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It may just be a sign of me trying to compensate for reaching my forty's and worrying about my ability to keep up the pace but during a dayhike last weekend up the Sewards and Seymour, I found myself wondering if maybe I needed the extra edge these different, drinks, bars and gels might give...

Nope, closer to Mountain Dew but i am sure thats not it.

I actually prefer Sobe adrenaline. Red Bull tastes somewhat chalky and medicinal to me. The name is such a catch phrase for the whole category though. Once or twice I have tried an energy drink with the improbable name, RockStar. It is twice the size of a Red Bull and the taste while still a...

Whoa, wait a minute I think I'm missing something. Urine test? I don't remember ever feeling that happy after having a Red Bull/Sobe.

Any pros or cons as to a Red Bull type drink on the trail. I would guess that day hikes would be more appropriate for several reasons if you use these types of drinks. I have this vision of freezing a Red Bull and then plopping it into my Platypus(carefully washed natch). I could then keep my...

Sewards and and Seymour from the trailhead as a day hike; what was I thinking? With an evening shift at work that night but the next two days free, I tossed everything i might need loosely and without sorting into a few stuffsacks and into the back seat of my car. The true loading of my pack...

Funny story about coming over the pass. I was hiking with a group from school(anybody ever hear of AMS?); about 6 or 7 of us around 15 and 16 years old and a teacher or two. We had gone in from the Upper Works and Hiked Marcy and Skylight if I remember right. Then headed out to Marcy Dam and...

OK now I know what my next trip is going to be. I have been putting of Allen for a while. Real close to my home base in the mountains so I figured I could always get around to it but enough of a bear that I never just picked it up on a free day. Somehow I thought when they removed the leantos...

Speaking of cool, did you climb down into the cavey areas at the base of some of the more accessible rocks. I have found ice down there into the early part of July.:cool: My first overnight into the Adirondacks high peaks was up Indian Pass. What a great beginning.

Allen, Allen? Isn't that on private land all or most of the way? I do remember that the Twin Brook Leanto was my favorite camping spot. Camping there I would find myself listening to the Brook babble away for the longest time before I would finally fall asleep (it was very loud).

I remember reading that he spends a lot of time familiarizing himself with the trail beforehand, after all he does hike through the night. Might have been him. I have never done that stretch of the trail but have had problems with other stretches of the trail where it crosses ski slopes at the...

Use this link to get the Map Adventures Mansfield and Camels Hump and Hunger Mountain area map. This is the Map to get, I have replaced mine three times as it has worn out. They make it now in a tear and water resistant material thank god. One of the best, laid out maps I have seen of any area...

I am not real clear on Smugglers notch state park and wether there is a campground. I know there used to be a few leanto's next to the Stowe ski resorts parking lot. They might still be there but if they are I would say it is a little too public and busy. Maybe ther are other options on the...

Call the Green Mountain Club at 802-244-7037. They are located in Waterbury, Vt just the other side of the Mountain from the trail heads we have been discussing, 4 miles off the interstate on the way to Stowe, left hand side of the road just past the Cold Hollow Cider Mill. I would have to say...

The only difference between camping next to a Canadian group of late night beer and wine drinkers having a talkfest and a similar american group is that the french language lends a subtley higher class to what is probably a lot of plain old B.S. and gossip. :)

The last use of the small village was as a Cottage Club similar to the Ausable Club it lasted that way from the late 1800's to WWII. At that time the club was encouraged to move 12 miles down the road by the National Lead Mining company which happened to own the mineral rights under that whole...

I am in moderate shape, strong legs but starting to carry around a bit of extra weight in a pot belly. Did most of the great range last year started at Ausable at dawn for variety, up the Wolfjaws and across all of the Range until I was staring at the junction for Haystack and Slant rock. I...

Some really good friction burns going from Coldens summit to the lake. Make sure you have good sticky treads. There is almost always some water trickling down the rock making patches slick. And there is a lot of ledge. Almost like taking the escalator down consistently steep. There is no...

Nothing legal going up Sunset ridge. Camping is available at the state park at the base of the trail although you will share it with familys, summer campers and Canadians. Be aware that there is a fee to park at the trailhead to Sunset Ridge because the trail starts at the State Campground. An...

That's about what I learned back in high school during the 70's. I went to school in long Lake and it seemed nowhere could be as badd. any relief was welcome. a feather in your cap or a tough piece of twig helps too. I would estimate it distracts about half of the critters. When the deerflys are...