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Picked a good day for it too :-) He ended up impressing me by identifying 4 different kinds of edible mushrooms. Not bad for an 8 year old kid. :-)

I ended up hiking Chocoroua with my nephew and then when he fell asleep in the car I figured I'd drive to Crawford Notch and pitched a tent at the Zealand campsite. $18 wow. :-) ... anyway. I then took him to the swimming hole off old Cherry road and that was all worth the trouble. However he...

Thanks. Because this is car camping I will throw tenting stuff into the car as well and take my chances :-)

Howdy. I want to take my 8 year old nephew hiking Chocoroua and I'm looking to finish the hike with a nice campsite along a river or a brook, preferably with 2 hammocking trees. I don't usually do car camping and consequently never camped in any of the campgrounds along the Kanc. I think I...

Yeah. I don't know if they will plow and maintain the road in the winter months to count vehicles during the winter months. The southern loop section is basically closed in the winter. The northern section is groomed for cross country/snowshoeing and thus car counters are not there either. I...

It's good for most winter hiking if You watch your forecasts carefully but in reality you need another ($$$) hardshell for winter, a sturdier, heavier, more windproof and more rain repellent shell in your arsenal. The people I know will use woll layers, then houdini shell - if the weather is...

Can't go wrong with Patagonia Houdini

yeah that could be a double edged sword. on one side it could make skiing on broken snowmobile trail more fun yet on another hand one has to smell the fumes, listen to the noise and possibly share a campsite with drunken aholes :-) revving up the engines at 11pm

Got my info - it's plowed. Tons of ice fishing out there.

I'm guessing Chamberlain Bridge would be a nice access point but I'm not sure if this road is plowed in the winter.

I wonder if anyone knows. I was just pondering a backcountry expedition over lakes to reach the abandoned locomotives on Eagle Lake. Where is the closest plowed and drivable road? I usually do not drive any further than Abol bridge on the Golden Road :-)

I finished a BSP thru yesterday and was shuttled from Mattagammon to Abol Bridge by a man who ran a hunting lodge for 40 years and now has passed the torch to his children. He talked about the new plant and thought it was going to add about 100 jobs. He did not think it would be jobs for those...

Somebody should put in an underwater trailhead sign to get people started

Every generation seems to be sentimental about their historical importance and thinking that dark ages follow after their glorious era... I guess the positive is they focus only on the positives while ignoring their destructive impact on this planet

I just donated. Thanks for the work.

10 or 15 years ago I did buy the icebox tool. Well, let's just say it isn't as easy as in the video and the same applies as with a quinzee - lot of work, soaking your clothing with sweat and exposure to snow

Makes sense but how do we address this in the context of having snowshoes with you as a mandatory safety equipment or otherwise being negligent if majority of the snowshoes carried by White Mountains hikers will not be effective when a person gets lost and stuck in chest deep snow? :-)

Therein lies the conundrum. 99% of the time wearing big snowshoes is probably bordeline idiotic in the whites. On popular hiking trails the MSR's of the world do the trick to keep the trail in safe hiking condition therefore one could surmise that by keeping it in safe hiking condition such...

IMHO - when the snow gets deep and unconsolidated and you get off the trail ... there is no modern snowshoe that has enough floatation. Perhaps the traditional Huron 14" inchers work in such conditions - I'm actually planning to test them out soon because I've been many times in deep snow...

I have done a Boncliff trip last winter where I biked to the wilderness boundary and left the bike in the woods. Then I hiked Bondcliff and back and rode out back to Lincoln woods. It made the otherwise somewhat boring hike out more interesting. It would be nice to expand this ride further on...