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As I noted in the Trip Reports forum, I through hiked the the Cohos Trail over the first couple weeks of July. See http://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entry/542267 for my journal and http://www.cookhimes.us/dennis/traillog/ct/ct000.htm for a picture gallery on my own site. Quick summary...

As some of you know, I through hiked the the Cohos Trail over the first couple weeks of July. Here is the first entry in my Trailjournal. Here are the pictures. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 54/115 (42/67, 11/46, 1/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39...

Several of us from the Connecticut Section of the GMC spent Memorial Day Weekend in the Whites. On Friday and Saturday some of us hiked Franconia Ridge and Carrigain/Vose Spur, and on Sunday and Monday some more of us, including myself, joined the others for a two day backpack over the Kinsmen...

No one. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 51/115 (39/67, 11/46, 1/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 40/48; NEHH 84/100 LT NB 2009 "I don't much care where [I get to] --" said Alice, "-- so long as I get somewhere," ... "Oh, you're sure to do that,"...

Last weekend I helped do trailwork with the Conn. Section of the GMC. Afterwards I hiked another section of the West River Trail. Long Trail I drove up Friday afternoon and took the secret trail into Story Spring Shelter on the Long Trail (which is also the AT there). The sun set while I was...

Several decades ago (I haven't been able to find the exact year) a section of the Appalachian Trail mostly in Cromwell and Canaan Connecticut was rerouted. The trail which was removed from the AT was renamed the Mohawk Trail, and is maintained by the CFPA. It, of course, connects to the AT at...

On Sunday the 5th I joined Early Bird for a hike up Eisenhower for her Winter New Hampshire 4000 Footer finish. It was occasionally brutal, but mostly nice. The difference was the wind. When we were out of the wind we were fine. Even when we were in the wind but it wasn't gusting we were OK...

I usually take a three day vacation in the Whites in between the solstice and the new year, and that was the plan for this year. I had originally planned on hiking Madison on Wednesday, and other peaks I need for the winter NH4K list Thursday and Friday. Weather concerns, however, caused me to...

This year I've been trying to hold on to vacation days, so I've been doing backpacks where I start late Saturday and just hike out to where I'll camp and do a big hike Sunday. Last weekend was a good example. I started out a little after noon on Carter Notch Road in Jackson and hiked out to...

So that's what the helicopter was for. I was climbing out of the notch up Wildcat A when it appeared and started flying around the notch. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 49/115 (38/67, 11/46, 0/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 39/48; NEHH 84/100...

Last weekend I did some trail work with the Conn. Section of the GMC. I also climbed Equinox Mtn., the seventh most prominent peak in New England, on Sunday. I took a half day off work Friday and drove out to the secret trail leading to Kid Gore Shelter. I arrived soon after sunset, which...

Last weekend I went up to New Hampshire for the Flags on the 48 event, where flags are flown on all 48 New Hampshire 4000ers in commemoration of the 9/11 victims. I drove up Saturday morning. On Saturday I climbed Tecumseh. That night I stayed at the Passaconaway Campground. On Sunday I led...

On Saturday at the Baxter Bash most people left in the morning, since rain was forecast throughout the day, but four of us remained, and we decided to hike up Sentinel. Besides me there were Ellen, Brian, and Cathy. I saw a number of other people on the trails and roads throughout the day as...

Last week I attended the Baxter Bash. My main hiking goal for the trip was North Brother, since I needed it for my project of redoing the NE111 in my sixties, and last year at the bash I had done the Katahdins but not NB. So on Thursday I set out to do the Coe - Brothers Loop, with Fort as an...

I've been down the Flume Slide Trail twice, once on dry rock and once on snow. I've also descended Cathedral Trail in the rain. FST definitely seemed the worse of the two. It ranks with the Saddleback Cliffs in the Dacks as one of the most difficult trails I've done. -- Cumulus NE111 in my...

Yeah, I saw lots of people with Green Mtn. Adventure Challenge shirts. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 44/115 (34/67, 10/46, 0/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 39/48; NEHH 81/100 LT NB 2009 "I don't much care where [I get to] --" said Alice, "--...

Yesterday I helped with some trail magic again, this time in Vermont. The Green Mountain Club was supplying magic all up the Long Trail, and the Connecticut Section (with help from the Worcester Section) provided it where the LT (which is also the AT there) crosses Kelly Stand Road, in between...

Once again Connecticut Valley Atheists performed trail magic on the summit of Bear Mountain in Salisbury, Connecticut, the highest point on the AT in Conn. This was last weekend, on Sunday the 17th. I was solo this year. I went up Undermountain Road to Riga Junction, where I met some hikers...

My original plan for this past weekend was Allen in the Dacks, but it was forecast to rain pretty much all weekend all over the Northeast, and I didn't care to have to ford the Opalescent after so much rain. Also, it turned out I couldn't get an early start Saturday, so I started thinking where...

Several times you wrote "Panther" where you really meant "Pyramid". -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 43/115 (33/67, 10/46, 0/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 39/48; NEHH 81/100 LT NB 2009 "I don't much care where [I get to] --" said Alice, "--...