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Tha AMC 8th says the North Peaks Trail is 6.9 miles long (Hamlin Peak to Russell Pond), with one significant stream crossing. From Russell Pond to Roaring Brook would be another 7 miles, with a bigger crossing. Add to that the rest of your route, and you have quite a formidable day-hike. If...

The North Peaks Trail will take you to Russell Pond. Would you be backpacking and spend a night there? The whole North Peaks Trail appears on the map with, and is described in detail by, the AMC Maine Mountain Guide, 8th Ed. (1999), and I assume it also appears in earlier editions.

Steve Smith is usually there on Saturdays, when I stopped by, but he was on a search mission for a guy who later turned up intact in No. Car. I didn't ask his assistant what Katahdin maps they had, but specifically for the new AMC 10th Tyvek, which I'd already read about. I like it, but if you...

Kineo especially shows off Fall foliage, I think, at least that was my impression when I hiked up there a few Octobers ago. Thoreau hiked to its top, incidentally - one of his couple of dozen of legit. NE summits.

A couple of segments of the Bay Circuit Trail in eastern Mass. might suit you. It goes along the banks of Thoreau's Merrimack River from No. Tewksbury to downtown Lowell, which it enters at the confluence of the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. It then takes you through Kerouac Park and the Lowell...

The new AMC map with the 10 Ed. of the AMC Maine Mountain Guide also comes in a separate Tyvek version, as the AMC has been doing with the White Mtn. Guide for the last 2 Eds. I bought mine at Mountain Wanderer in Lincoln a couple of weeks ago for $10, and a it was all I needed during four days...

Fun to relive an enjoyable hike through your photos. Our meeting you on the OJI summit was one of those happy accidents, as the company and conversation enlivened our walk out from the summit, which was longer than the hike up to it. I took a smaller number of photos of our hike.

We hiked up the Abol Trail to Baxter the next day (last Tuesday) and it was still hot and muggy. We descended by the Hunt Trail, however, which was also new to us. To me, picking my way down the seemingly endless Hunt Trail boulders was more taxing than climbing the Abol Slide, but by then I...

It certainly was a warm one. Princess Tyvek, Whichway and I hadn't hiked either of the west-side Trails to Baxter Peak, so our Abol/Hunt combination was a natural. I thought descending the Hunt Trail boulders, which your photos capture well, was tougher than climbing the Abol Slide, but I was...

I did a very similar solo in October '06, except that No. Brother/Fort were my intended destinations from the begining, since I'd hiked the Coe/So. and No. Brothers loop a few months earlier (with a companion who hated bushwhacking, ruling out Fort, although I persuaded him to give it a try...

That Black Cap kiosk map is old. The current TNC Green Hills Preserve Map, however, appears to show much of that "Shingle Pond Trail" as an unlabeled "foot and bike" trail from Hurricane Mtn. Road, connecting on the south side of the HM Road with the Red Tail Trail, a bike trail that heads...

If your goal is to tag Hamlin and Baxter for List purposes in that order, I wouldn't bother with Chimney Pond, but would take (as I did in the other direction) Chimney Pond Tr./No. Basin Cutoff/No. Basin Tr./Hamlin Ridge Tr., then south along the plateau to Baxter, Knife Edge and Helon Taylor...

An apt description of the Fort herdpath. You have to look down every other step just to follow the damn thing and you still get stabbed repeatedly by stickers you can't see from all the needles, which may be carwashing you, depending on the conditions. I've hiked it twice, which is once more...

Up Cathedral and down Knife Edge/Helon Taylor is not too tough a loop. I did that on a sunny day in early October and the cool air and good visibility really put a cap on it. I took the first 22 pix in this album on that hike, to give you an idea. You can get Hamlin the next day (or make it...

The first linked painting may not be exactly to scale, but I recognized it right away, as will many. There is a more accurate rendition of that mountain, from a different angle, in your third link, and I like that one too. I think any Views member who enjoys 19th Century American landscape...

Hello Tom. That "amicus" might have been me (e.g., if it said "amicus stinks"), but I didn't write it. Glastenbury has been on my too-hike list for a long time, but my visits to Vermont are infrequent. My own little messages are usually in Latin. Vale!

Glad you had a great trip, but not surprised. The Bellows Falls portage is 2 miles, mostly by a road that wasn't bad when we did it, as to traffic. Easy enough if you have wheels to attach, but not otherwise.

That's good to know. Now that it's "gone," I'll be checking it out.

A promising title. If someone writes it, I'd spring for a copy. I don't care whether the AMC White Mountain Hiking Guide includes the Bearcamp River Trail. It is the sort of trail about which, were it extant, I would expect to find more detailed information from another source. If you are...

sardog1: Thanks for the head's-up on that episode of NH Crossroads, which is scheduled to be shown three more times, next on Sunday, July 22 at 9 am. From your link, it seems that its 29 minutes will touch on a number of things, including what may be a short stretch of the BRT in Sandwich...