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If the road is drivable by a car, it should be fair game to use a bicycle instead. It’s also apparently fair — not only fair, but recommended — to carry a shovel in your car’s trunk and repair the road yourself. Gene Danielle used to point out that a few minutes of road repair (a few minutes’...

Maybe it’s in that list, I don’t see it, but the supposed picnic area — more like two outhouses — between Gale River Road and Haystack Road is a fee area, too.

Grey J: Ha! I don’t drink, though. (No alcohol at all, and not enough water either, for that matter.) Roy, that’s a good idea. I’ll just have to wade through all those points sometime, which is an even bigger pain because I never got the GPS to work with the new computer, so I always have to...

Regarding Tom’s comment at the end here, that’s what I thought. I remember a couple of years ago DougPaul pointed out that the GPS’s straight-across-through-the-air distance from North Kinsman to Lafayette wouldn’t differ much from the actual walking distance because of the landscape’s ups and...

What was the story behind the closure of the old McCrillis Path in Whiteface Intervale? I hiked the new route on Friday and saw the extension of the road or driveway, where the earlier route went, but don’t know its history.

I paid $2.50 to park at the Seven Dwarfs Motel, too, but that and Lowe’s aren’t really trail heads, they’re just places near enough to trails to be convenient for some hikers. They weren’t built with trail access in mind, though, as far as I know. I think when we climbed Mount Clay back in 1996...

Eric Ryback and his brother hiked it ages ago, I think they were the very first, but this fellow Balls says, ‘‘Traditionally hikers have hiked many different alternate routes under the ‘it’s a corridor not a trail concept.’ These alternate routes with the CDT together add up to between 2,600 and...

I climbed North Twin on Saturday afternoon. When I crossed the Little River (at the ‘‘third crossing’’ — I had taken the bypass path past the first two crossings), I checked my GPS. It read 1.99 mile. I knew it was supposed to be 1.8 mile at that point, but 1.99 was close enough, especially as...

A father and daughter from Oregon have apparently become the first to hike the official Continental Divide Trail. Calling themselves Balls and Sunshine, the story began when Balls finished section-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2010. His older daughter, who I guess was 10 years old at the...

One strolled through the campsite next to mine the first time I camped at Roaring Brook, but that was in May, just a few days after the park reopened for the season. May 1992, that is. I’m pretty sure that Sandy Stream Pond is even closer — only three-tenths of a mile from the campground, but...

I discovered that that trail is shown on the National Geographic Topo! map, unnamed. It shows the upper end of the trail on E Peak. Map Adventures seems to show it on E also, but word is its terminus is actually in the col. Dave’s map shows it in the col, too, and swinging toward D Peak before...

Some old reports here mentioned some confusing, unmarked intersections. I thought they were up higher, but maybe not. I may give it a try, anyway.

Thanks, Dave. I had seen a small version of that map, but not the big one you supplied. Kevin, it’s a ski trail that I saw marked on the Map Adventures White Mountains map, but not the AMC maps. Goes from the D-E col south. Looks like it would shorten a loop of the Wildcats from the south.

Thanks. I want to climb the Wildcats in September, though. (I insist I’m not working on The Grid, but I am close to finishing September, so ... And I’ve already done the Ridge Trail twice, so for red-lining purposes, which I’m also not working on ...)

Has anyone been on this trail recently? I found some old reports, and I’m wondering if conditions have worsened or improved. How do the mudholes compare with, say, the Bradley Pond Trail in the Adirondacks? Also, is there a local place where I could get a map showing the ski trails, or would I...

I picked up about a dozen empties yesterday during a two-mile walk, so there doesn’t seem to be too much concern about the deposits being recovered by the people paying them around here, anyway.

Needs a remix, with Wildcat D in there.

My son wished he could take a helicopter down from the top when he was 5 or 6, but he outgrew it.

Thanks for finding that and sharing it here. The image is now my computer’s desktop background.

Mendon is an easy bushwhack. I have the impression it was the first bushwhack for many of us. I just followed directions from this website that I printed out. That was 10 years ago. Dorset, ditto, I’m pretty sure. DeLorme map to find the trail head, probably the trails were marked on it, too...