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Saturday March 6, 2010 Trail Conditions: Nineteen Mile Brook trail well packed, I bare booted. A previous party broke out the Carter Dome trail broken out to ~3500'. They lost the trail and turned around. Just below where they stopped, I bushwacked climbers left for maybe 10 minutes in open...

Saturday Feb 6, 2010 Trail Conditions: Amphibranch, a few inches of powder over old snow shoe tracks. I barebooted, probably should have put on snow shoes or traction. Spur, old snow shoe tracks, heavily drifted, snow shoes necessary. Above tree line: wind scoured snow and ice. I used snow...

Saturday, January 30, 2010 Trail Conditions: Crusty snow with an inch or two of powder low, 4 - 6 inches powder with deeper drifts higher up. Special Equipment Required: I often carry but rarely wear snowshoes. They were very useful today. Some of the stream crossings are on ice flows...

time for tuckerman A search on Raymonds Cataract at http://timefortuckerman.com/ will turn up some info. I didn't see a TR though.

Thanks for the TR on Black Angel trail. I'd like to hike it my with dog Becker even though he's already been on Carter Dome via a loop hike via the Bog Brook, Rainbow and Wildcat River trails from Carter Notch Road. I highly recommend this loop and you won't see many people on at least the Bog...

Scudder's White Mountain Guide I hiked Magalloway Friday the 25'th after bailing out on an attempt at Scar Ridge due to rain in Lincoln. By the time I got to Pittsburgh (long drive!), the sky had cleared and I got pretty much the same awesome views you did. Apparently the cabin next to the...

crawford path, dry river, great gulf Crawford path from Crawford Notch, camp in Dry River drainage, 1-2 nights. Dry River trail has shelters and forest service designated sites. Then 1-2 nights in Great Gulf. There's several designated sights on the Great Gulf Trail. I especially like the...

Sierra weather couldn't be better I'm going to have agree with a previous post by Kevin Rooney in Part 3 of this TR. For hiking, scrambling and rock climbing, I'd say the Sierras are #1. I have never gotten bad weather on any of my trips (although forest fire smoke one year wasn't great). I...

Thorndike is OK for summer camping Camping at Stovepipe Wells would have been hard core. It was 110F in the shade at 10 in the morning when I drove through there on the way to Wildrose Canyon (i.e. the Wildrose and Telescope trail head):eek: I didn't even want to get out of the car. Camping...

Mono Divide High Country The final leg of this trip was a 6 day backpack in the Mono Divide High Country just north of Kings Canyon. After hiking out of Whitney, I went back to the Lone Pine Ranger Station for the 11:00 AM drawing and got a unclaimed/walk in permit for the Piute Pass trail...

Mount Whitney The Ranger Station at Lone Pine releases unclaimed Mount Whitney permits at 11:00 AM every morning. I got there at 10:30 AM Monday August 3. I thought I might get a day hike permit or maybe the Mountaineers Route (which was free of snow). At 11:00, all parties waiting for...

This was primarily a High Sierra, off trail, backpack with some easy scramble peaks. It also gave me a chance for some ultra-prominence peak bagging. I didn't have a permit reservation for Whitney but I've heard it's pretty easy to get an unclaimed permit for Whitney and I was not...

Where are the logs? Nice photos. I'd like to see a photo of the deluge with the logs and tires floating down the street ;)

Great Weather! Congratulations on getting some awesome Sangre de Christo Peaks! I was in the same area last year (August 3 - 9, 2008). There wasn't one day that we didn't get caught in thunderstorms with rain, hail, etc. When we hiked into Lake Como, we didn't even get to see Blanca or...

If you're staying at Katahdin Stream campground and you get a rainy day (or two), the AT to Daicey Pond and the Grassy Pond trail make a great loop. It looks like the park has extended the Grassy Pond trail to the Tote road, just across from the main Kahandin Stream campground entrance. There...

Thursday July 23, 2009, we set out on the North Brother, South Brother and Coe loop with Fort as an option. All summits were in an out of the clouds and it was windy, cold, and very wet on the top of North Brother. We found the start of the Fort Mountain herd path but it was looking like we...

Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway and Cardigan You could substantially reduce your road walk via the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway (http://www.srkg.com/) and trails in the Cardigan Mountain State Forest.

Western Spirit I did a five day trip in Crested Butte with Western Spirit a couple summer ago: http://www.westernspirit.com/tripinfo.cfm?id=1198791838390 Absolutely *fantastic* mountain biking. This trip was 4 nights of tent camping. Not huts, but it was pretty cush because they do all the...

My USGS maps (Maptech and Topo!) don't show the Eddy Brook logging road going all the way to the Long Trail/At (which it does). It's easy to follow all the way although a couple of the stream crossings might require getting your feet wet. When I hiked it last summer as part of a loop trip with...

Saturday May 2, 2009: Trail Conditions: Baldface Circle Trail, south section from trailhead to South Baldface, clear and dry to shelter, slabs mostly dry, a couple very short snow patches just below the South Baldface summit. South Baldface to North Baldface, short sections of soft snow with...