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Altitude sickness is very, very individual, as others mention. The weather in the mountains the week of the GABF is also very, very individual. I would not plan on hiking a fourteener that week, though you may luck out. Alternatively, there are plenty of great hikes with great views on lower...

I think the instructions are vague enough, the density of people small enough, and the potential area huge enough that there won't be much of an impact, other than (hopefully not) a few people getting really lost. The NM backcountry is really empty for the most part.

There was a big story about that in the Denver Post last month. Sounds like a tremendous challenge- that's big country down there!!

Not normal but not unheard of... the storm just grazed eastern NE early to midweek last week, then bombed out and absolutely clobbered the Maritimes. The recent pattern that gave NE the 20+ inch storm has continued to a certain degree. I'm not surprised some places got 150 cm. I'm guessing this...

Yes, crawling is not fun. Only time I had to crawl to a summit, I got hypothermic later in the day. Two things though: 1. Your mileage (per hour) may vary. A few years back I was with Poison Ivy and Spencer on Katahdin's Tableland, with winds who knows, I'm guessing 45 sustained gusting to 60...

Probably 10 years ago, two friends and I skied from the Kanc to the trail (?Sawyer Pond Rd- was an old fire road as I recall) with the objectives of hitting the summer trail near the point where the Signal Ridge trail gets steeper, dropping the ski gear and switching to traditional winter gear...

West Bond toward anyplace is great, as mentioned before. One that has not yet been mentioned though for sheer distance is the view from Mt Abraham in Maine... the only place I know of where you can see Washington and Katahdin at the same time! (though from Washington you can see Marcy and the...

Congrats and enjoy... though 2 foot storms are not common, doesn't seem like any real chance of a total miss. I'd bet cash money on a foot or more most places in Southern and Central NE and perhaps up north too. Hopefully we will get more out here this weekend as well... right now it is a tough...

A lot's been said already so not that much to add, but I like Roy's and Sierra's info best. The elevation thing is incredibly variable between individuals (I would love to know when they have the genetics etc of this figured out). There is no good way to predict how you will do until you do it...

Wow, really sad. It is just amazing how fast you can get really, really cold in conditions like that. And you think you can just tough it out, until very suddenly you can't, and you might only have minutes between realizing finally that you are in trouble and losing the ability to help yourself...

This year they say it is about 62% effective, which is about average. I know plenty of people who had the vaccine and got the flu later on this year (including my 15 year old son), and plenty more that got the vaccine and, so far, are fine. All about probability. On balance, I'd rather not get...

Chocolate cheesecake. Firm enough to not disintegrate, rich enough to not freeze solid, and chocolate always wins. Or for a sort of non-cake idea, rice krispy bars/??cake made with peanut butter and chocolate. There's enough calories for a 10-mile+ day in -10 F temps! That would be like 3 trips...

Funny, my wife has always made fun of me because for more than 20 years I've always said I wanted to come back as a crow, for the same reasons. But actually, a raven would be better, as I'd be more likely to be born (and live) in a beautiful place!

Wow, that's long. But good. I'm a newbie to backcountry skiing and learning slowly, but the group I go with, most of whom are close to experts and have been doing this for 30+ years, have several rules that this group didn't seem to have: when things look sketchy, travel in groups of 4 to...

One thing I like about having moved to CO is that people who use the backcountry seem to get along with one another pretty darn well, regardless of activity (the skier-snowboarder thing notwithstanding :)). The Search and Rescue Fund is funded by licenses to hunt, fish, use off road vehicles...

I've never flown anywhere that I took Microspikes that I didn't also take poles (so I had to check something). That said, having flown into and out of DEN >50 times now, the TSA people here are quite reasonable, more than most I've met. So if you can get them in, you can likely get them back out...

Well, vigorous exercise (70% of max in this study, probably similar to what many weekend warriors put in) diverts blood flow- nutrition and oxygen and ability to self-repair- away from your gut to feed your muscles, and ibuprofen isn't the best for your gut, so your gut suffers a little damage...

I always wanted to take Route 6 from California to Provincetown or vice versa... winds up in Bishop, CA at the foot of the Sierras. If anything it might be even a bit lonelier than US 50 (not 53) as it winds through the UT and NV desert with a lot of N-S in addition to E-W. But I bet US-20 is...

Very, very well done to the rescuers, as well as to the victim who managed to get himself some help and (probably) save his own life by getting into his sleeping bag! I was watching this weather situation for a couple of days and it was very well advertised... BUT this guy was on day 3 of a 5...

I like Stan's idea. The default "fastest" way gives you too much I-90 then 80- which is expensive re: tolls, and takes you through too many metro areas, then Iowa and Nebraska which are waaay boring and tend to be windier (not great with a trailer, though less wind this time of year). Go through...