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What you need for bushwhacking beyond what you have for trail-based day hiking: nothing (given you're properly equipped for day hiking). That's the wonderful thing about it: you can start with a day hike and explore 100 yards, 200 yards off the trail to somewhere that looked interesting on some...

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Could you share the name; I can't find ethanol at all any more; used to be widely available. Best I've found recently is Klean-Strip Green @ 80% ethanol and I can't even find that locally in gallon cans; the quart cans are expensive. Klean-Strip's normal (non-green) alcohol is 60% methanol and...

Mostly methanol these days I'm afraid. Very difficult (or expensive) to find ethanol. Almost all the alcohol fuel sold at hardware stores and in hardware departments and places like Home Depot is at least half methanol and frequently 90%+. There is a "green" labelled version of alcohol at Home...

That's a very long way. I'd sit down. Maybe even lie down and take a nap.

I have never seen the source at Guyot dry. As far as filtering, a previous long-term caretaker told me he used to drink the water straight until he happened to be rummaging up in the drainage and saw all the dog poop.

The NYNJ Trail Conference has the 7th edition "revised 2005" on sale for $7.50 this month ($10 non-member) plus $7.25 shipping. My latest is the 7th edition dated 2001, which I have always thought was the final one. Does anyone happen to know if there are any changes made in the 2005 revision...

Check with a lawyer and a surveyor, but I believe camping off the North side of the trail is outside (subject to any other restrictions that may apply), but not the South.

We DON'T read about a lot of misadventures for a lot of reasons. Mostly through blind luck they run into "one of us" and get guidance away from the pending disaster or help in minimizing it. I know of at least a dozen incidents in my experience where individuals spent unscheduled nights in the...

I think that's fine and I encourage that kind of thinking. Of course most (probably) inexperienced White Mountain hikers don't think they need any stinkin' mentoring. Hundreds of people set out every year unprepared and vulnerable but the good weather holds, they don't lose the trail or notice...

Don't you think that's the point? That you are the enemy that needs to be kept outside the gate at all costs? My sense is that the argument you present works against the preservation of a bridge there. Removing the bridge will create death and injury risk because people WILL try to cross. There...

The trouble with pictures like this is that they're not real. Beautiful in their own way but so different than the actual. Reality= (usually) cold, wet, dark, claustrophobic and hemmed in by brush & blowdowns; you can never stand in just the right spot for that perfect postcard effect...

That was quite a bit upstream, I believe.

I believe it is a little N/NW of those dots. If you look at your track where it jogs a little W at a point and then back, my guess is it is just above that. I'd say you were within 30-50 yards.

I just finished a big chunk of the Mattabessett as a multi-day trip. There is virtually no water in any of the usual streams, even some I have never seen dry in 40+ years of hiking in Connecticut. If there is any interest I will post references to what water I found. This is probably not an...

Not so much. With the accesses they've already blocked, and blocked access to Thoreau already well underway, I wouldn't say these fine new East Side bridges are exactly bridges to nowhere, but they're working on it. BTW I happened to walk the East Side Trail back to the parking lot a few days...

Date of Hike: 09/21/2015 Trail Conditions: Dry, Water Crossings easy, no Downed Trees. Special Equipment Required: None Comments: Upper two Black Brook crossings dry; lower two fine. Coincidentally noticed tiny but useful pool at about 3500 feet, N44° 08' 28.0" W71° 32' 05.2" WGS84.

What better time! I may do the Twin/Bond ridge and take the Molly Route to meet them there. I want to complain about several rock crossings of various brooks in the Pemi. I believe they are unsafe and should be removed.

During the destruction of the suspension bridge there was some illegal and confusing trail construction and disguising of old trail sections done near the old bridge to try to guide people around and away from some of the trash they left at the bridge site. Looks like you might have gotten...

Your doctor is not apt to pick up a heart rhythm problem with testing. Just happens when it happens. Not usually with eye problems associated, but would otherwise fit as a possibility. I've had it happen once hiking (we're assuming that because I have also had the problem on two other occasions...