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I might be inclined to agree. For what it's worth, though, I prefer leather laces, approximately square in cross-section that came with my Limmer (custom) boots years ago. At first I thought those laces to be an affectation -- a gimmick -- but in the first season the laces demonstrated their...

Yikes! Somehow, I find it difficult to imagine this is an issue, or even a topic of casual conversation. Have hikers become such a self-absorbed bunch that we can’t imagine other hikers we meet routinely and cheerfully granting the simple favor of taking our picture, with our own camera...

Great shots, as would be expected from the Luminous Landscape site. Interesting, that a good majority of the photos include a human element tyhat helps "tell the story." That may provide a tip for our own hiking and climbing photography. Of course, the purely "scenic" photos are dynamite...

My stuff is saved on DVDs, CDs, and to a portable external hard drive. A friend converts all his RAW files to Digital Negative format, for longer term recoverability. This addresses software issues, but not storage device/media issues. The other day I was going through files of material...

In the strict sense, of "having a horse in the race" only if one is a New Hampshire resident, you are of course right. But as an outsider who may (or now may not) choose to go hiking in New Hampshire, I certainly do have an interest in this law, and in this particular case, in all their...

I could not agree more. As a starting point, what is the actual history of fines being levied under the “reckless hiker” and now “negligent hiker” law? Does anybody really know? How many fines have been levied? In what amounts? What were the circumstances that precipitated the decision to...

At the risk of creating thread drift, I acknowledge that hikers have a reputation for being cheapskates. But I have long wondered how much underlying truth there is to support that reputation. Relatively speaking, after all, hiking is a quiet, low impact, highly accessible, low visibility...

Do take the ferry from Charlotte to Essex. It is a wonderful way to enter the Adirondacks from Vermont, and return. The drive from Essex to Lake Placid will take an hour, at least. That might be your starting point for calculating whether the Yahoo Maps estimate is close. For years, Mrs. G...

My personal library holds a copy of each ADK guidebook covering the High Peaks from the 7th (1962) through 13th (2004) editions. The books (and accompanying maps) do provide information about trails and shelters that have been abandoned or substantially rerouted or replaced, and are very...

First of all, let’s get over the idea the NH law is intended to recover costs associated with rescue operations. If the real intent were to recover costs, the law would provide for billings (charges) in every case. This law evidently does not do that. It is directed only selectively at...

With Pipe & Book has long been one of my favorite places and best reasons to visit Lake Placid. Sad to see it go, but the owners certainly have earned their retirement. May they enjoy their "new life" fully. G.

My 1-3/4 lb, wood handled Hudson Bay pattern axe from LL Bean has seen 40 years of service, and should see that many more, or more. It is an excellent lightweight camp axe with head heavy enough and handle long enough to tackle serious work, including firewood splitting. It is kept keen with...

Quite frankly, it was, at least from my perspective. In cases like this I generally prefer a straightforward procedural discussion of how to get from Point A to Point B as a practical matter than a lot of what I consider technobabble dealing with esoteric fine points of the underlying...

My guess is that the version of this photo produced by Kevin in post #10 comes closest to replicating what Billy (the photographer) saw in the scene, with decent detail in both the deeper shadows and brighter highlights. Our brains are marvelous information processors in this respect. The...

I sense the same with my camera batteries (and camera body). Nikon claims a 2,900-shot battery capacity for the EN-EL4 battery pack in a D2Hs camera body. But Nikon also cites a capacity of 800 shots with that battery-camera combo under somewhat different conditions. The big juice-slurpers...

Mrs. Grumpy was an elementary schoolteacher for more than 40 years before she retired. Our summer trips invariably involved modest stone and mineral collecting – some “found” samples, and others purchased at rock, mineral and gem shops. I happen to think a lot of kids’ lives were enriched by...

This is one of those high dynamic range scenes in which it is important to retain and exhibit detail in both the highlight areas (sky, illuminated foreground rocks, etc.) and shadows (especially in that large shaded area below the prominent ridge in middle distance). So it is first and foremost...

Recently I shot a string of assignments that totaled out at somewhere between 1,500 and 1,600 exposures on a single Nikon EN-EL4 (Lithium ion) battery in my Nikon D2Hs slr camera body. (I change out my battery packs when the camera shows they are down to 10%.) The battery pack in questiuon has...

Mohammed, your next real hike is the end of a long side trip, and the beginning of a new journey for you. Best wishes ... G.

I am much less a gearhead than a packrat (no pun intended). My collection includes old Kelty frame packs, a couple of really great ca 1971-72 Alpine Designs day packs, and three or four more recent smaller packs for day use, including a Mountainsmith lumbar pack with shoulder straps that so far...