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Right now nobody can ski in Vermont; there's no snow. The map is updated every week; a few weeks ago basically all of NH was fine; things will be different again (how, who knows) by ski season.

Most of the shelters/tentsites are within the state park system (which includes reservations, forests, etc.) There's apparently one NPS-managed shelter, which is also closed. I'm pretty sure stealth camping within the AT corridor is not permitted in Mass (although I cannot find the cite right...

WHP is probably going to be somewhat different this year, but it's still one of the best ways to meet people who are interested in taking new people on winter backpacks. There aren't too many groups formed around meeting new people for winter backpacks simply because it's a very committing thing...

Appalachian Trail shelters, campsites, and privies within the Massachusetts state parks system are closed for the 2020 hiking season. Linked from the ATC closure page.

Star Lake is gone.

It happens all the way up...Dover and Rollinsford are in the middle of a long-simmering boundary dispute (there's a road that's either on the town line or just barely entirely in one town or the other) despite the requirement to walk the bounds regularly.

Vermont, too...I'm sure a lot of folks winding up in NH had or would have had Vermont plans.

It's always bursty, typical of a relatively low-frequency Poisson process. The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy; they just don't always spur discussion. F&G handles public release of information. There was at least one rescue mentioned on their FB page (F&G Law Enforcement and...

People are using the term for several different but related things. Mats specifically did unsupported single push (plus push-ups on the summit) and was the first in modern times to resurrect the idea. Phil Carcia did single push but supported. Sounds like three attempts going on at once right...

Great. Now I'm going to have to carry my license plate up. More seriously, I suspect the end result would be somewhat higher pressure on Lakes. Little of the road and cog crowd would go down there, but it may change the "long stop of the day" for hikers.

I think the smaller scale is mostly having the effect of people staying closer to Laconia, same density smaller area rather than lower density over the same area. The pictures from Laconia are still looking pretty crowded (although not quite as packed as typical). Usually we have massive bike...

It is often dry this late in the year, so I wouldn't rely on it.

Don't even need to go that far. Just take your plates off; you'll fit right in. Or get a piece of paper, write "Motor Vehicle Plate 097XUX" on it and slap it over the RI plates.

There is no patch for the BRT (you don't go over all the list peaks) and there is no legal camping in the Belknaps outside of the frontcountry site at Gunstock.

This is already happening, as it's not like the AMC maps are the first electronic maps ever. Nope...they have to be downloaded through the app and I had to click some checkbox of "I understand this isn't a paper map and is only viewable through the app." You might be able to go rummaging around...

There are eight, as they have the Monadnock and Cardigan ones as well. Those latter two are separate, and don't include the rest of the Southern NH Trail Guide maps (notably the Belknaps, but the http://belknaprangetrails.org/ map works with Avenza.) The Presi map includes the Washington...

Do you mean the crossing of the Dry River on the Mt. Eisenhower Trail between the Dry River Trail and the Dry River Cutoff? (If you don't have a post-Irene map, you probably want to get one.) As of this past Sunday morning it was not hoppable but fordable with reasonable caution. Just above...

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I had a bike part go from Frankfurt on 29 June to "inbound to customs" in NY on 11 July, nothing in between. It's hard to tell if the delay is in finding a flight with cargo space or in Customs staffing. A friend had a similar wait for an air filter from the UK. International supply chains are...

I haven't read all 300+ pages, but there's no mention of the Kilkenny in the bill (which became the New Hampshire Wilderness Act of 1984, establishing the Pemi and Sandwich, and expanding the Presi/Dry River.) Searching for Kilkenny gives the letter from The Wilderness Society (244) in favor of...