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Wow. Poor guy. Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, as it were. Still have not seen one, would love to, from a distance.

Don't really need a 14er, and June is a bit early for some (though there is so little snow right now you could walk up most of them!!!), but closest/easiest would be Bierstadt, Grays and/or Torreys, and Quandary (near Breckenridge). Evans and Pikes Peak also, though there is a road to the top...

Except for a very weird amendment to the state constitution passed in 1992 called the "Taxpayer's Bill of Rights" that stipulates, among other things, that the state cannot keep a windfall. It must return tax revenue over a certain amount each year to taxpayers. So in lean years, they must cut...

Born and bred in southern New England, moved from the Worcester area in 2010, now a Coloradan x 7 years. Who knows if and when we'll move back but I do miss it some! Have to say that my biggest adjustment was coping with the traffic when we arrived. Unless you have chronic lung disease, hiking <...

Spent one unplanned night out, with my wife (who is luckily still married to me), but it kind of has an asterisk as we had already planned to spend two nights out, just not three. We were in the Sierras and encountered way too deep snow + deep stream crossings on the summer solstice, causing...

Love that. Never heard of that before. "So, why are you just sitting in the middle of the trail?" "It got dark." You could have all kinds of fun with that one. :D

All good points. Every time someone gives me a headlamp for a present (they are cheap and make good gifts and many family members don't hike, so I've found one in my stocking on numerous occasions), I put it in a box. I probably have about 10, and so on any given hike I'll have at least 2. Just...

Wow, glad I and my dogs are further West... the coyotes here are only 2/3 the size, though more common. Would not trust even my big dog (a small female Irish Wolfhound) around those eastern guys.

Ja, und zen you und Helmut could share a couple of biers und ein wienerschnitzel at ze top. :) :)

Amicus, great to hear from you and hope you're doing well! My Arm experience was with a full big pack, after the Notch in which my sleeping pad and bag somehow exited my pack and tried to make their way to the bottomless abyss. Big pain in the butt, and insanely taxing, but being wet it was much...

What PB said. April is tough climatologically- even in the Southwest it's one of the cloudiest months of the year.

Yup. Only time in my life I've ever been really, truly hypothermic was July 20th (I forget the year but it was 2000 +/- 3 years) in the northern Presis. Sleeting, 34 F, winds gusting to 80, so making very slow progress with my big sail, er, pack, and (since it was July) I had no layers for my...

Yup, exactly our experience... traveling from CO to central NE was a breeze, and the eclipse was amazing, but trying to get to Chicago for the next leg of our trip took 12+ hours when it should have taken 8. Rural interstates are only 2 lanes in each direction, and one fender-bender there can...

Love that Flume-Liberty duo. In fact on a winter backpack a long time ago, I encountered my first ever "don't step wrong or you'll fall a LONG way" situation where there was a 10 yard stretch going S->N on a deep but stable cornice right at the summit of Flume (I think?!?). Single file snowshoe...

West Bond. The feeling of being suspended over a vast world of green, with few signs of civilization visible (OK, it was hazy), was incredible. The fact that it's at the end of a spur makes the magic even better. Out here in CO haven't found a favorite yet, they're all good, but none as green.

Oldest known starter who also finished... My inlaws, when they lived in South Glens Falls, lived next door to a guy who started his Adirondack 46 at about 75 and finished a few years later. I went on a couple local hikes with him when he was about 82 and I was about 42 and we hiked at about the...

Absolutely a success... stinks that it rained on him on the way out, but for sure a success story. I've spent an unplanned night out due to Spring conditions out West, and part of another where we hunkered down for a couple hours to rest and walked out late at night under headlamps. Comes with...

As long as my iphone is on and has power, I can tell from my home whether it's in my office at work or the office across the hall (maybe 100 ft away). Pretty amazing.

OK, so what I wrote below I wrote before searching for "Mt Mansfield" threads... and saw the one you're talking about. History repeats itself.... anyway, read on if you're interested for our experience... That was my party, about 8-9 years ago. Quite an adventure! IIRC there were about 8 or 9...

And what struck me about Oregon and southern WA a couple summers ago is that the backcountry is very, very, VERY empty, save for a very few tourist spots (Mt Hood, Crater Lake, a few waterfalls). And the mountain roads, though paved, are not always in good shape. St Helens reminded me of "the...