BW that went on despite a snowstorm and we ended up marooned there. The place is ancient and our room looked it, but was adequate. The huge dining room is...

Not quite on topic but close - for Christmas, I got a MacBook Air, as a serious upgrade over a big Windows 7 laptop I bought several years ago. I was worried about transferring Topo since the MacBook doesn't even have a connection for CD-ROMs, but my tech-savvy daughter was able to do that. She...

Humor (such as it was) intentional, since I posted shortly after reading about Deflate-gate. All kidding aside, I hope they didn't, as anything in that vein will be blown way out of proportion if it involves Belichick.

The Giants' record the last two seasons: 13-19. They haven't even sniffed the playoffs lately. They were good in the past.

AFC champs! Last night, we were Singing in the Rain. Next step - deflate the Seahawks!

Belichick is a genius, to state the obvious. This game may have been the most exciting I've attended, and I've been attending Pats games since way before the AFL/NFL merger - from the early days when they played in places like Fenway and Foxborough was just an obscure suburb on the South Shore...

That sign is new since my last hike on the Libby Trail, six years ago. It has been called that since before 1989, and definitely not named after Harry then. He was the one who told me about his Libby forebears and their farmstead at the foot of that Trail, and I believe he lived on that...

Congratulations. I've enjoyed your take on some of the obscure trails I've been hiking. A fresh perspective is welcome. Redlining is, above all, great fun, for some of us anyway.

Roland "Harry" Libby was a prince among Firewardens - unfailingly welcoming and gracious, but never neglecting his duties when a message came over the intercom as he entertained you in his cab. I got to know him pretty well over the course of several dozen visits between 1989 and 2006, his...

6 to 8 inches of fluffy powder on the AT between Hanover and Three Mile Road, Etna (start of Moose Mtn. Trail).

We were there yesterday and saw for ourselves that M.E. Latulippe Construction of Ashland have been very busy lately. What amounts to a new road, just west of the damaged section, is practically done. If the gate hadn't been locked, we could have driven the 2.3 miles to the north Trailhead of...

The Trailhead has been moved and is now closer to the end of Promenade Street and the cemetery, where there is a Trail sign. It has parking too for a few cars, eliminating a roadwalk of about .1 mile from the end of Promenade Street.

During an August 2012 stay at the Foster Field group site, I hiked with others the O-J-I south slide and Abol slide trails, both now gone. I can understand why, but both were interestingly different and challenging hikes that I'm happy not to have missed.

In addition to the Trails you listed in Acadia NP, the Jordan Cliffs Trail, on the east side of Penobscot Mtn. above Jordan Pond, also has a steep section with quite a few rungs:

Midday yesterday,from Eastman Ledge on the AT to Smarts, Smith and Mousely Mtns. Slightly altered, but foliage really was at its peak there.

An article in today's Boston Globe reports that the the sons, after waiting several hours for their father, went back to look for him, which seems inconsistent with other accounts.

Roland "Harry" Libby was the Green Mtn. Fire Tower Warden for decades. He had been on duty for years when I first climbed Green Mtn., in 1989, and held that post until he retired after the 2006 season. He was replaced for one year by Ranger Heidi, an amiable young woman who often brought her...

I met what must have been the same Tufts group as they were leaving the Ethan Pond campsite Saturday morning, heading west on the Ethan Pond Trail. The Ethan Pond caretaker told me that similar groups from Harvard, Yale and a couple of other New England colleges had been through in the past week.