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I think they are both pretty easy, even when they are challenging.

Yes, that has to be feeding behavior. Could be either nestlings or fledglings (young that have left the nest, but are still being fed). I'm not sure on the timing for BT, or if they do a second clutch. It seems late to have nestlings from a first clutch, but maybe the tough weather delayed...

Imagine the effect of having all that caffeine at once when you are not hiking, then imagine also walking over rough ground. "Energy drinks" were invented so that people would think they could drink more vodka. Real energy still only comes as protein, fats, and carbohydrates.

Snow and Nealley hatchet The Gerber weighs just under 3 lbs, supposedly, according to Amazon. The S+N has a 1.25 lb head, and I doubt the wood handle adds more than the weight of the head, so you're not losing much if anything in weight. And it looks better too (and is made out of...

These are my thoughts too, and I wrote them so on another thread. I don't really want this to be about the pros and cons of driving vs. not driving though. I'm more academically interested in just how many or how few "rough roads" there are.

(I don't think this has already been posted and I'm sorry if it has, or if it is too similar to the WMNF road status thread.) So I just wrote a post arguing somewhat off the top of my head that New England has very few rough roads that access regular hiking trailheads. I'm wondering just how...

These aren't rough roads compared to the Caribou Valley or other hit-or-miss maintenance truck roads (logging roads). Gives me an idea for a new thread...

If your goal is higher MPG, you could just walk the rough roads. I think it is somewhat silly to sacrifice day-to-day car performance in order to gain the ability to drive a handful of miles for fun -- and really, in New England when we talk about rough roads to access hiking (that are too...

Perhaps Adk_dib meant six mountains on a single day three weeks from now? I don't really do training, and I have ample experience just going and doing stuff. I think that some simple things work best. If it were me, I'd try not to do anything radically different than what you normally do --...

rup, nice use of the Thoreau spelling circa 1855. If you're willing to camp, you can probably get last-minute reservations somewhere close to Katahdin in the park. This has worked for me in the past... called up the day before and found myself at Roaring Brook the next evening. Even if you...

This is a good observation, but just to review some options already mentioned and add my two cents: If you're willing to drive a little, either hit Mount Mansfield from Underhill via the Sunset Ridge and Halfway House Trails, or Camels Hump from the east doing the Dean Trail loop over Wind Gap...

For the true Northeast Kingdom experience you should be sure to get out either north or east from Island Pond. That's where things get really wild: the woods are bigger, the moose are everywhere, and your chances of getting killed by a logging truck at a narrow underpass are higher...

There are several species of lady slipper in New England. Like nartreb already said, the white ones that everyone has posted about are the common pink lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule). I think the flower color is genetic, so while certain weather conditions might favor one variety over...

Really? I think the guy is in the wrong too, but this is a particularly uncharitable view of human imperfection.

Live video feed would be helpful too. Sometimes it can be a real pain to have to translate words into pictures.

Dude, you are overthinking this. And you absolutely cannot overthink having fun in the rain, you've just got to go do it. Don't get me wrong, I love hiking in the rain, but I also happily admit when I don't want to hike in the rain. Overthinking is usually a symptom of a dangerous...

There's plenty of blame to go around. Even if the skiers initially did something stupid and got stuck out there, from what I remember reading someone at RCMP decided not to investigate an "SOS" that was observed stomped out in the snow. Consider how the man who survived must feel -- he called...

I'd suggest that anyone attending the meeting read about the Champion Lands Project, which offers a public-private partnership model for conserving cut-over working forest. I'd be surprised if it isn't on the minds of the people who are thinking big for the future of the Mahoosuc region.

Just an unsolicited and rude observation (:o), but if it is your GF's birthday, and she's not that into hiking, why are you doing what you want to do? You should do what she wants to do. Instead of climbing a 4000-footer by ski trails (....boring!...) why not ride the lift or whatever to do...

Would you be willing to explain more of the reasoning for the options you came up with? Not being nutritionally minded at this level, I'd be interested to learn the thinking behind this. Oh, and as an aside, in the book Why We Run, Bernd Heinrich writes about a test he did for ultramarathons...