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Pretty sure I got it right- I started at the trailhead closer to Keene, which is further north. Hence, the "northern trailhead." :) I never thought about skiing back- I had thought about trying to find a friend to hike it with me so we could have two cars, but they all had to work... EDIT...

Huh... weren't there a bunch more posts in this thread? They seem to have disappeared...

Click Here To View Pictures Decided to climb Pitchoff yesterday- I'd climbed it once before a few years ago (in the middle of a snowstorm at night), but that was from the south side. I'd never climbed it from the northern trailhead before, so I was eager to red line some new trails on my...

Gremlin, I think you're confusing the Seward trailhead (in Coreys) with the Santanoni trailhead (in Upper Works). The Seward trailhead is no where near the Allen trailhead. But yes, the lot at the Santanoni trailhead often is not plowed. :) In Coreys, the the road will only occasionally be...

I'm not sure what kind of training National Park Law Enforcement Rangers get, but in NYS, the Forest Rangers receive pretty much the same training as the State Police (the attend an academy and such). I would imagine that the law enforcement rangers for the Park Service also receive a level of...

This is what the sign at the gate says: It would seem to indicate that the gate is left open all winter, and only closed in the spring. Just because the gate is open though doesn't mean that the road is passable (or plowed). The road is pretty much always "travel at your own risk" in...

There's also commonly a third type of ranger besides the law enforcement and interpretive rangers- backcountry patrol. They are usually somewhere in between the two in terms of their enforcement powers and training. Typically, they try to use education of LNT techniques to meet their...

I did ascend the chimney on the right side of the cliff midslope. Although this wasn't much better- still enough ice to result in a lack of decent hand-holds. The one advantage to it though was that if my feel, it would just be a short 5 foot fall that would result in mostly bruises to my ego...

I'll third the recommendation for OR brand gaiters. :)

Click Here For More Pictures I only needed Basin for my winter 46 (in fact Saddleback was my very first winter high peak, way back in January 2006), but I'd never hiked the trail between Basin and Saddleback before, and decided to make a loop out of it. Arrived at the trailhead at approxmately...

That was last updated yesterday... things up here have changed quite a bit in the past 24 hours. For the worse, if you're into backcountry skiing/snowshoeing. :( For the better if you have to pay to have your driveway plowed. :)

It has been skied already this season. However, pretty much all of the snow is melting in Saranac Lake this morning due to warm temperatures and rain. I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that the lower portions of the road aren't skiable right now, and even when things freeze again, there will...

Just so he doesn't look like he's off his rocker, Peakbagrs post was in response to mine which I deleted. His option of acclimatization through constant hikes through the fall sounds like a much better option than what I had proposed. Sorry! :(

I know this is an older thread, but here's a similar image I took a little over a year ago. Pretty obvious that the streaked lines above the fire are small embers getting carried aloft by the smoke...

Stewart's has its own brand of energy drinks now... 99 cents for a standard soda can...

It does indeed depend on the usage, and I agree that for long distances that are almost global in scale, lat-long or another geodetic system that works on a sphere would be better. The thread is on a hiking message board and is about climbing mountains, though, not about sailing or flying-...

If I was an employer who had an employee laugh in my face about what I was resume worthy, they'd probably have a hard time keeping their job (or even getting it in the first place!) ;) Of course, my employers have all been somehow related to the field of Natural Resources Management, so a love...

I know that many of the bog bridges we built on the NFCT we did our best not to leave any gaps... it's not always easy, however. Sometimes you don't have the best wood available and you have to make do with what you've got.

They are small, but the resolution on them is decent. I've never had any problems with them. I wouldn't expect to be able to use a GPS by itself for complicated backcountry navigation anyways- your'e still going to want your hiking/topo map out and ready, which makes it much easier to see the...

UTM is much better than Lat/Long to look at your GPS coordinates, and plot your general location on a topo/hiking map quickly and easily, because the scale is the same in both the X and Y axis. With a little bit of practice, you can also get quite good at it without having to resort to any...