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Wednesday, September 26, 2007: Weather for the day was iffy - clouding up with a good chance of showers and/or thunderstorms in the afternoon. But with an early start, I might be able to bag nearby Big Spencer before the rain came. Big Spencer isn’t a climb you want to do in the rain. The...

Tuesday, September 25 2007: Maine’s Baker Mountain is a key to both the Finest Fifty and Northeast 2k prominence lists, requiring a long drive on marginal logging roads and a lengthy bushwhack through thick woods. Some hike Baker’s nearly three mile long ridge, bagging South Baker and Middle...

Monday, September 24 2007 (AM): Since I’d overnighted in Baxter, climbing Doubletop on the Park’s western side seemed logical. (Doubletop #39 Finest Fifty, #50 Northeast 2,000 prominence list). I drove the perimeter road south toward Nesowadnehunk Field, meeting two mammoth moose along the...

(continued) Sunday, September 23, 2007: After stealth car camping somewhere off an obscure logging road deep in the woods northeast of Baxter, I hit the Matagamon Gate Sunday morning at 6:30, then drove the short distance to South Branch campground where I reserved a tentsite for the evening...

Sure, NH and NY trump Maine when tallying the tallest mountains in the northeast. But check out the lists ranking mountains by “prominence” - a mountain’s height measured from its base rather than just its “above sea level” height. Maine has more mountains on both the “Northeast 2 thousand...

Actually, it's really the 111 after all. 67 in New England, 2 in the Catskills and 46 in the Adirondacks make 115...but subtract 4 from the Adirondack 46 that aren't true 4 thousands (Nye, Blake, Couchsachraga and Cliff) and voila... 111.

It's about time you got off your arse, Viceroy, and did something challenging. Disappointing time, though. I'm looking at the topo... Seven hours shoulda been about right. You musta had a long lunch on TT. :D

Wow! With you and buckyball 1, we have two NEHH finishers on the same woeful weather day! Congratulations, Mike. Nice to see you had the good company of Poison Ivy, too. Are you claiming a record for taking 23 years to finish this list?! I'm willing to bet you're the first to call both...

Great report! Someone should compile all the various Scar reports and put 'em in book form. A book of horrors. (Not for the faint of heart.) Scar whacks are tough enough without componding the woes with weather. Congratulations, you two, for sticking with it through very trying conditions. And...

Tue, Wed, or Thu... Sylvan St., Grog and/or Black Cow... No special preference. Whatever night's decided, it's a guarantee I'll have to work late, though!

So long's it's not the last week in September... I'll be whackin' in Maine then.... Any votes for the Winner's Circle??!

Sounds like your trip had it all! That's the kind of adventure I can ruminate over for days afterward, recalling all the little surprises out there in the unknown. Sure beats several mindless hours along a trail with the multitudes shuffling up to the top, eh?

I've never climbed Singepole Ridge and wondered what trail you hiked. Whatever it's called, I suggest renaming it the Comeback Trail. Great that you're back at it, Paul!! And thanks for the inspiring TR, MT. Made my day.

Okay, Dave Metsky, where did you hide the Northeast US reduced spire list? As Injektilo indicates, the web address no longer accesses this list. Where can it be found now? I printed out a copy a couple of years ago, and it's a great list. I'm sure other baggers would be interested.

Surprise, surprise, Jim, that snowmobile track next to the jar-bearing tree connects with a network that leads eventually to a road in the valley off to the east. Ergo, it's not a bushwhack peak (unless you choose to make it one)!

Just did an "advance search" for "Eagle Cliff herd path" and came up with Albee's report from November '06. He found a herd path marked with two cairns just .3 miles from the Greenleaf trailhead. The herd path may be a route used by technical climbers, but it continues beyond the cliffs...

I'd never been up the Greenleaf trail, but found myself with a few spare hours late Saturday and thought I'd hike it up to the col to check out Eagle Cliff. I did, and began descending a little after six. Then I spied a herd path heading northeast back up toward the cliffs. Did it lead to the...

Did you happen to run into Rod Serling amongst the ruins atop East??

Ten days ago there was ample water, but you need a long arm and a pot to reach way down to get to it. There's a plastic jug with the top cut off that serves as a dipper, tied to a rope, but the rope isn't long enough to reach the water below. I suppose you could cut the rope. The well has a...

East, Vt, is easily done from Gallup Mills, a couple of rustic buildings clustered around a bridge over a creek called Moose River. You'll parallel that creek upstream on a good road, eventually coming to a wide turnout just before an intersection. Fishermen park here to fish the stream. Just...