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Nobody else on Boy Mountain yesterday, but I think that's generally the case. The Bald Mtn./Artists Bluff loop near Echo Lake and Cannon, on the other hand, was hopping, with lots of families. It is a tourist attraction of long standing and will always be busy on a sunny summer weekend...

I'm not exactly a regular poster these days and have in fact made a modest contribution of one post to this thread already. There are, however, plenty of perfectly honorable reasons for even the most frequent posters to sit this thread out. They could have no interest in any version of these...

So true, and hot pizza beats gorp by a mile.

See Post #61 in that "Mob Scenes..." thread under General Backcountry. Bowling would resolve this dilemma also.

I have pondered this problem deeply and found the solution – bowling. Consider for a moment the advantages of that gregarious pastime over hiking: - You’ll save time. Your nearest bowling alley is bound to be way closer than that distant trailhead you’d otherwise be clogging up. - You’ll save...

Different people have different interests and boredom thresholds. I've hiked a substantial majority of the Trails in the AMC White Mountain Guide and more than I'd care to admit from other Guides or no guides at all, and while there are many of them that I have no desire to repeat, there are...

Stinkyfeet said: Amen to that. I've hiked every weekend this summer, usually both days, and on a majority of those hikes I've encountered no other hikers. These Trails are all in the AMC Guide too, and they're fine, with view ledges, waterfalls and many other points of interest. All they lack...

Brava! A worthy obsession, and a great way to experience the best of NH en masse.

Middle Mountain, No. Conway, where there were a bunch: Turtleback Mtn. (Ossipees - LRCT Res.): I've also seen them on Foss Mtn. in Eaton.

When I hiked the Paugus side of the Beeline Trail in November 2012, the sign for it at its western terminus at the Old Paugus Trail was conspicuous by its absence. The bolt-holes where it had been fastened beneath the Old Paugus Trail sign were quite distinct. From that and the very poor...

Garmin Topo USA is not as good as Nat Geo, but assuming it is still available, it may be your best option. As I recall (can't check right now), it offers about the same functions as NG, but the maps are less accurate and less attractive.

The bikers get a year older every year (like me), and it seems that youth aren't embracing two-wheelers in proportionate numbers. I see more tricycles and heavily-padded Harleys with grey-headed riders every year. Extra traffic has never seemed that big a deal, but I don't go through downtown...

This is belated, but get the WVAIA's excellent trail map for all the Waterville Valley hiking and XC trails - much more detailed than the the AMC map. You can get it at that real estate office on the north side of the road just as you enter Waterville Valley Village and resort. They also carry...

A bit hokey, but the Blue Lagoon, not far from the Rejkjavik airport, comprises sprawling, shallow pools of mineral water, which is the color of a Blue Margarita, produced and heated by geothermal springs that power an adjacent power-plant. You can smear your skin with a fine silica mud said to...

I don't know exactly where miles 70.4 and 72 are, but from about the middle of that stretch I think So. Kinsman or Cannon would be more likely than Moosilauke to give you a dramatic glimpse, slightly to the left.

I made my own Kanc XC debut on Sat. (Feb. 22), on the pair of linked XC loops, the east end of which starts at the Oliverian Brook parking lot. I should have realized that the rain late last week would have produced poor conditions. Snowshoers had used the trails far more than XC'rs (or...

"Black Mountain" is really a range. The cabin is towards the south end, while the official summit, x3,304, is at the north end, about 2 miles from the cabin in a straight line. If you wanted to visit the summit (which is on the NE3K list), you could get a lot closer to it by the East Branch or...

I don't think I'd call the Thunderbolt Trail, straight to the Greylock summit from the east, a scramble, but it is steep - built by the CCC in the 1930s for ski-racing. Climbing it without a break will burn off a lot of eggnog. Plenty of nice trails in Blue Hills and the Fells but no scrambles.

A fun list for reminiscing as the snowflakes fall. It surprised me to see Beehive and, even more, Precipice Trail in Acadia NP rated II+. They aren't long and have those metal rungs, but I think they challenge far more than many of those IIIs.

I can't answer your question because all my Midstate Trail hikes were in 2010 and 2011 - 9 day-hikes that covered the complete Trail. I can tell you that I was pleasantly surprised how little road-walking was required - far less than for the North-South Trail in RI, which the Midstate meets at...