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Back in December 2015 I tried to climb Madison, which I needed for the Winter NH4K list. I turned around above the treeline but short of the summit that time. Last Friday I tried again and made it this time. I lucked out in planning this; I had picked the date well in advance, and the weather...

There's also a 45th parallel sign on the Long Trail: http://www.cookhimes.us/dennis/traillog/lt/lt142.htm -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 72/115 (50/67, 20/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 40/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009; CT NB 2017 "I don't...

Last weekend I joined the Connecticut Section of the GMC for a trail work weekend on the Long Trail / Appalachian Trail based at Story Spring Shelter. The section maintains the trail between Glastenbury Tower and Kelly Stand Road and this trip we were working on the northern half of that. I...

Last Monday, the 9th, I climbed Avery and West Peaks of Bigelow in Maine. I had climbed these before in 2010 at the end of a seven day backpack (finishing my NE4Ks on Avery). This year's hike was a dayhike up and down Firewardens Trail. The day was a great one for hiking. There was no rain...

Last Sunday I hiked the Macedonia Brook State Park Blue Loop, in Kent, Connecticut. This was a Ct. Section of the GMC hike. There was only other hiker besides me in our group, but at the trailhead we met a group of 19 (if I counted right) hikers who were doing the loop in the opposite...

Meadowsweet and I spent the tail end of the year in Gorham. On Sunday the 30th I climbed Moriah. On Monday the 31st we both hiked out to Cherry Pond. Sunday: Moriah I hiked Moriah by the Carter-Moriah Trail. The trail was hard packed snow; I was on microspikes the whole way. It wasn't very...

Last weekend (28-30 Sept.) I joined another trail work weekend with the Connecticut Section of the Green Mountain Club. We maintain the Long Trail in between Glastenbury Tower and Kelly Stand Road. (The LT is also the AT there.) This time we were based at Story Spring Shelter. The weather...

I've done these trails a couple times, but never as a day loop; both times it was the beginning and end of a backpack. I've always thought of Rainbow Trail, and the spur it goes over, as being south of Carter Dome, not east. Looking it at the map, though, I see it's southeast. -- Cumulus...

On Saturday I, together with JohnGalt and Maureen (who doesn't yet have a trail name) hiked the entire Natchaug Trail in eastern Connecticut, north to south. This is an 18.1, 18.7, or 19.2 mile trail (depending on which source you believe), together with a 0.4 or 0.6 approach on the Nipmuck...

Saturday 8 Sept. - Middle Tripryamid For the tenth year in a row I helped raise the flag on Middle Tripyramid for Flags on the 48, and event which commemorates the victims of the theocratic attacks of September 11, 2001. For the first time in those ten years, though, I was not the crew leader...

On Sunday July 29nd my girlfriend Maure, whose trail name is now Meadowsweet, and I climbed Hale by the Hale Brook Trail. The weather was great, warm but not humid. Neither of us needed bug spray the whole hike (or, indeed the whole weekend). This was Meadowsweet's first 4000 footer. It was...

On Sunday the 22nd Connecticut Valley Atheists held its annual trail magic day on the summit of Bear Mountain in Salisbury, the highest point on the AT in Connecticut. Trail angel Richard joined me this year. The most exciting part of the trip was on the drive up, where we saw a car flip over...

My girlfriend Maure and I spent last weekend camping at Macedonia Brook State Park in Kent. On Saturday she and I did a 2.5 mile loop east of the brook (Blue to Green to Orange Trails), and then I soloed the Blue Trail, which is a six mile loop around the park, including Cobble Mountain. Our...

Last Sunday I did an eight mile loop hike in Pisgah State Park in southwestern New Hampshire, starting and ending at the Kilburn Road Trailhead. I did the hike on a couple of inches of new snow. It was raining for about the first hour, and dripping from the trees after that. There was an...

On Sunday the 14th Maure and I hiked to Hermit's Cave in Erving, Mass., mostly on the MM Trail. The hardest part of the hike was maybe finding the trailhead. We went to the wrong one at first, thinking that the trailhead for the MM Trail north of Rte. 2 was on Rte. 2, and then had a flat tire...

Over the holidays I spent three days hiking in the Whites. I've done this most years for quite a while now, but this time was different for two reasons. One is that I didn't summit any peaks (due to a wind chill forecast of below -20F). The other is that my girlfriend Maure was with me...

On the 19th of November I almost climbed Camel's Hump. On the drive up to the trailhead it rained most of the time, sometimes heavily, but, as I had hoped, when I gained elevation it turned to snow. It was snowing lightly when I started off on Forest City Trail and continued to snow lightly...

Last weekend was another trail work weekend for the Connecticut Section of the Green Mountain Club. I hiked up Friday night, trail worked on Saturday, and on Sunday drove north to climb Mendon Peak. The Conn. Section of the GMC is responsible for maintaining the Long Trail in between...

Several years ago I hiked the Narragansett Trail. My favorite part was where it passes by Long Pond in Rhode Island. Yesterday (the 8th) I led a GMC hike mostly on the Narragansett in that area. With me were Mandy and Sarah. It was cloudy all day, which was good because I forgot my hat. It...

Every year flags are flown on each of the New Hampshire 4000 Footers in commemoration of the 9/11 victims. This year it happened on Saturday the Ninth. For the ninth straight year I headed the crew raising the flag on Middle Tripyramid. On Sunday I climbed the Osceolas. The weather was very...