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In doing a little more research today, I found several references to "Walker's Ice Caves" in Woodstock. My source was the "White Mountain Echo and Tourists' Register" from the years 1893-1896. Unfortunately there's no mention of where these caves were or how to get to them. Given the time...

FYI, Elmer Woodbury wrote in the early 1900s that the builders of the first road through Kinsman Notch (1810) probably knew of the existence of the Lost River caves, but Royal Jackman and his son, Lyman, are generally credited with their "discovery" during an 1852 fishing trip in the vicinity of...

For what it's worth, it's been mainly a rain/freezing rain event here in Littleton. We had maybe two inches of snow overnight and early this morning, but there's been no accumulation at all since 9 a.m. The car had a nice coating of ice at noon and the freezing precipitation continues to fall as...

Waumbek is correct in her assertion that Ice Caves referenced by Carpenter were indeed also included Sweetser's early White Mountain guides. He notes that the mile-long path to the caves began about 3/4 m. north of Woodstock village; in other words, well below North Woodstock. I'm not familiar...

In Frank Carpenter's 1898 guide to Franconia Notch and the Pemi Valley, he includes a description of the so-called "Ice Caves." Here's what he wrote: "Leave the road three miles south of North Woodstock at Fern Hill Farm (Sylvester Sawyer's) opposite the house, beside a sugar house or shed...

The old railroad grade shown on the map is the former B&M branch that ran from Bretton Woods to the Cog Base Station. The RR grade is pretty obvious if you know where to look and are passing over the Mt. Clinton Road. Though I have never walked it, it looks to be pretty open from the road back...

One of the major reasons for the change in the hiker billing law is Fish and Game's ongoing fiscal crisis. The department has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years on search and rescue missions (not all hiker rescues, either) and earlier this year depleted all funds left in its...

Mt. Clinton Road entrance remained unplowed today (Friday, 3:30 p.m.), so one can probably safely assume it will remain that way through the weekend. It looked to me as though CP hikers were parking near the entrance to the Highland Center as there was a ring of cars there, and only one near the...

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the elevation difference between the winter parking area to Zealand Road and the Hale Brook Trailhead is approximately 250 feet. Route 302 and the Ammonoosuc River are at about 1500 feet elevation; the trailhead to the Sugarloaves is at 1640...

Just for the record, I measured the mileage this afternoon and it's about 0.6 mile from the USFS lot to the lower hiker's parking lot at the Cog, and about 0.8 mile from the USFS lot to the upper Cog lot next to the base station.

The top of the Zeacliffs--solo--in a cramped one-man tent during an all-night wave of violent thunderstorms. Spectacular, but also very frightening.

For what it's worth, I'm in the wholesale business and sell various hiking maps to area retailers. The Map Adventures map outsells every other map I carry by probably a 3-1 margin. It's also my personal favorite.

There's actually a new book coming out next month (June) titled "Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire." The author is Marianne O'Connor and the publisher is PublishingWorks, Inc. of Exeter. It includes stories on ghosts at the different AMC Huts, at the summit weather observatory atop Mount...

Nothing too major here in Littleton, NH; we might have gotten 6" overnight. But it's still snowing fairly hard right now, so I'm guessing a few more inches are likely during the day on Wednesday.

On a bushwhack adventure along the Rosebrook Range nearly 25 years ago Steve Smith and I stumbled across several old trail signs--one a directional sign pointing toward Zealand, the other a simple sign with an arrow. I don't recall now where on the ridge we found them, but I have photos of both...

My understanding from talking to S&R officials is that this is not the first time this individual has been "rescued" from the Auto Road, and that there are definitely other issues involved that I am not at liberty to discuss. He was tracked down a couple of miles up the Auto Road, still below...

Our snow total thus far in Littleton for the past two days is up to about 12 inches and it's still snowing heavily as I write this mid-morning on Thursday. The elevation of my home is right at the 1,000-foot mark, so it's probably a safe bet to say that the higher elevations got even more snow...

We had about 5 inches of wet heavy snow fall in Littletion between 7 a.m. and noon today. I attempted to drive south to Mass. this morning but decided to turn back in Lincoln as the road conditions were very poor. There was definitely more snow the further north you went, and as I write this...

We've had no more than 4-6 inches of wind-blown snow in here in Littleton, NH. I trust there's more than that in the high country, however.

I read the book just a few weeks ago and also found it to be a great read, right up there with Into the Wild. For anyone interested in wilderness, search and rescue, and the life of a Park Service backcountry ranger, this is a "gotta read" book.