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I love it when you talk snow, SARDog. For the NH skiers among us: Bretton Woods was blowing snow all last week on several trails, but (no doubt seeing the mid-term forecast was warm) apparently decided not to groom out the whales -- the better to withstand 55 degrees. They did open yesterday...

Halloween Coyote... I was out doing errands with my family early last Saturday afternoon, driving along a back road in Holderness, NH... looked off to the right and saw a gorgeous, big, healthy coyote standing out in the middle of a field (next to a horse pasture, but this field didn't appear...

Someone being attacked, or someone dying? On the attack front -- not so rare, especially if you take into account smaller children. When coyotes really moved into Boston's South Shore about 15 years ago, my own personal first live sighting coincided with a small child being attacked and...

I haven't been to Windblown since the early 80s (and long before I was a mountain biker)... but I can vouch for the net-positive impact developing mountain biking trails has had on the Kingdom Trails in East Burke, VT. We were there last month, and were uniformly impressed with the riding -- it...

Rejean -- this is somewhat hearsay, and the balance is speculation, but... Old Skidder to Flume is a Waterville Valley Resort-maintained cross country trail, which means it is highly probable that it has recently been mowed, reducing the puckerbrush which is prevalent in the summer. I have...

If you were asking me, no... no known heart condition. It's more curiosity / interest / desire to understand what's going on inside the machine, just like a tachometer on a car. When I am working out (which is the reason I give my wife for disappearing for a couple of hours each weekend...

Thanks, Raymond... really good article. Hope I can see the show on BBCAmerica. I shared the link with a good friend who suffers paralyzing FOB (Fear of Bears).

I have a Suunto multisport watch with chest strap, and have used it for hiking, skiing, and biking -- you do get an interesting stream of data (this particular watch can plot HR against, for example, elevation right on the display). It's also fun looking at the rate of descent when downhill...

Just when I was bemoaning the loss of a brazen bear... A friend came down my driveway last night about 6:30, just in time to watch what she is pretty sure was a small black bear scurrying off my front porch. The old boar is gone, but his legacy lives on intact.

Not that anyone was closely following the saga of this particular bear, but he met an untimely death this week, of high-speed lead-poisoning. Apparently a hunter took him sometime over the last few days. A friend had the misfortune to find the results of the field-dressing on a morning hike...

Snow was all melted at 1600 feet in Waterville Valley (looks like up to about 2500' was snow-free), but there was still a good coating on the ski trails at 3000' when we left town this AM. Not quite hike-and-ski yet, though.

Guthook and Gary are headed out of the Whites today MFurgal64 and I picked Guthook and his hiking partner Gary up at Drake's Brook in Waterville Valley at 6:30 this AM and gave them a lift to Bristol, NH, on their way to Cardigan Lodge. They had had a couple of good days since I saw them on...

Snowing hard at 6:30am in WV... There was about a half-inch down on the ground and on my car, but the roads were just wet at that point. It was snowing but not sticking below about 1100 feet, and raining in Plymouth and points south, as Paradox pointed out. My wife reported that it was...

Ryan is making good progress on his NE Trail trek... I met up with Guthook and Gary this afternoon to hand-off their mail-drops. They had come down from north of the Kancamagus, over East Osceola, Osceola and Tecumseh (and more -- no doubt leaving out elements of an epic day). They were both...

As ever. Sardog1, I am with you in the snow-cheering section. I just wish we could get the NWS to STOP SENDING EVERYDAMNTHING IN ALL CAPS. Completely unreadable. I am also vaguely sympathetic to Guthook and Gary, who are in WV environs tonight, going out over the Tripyramids and Passaconaway...

If you're following Guthook's trek... I spoke briefly with Ryan on Saturday to confirm a supply drop for next weekend in Waterville Valley. He said that they were in the midst of updating their plans to account for conditions they'd encountered en route... some weather had encroached, but he...

Surprising level of snark there, Caleb. You asked for advice and you got it. I didn't detect racism in anyone's responses, just a reality orientation. I've been to Cancun and environs seven or eight times over the last decade, and I really like the area, and love the people. That said, it...

Lovely as always, Patrick. You made (rescued) my day.

Given the history and heritage of logging in Waterville Valley, I'd have to guess it was a marker for skidders or logging trucks (or I suppose wagon teams?). I suspect Smart's Brook Trail was a trunk trail fed by the smaller logging roads that have grown back in; further guessing that, as a...

I can't believe no one else asked Doug Paul about the Snow Alternative. Really? Seriously? Good God man, I use snow for this duty <heh heh... he said "doody">, I won't have to go again for a month, minimum.