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Some say that's the real reasoning behind the bridge removals. Selfishly, I would be down with that. Hell, don't just tear down the bridges, tear down the trails as well. Trails to me are just easy ways of getting from one general area I'm going to explore to another. Stop trail maintenance...

The "hiking public" referred to are largely dead, but to me it's still the Wilderness Trail. One of the very few times I've been proud of my adult-lifetime membership in the AMC is when they resisted the name change. For a little while.

These little people make their own laws in their little kingdoms. Thanks for my laugh of the evening. I have quite a mess to clean up on my keyboard, but small price to pay for such a laugh.

The popular new campsite they created on the north/west bank of the removed bridge contributes its own blight to the area. All in all a job well done. If your job is screwing up. Hey, let's do it again!

Less than "too high" according to the report. Do try to keep up with this technical terminology, if you hope to understand the brilliant! intellect of these bridge removers.

I'm happy to clear up that confusion for you. Fording the river is safer than crossing the bridge.

The huts are water-tested occasionally and when they fail I assume they have to put heavy chlorine in for awhile. A couple of times when (if memory serves) Galehead Hut failed they put out treated water in jugs. The huts are not exactly Five star resorts or pristine back county conditions. Lots...

Updated AT to STT Information Uploaded July 2015 Attached is a plain text file description reflecting various changes and additional information to the Route through July 8, 2015 a gps track zipped, and an overall map view.

You can make a pretty good guess from the boundary description as to where the legal corridor is between the trail and the Wilderness border, and it would be a harsh Ranger indeed who would fine you and/or force a move if you're off by a few feet. BTW it is only MAINSTREAM thought that there is...

You seem to be implying that the Pemi Wilderness includes the trails surrounding it. I don't have my maps & notes at hand here, but generally that is NOT the case.

You are a gentleman. I hope to come back in some future life as a gentleman so I won't call quite as many people asshats.

2014 Revisions I have revisited this area a couple of times in recent months. Very nice in the Fall. Vegetation growth has changed some things about my "NW Passage" from the Appalachian Trail across to the South Taconic Trail. The initial short entry to my route from the AT has seen...

There is also a drinking fountain out on the point, right on the path. Hard to miss if you're looking for it (sticks 3-4 feet up), but nobody sees it because it's so impossible the mind I think just rejects it.

I would say not to, too. Here's what people who have done it (Rim to River and back) tell me: 1. They didn't enjoy it and wouldn't do it again. 2. Symptoms: light-headedness, nausea, headaches. And again, people have died doing it. Those who made it tend to shrug off the symptoms but I've...

Grand Canyon: trail runners fine. 2L not nearly enough, but always water at Indian Garden and the BA Trailhead. Water stops at 1.5 and 3.0 down from trailhead PROBABLY still on for this coming weekend but need to be checked last minute, usually shut off for the winter some time between...

I understand it's pretty easy to get a filming permit if the government approves of your message or the purpose of the commercial product. Obviously nothing critical of the government or otherwise subversive, in the opinion of the government official deciding whether or not to allow you a permit...

That's disappointing. Just before Irene the shelter was solid, in great shape even though supposedly not having been maintained for awhile. Was always nice to know it was there if needed.

By the standards of 92.74% of the bureaucrats in the world, backpacking itself = negligent.

I don't mind all the dogs on top of Lafayette. It's that they're all yowling into their cell phones that makes me rush on by.

Thanks. That one has always seemed to be a drastic detour from the trip; not sure why, this is subjective. Of course a lot depends on timing; the Jewell Trail seems to come up nobo just a little earlier than I'm ready to stop for the day. The Sphinx I don't think I've ever done so I will take a...