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Great work, @sierra!

@SpencerVT didn't say "hiking," he said "trail running." The guy is a schmuck for not carrying a spare light or batteries, cold-weather gear, and not anticipating the trail conditions. Given his lack of preparedness, it's better that his family called early.

Thank you, @Nessmuk, for preaching the Gospel of Totality! My family and I caught it from the shores of Memphramagog. Words and photos cannot do it justice.

Both the New Yorker and the Times pieces let Bill Stenger off the hook. He had a long history of breaking the law over the course of his tenure at Jay, and his claims of "“I’m outraged at what [Quiros] did and I feel abused,” are a load of b.s. Under Stenger's leadership, Jay Peak repeatedly...

Here's David Goodman's fresh telling of the tragic climb: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/29/magazine/an-ice-climbing-disaster-on-mount-katahdin-a-race-to-save-lives/.

Good catch! The state's site still says that it is closed for renovations. https://www.mass.gov/location-details/camping-at-mount-greylock

I think that Sperry Campground on Mt. Greylock is a great first-backpacking location. Once a car-camping campground the state closed the Sperry Rd. to vehicular traffic, it's now about a two-mile, mostly level hike in (1.3 miles on the Campground Trail and another 0.5+ on Sperry Road). The...

I would agree, and I had a similar goal, redlining the Mt. Mansfield trail system a number of years ago. There are a number of gems. I sent you a PM.

A nice thing about Dachstein mittens is that you have just enough dexterity to do basic things. I have Raynauds, so my hands can go to unusable in minutes to seconds. I've also spent many days & nights backcountry skiing in sub-zero temps down to -30º F or so. I've taken to using medical gloves...

Followup: My Vaude Himalay Mitten arrived today from British Amazon. They are as heavy and dense as the heaviest and densest of my previous Dachstein mittens. The size 8 Vaude is the equivilent of my size 7 pair from the Sweater Chalet, but the former have been boiled to a much denser, thicker...

Aren't Gold Brook and Beaudry Rd. the one and the same? The sign on 27 and in the DeLorme call it Gold Brook Rd., but the USGS topos, Mapbuilder and OpenStreet maps call it Beaudry Rd. When I was saying "through to 201," I was thinking Gold Brook/Beaudry to Spencer>Hardscrabble. Are the gates...

@NH2112, do you know if Gold Brook/Beaudry Rd. passable in winter? E.g. access to Kibby Mountain and other peaks in the Beaudry? If so, does it go to through to 201 in the winter? Is there any word on washouts from the late-fall storms?

The Dachstein mittens that Sweaters International sold and appear to now be sold be the Sweater Chalet—a rebranding of Sweaters International under new ownership?—for a staggering $80, are not as good as the Dachstein mittens once sold at the dearly departed Climb High. The inferiority of the SI...

No. By the time he recognized that he was in trouble, he would have been tired and cold, and in a relatively exposed stretch. Finding enough fuel and a sheltered location is no easy feat in those conditions and in order to start the fire he'd likely have to remove at the least the outer...

Who said that nobody's been charged in 45 years? Aside from Killington, I don't know that Vermont has more of a problem than other northeastern states, but if they do, it's because they have better ski areas. Killington, however, definitely has a "lost skier" problem, largely because of the...

The three keys to a good death: Do as many things in life as you can. Love what you do. Die doing what you love. Example #1: Person A loves to drive their car. Person dies in a fiery car crash. Person died doing what they loved. Example #2: Person B loves going for walks. Person dies from...

I recognized what you were saying, @Andrew, but in my view dying at 75 or 80 in a fiery crash or after a battle with dementia is better than dying at 37 "doing what you loved," especially when it means that your child does not get to know you and you do not get to see your child grow up...

What's good about dying doing something you loved? I don't see anything good about Christopher Roma's death. His son will never know his father and that really sucks. Hopefully we'll learn what was in his kit.

Big Agnes Copper Spur HV UL1. It's lighter, more roomy, and ventilates better. Then there's this bivy, which is more like the one in your Amazon link, but I have no idea as to the quality.

Ha! I drove up there on Friday to do Kibby. Alack, alas, I don't have my snows on my 2WD sedan yet and I only got 1.5 in on Gold Brook Road before I couldn't go any further. Are you using the DeLorme maps to locate the summits and navigate?