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Alright. OK. You win. A sense of humor always gets to me. The world needs more of that. I sent you an email. Burn before reading.

Hey, no more secrets! Even higher up than that there is a wonderful site to the left, going down, not too far down from the wall. It does not have the telltale path (so wonderfully marked for us by the artificial brushing in) but on one one trip years ago I could see the terrain opening up deep...

This was a mission.

The more public these sites become, the more likely they are to be overrun with toilet paper and otherwise trashed. That's one reason, in addition to the normal selfishness, that nobody shares. I would make the general comments that the low portion of the trail has large flat open areas where...

Absolutely. All part of the overall management plan. No one would put up such a sign just as a ploy to kill a particular legal campsite, must have been part of a big picture management plan. In any case the signs are gone so the revegetation was, apparently, remarkably successful.

Nor am I, and I have read everything there is, multiple times, and discussed the rules with experienced Whites hikers and officials. There is disagreement; different interpretations. I am not an expert. My quite possibly faulty understanding is that the Franconia Ridge Trail is outside the...

Well reasoned and well stated, though wrong. And you are one of the bright ones who do research. Imagine the difficulties average hikers have in figuring all this out! Thus the need to bring a lawyer and surveyor along with you if you want to sleep in the Whites. A couple of the sites the OP...

But I recall there are some decent spots off the Twinway, both N-S and as it swings E (though quite a ways E), that would seem to offer some opportunity for the OP. There are spots off the Bondcliff Trail 200 feet in, though they are harder to find and the problem is you're usually looking while...

I can't remember where I got this definition of the Pemi boundary, and can't claim it's definitive. * 66 feet from Osseo, Franconia Ridge, Garfield Ridge Trails * 100 feet outside Galehead Hut permit area * 66 feet from Twinway to Bondcliff Trail * 33 feet from Bondcliff Trail to point 100 feet...

Every once in a great while, in the midst of the vast wasteland of nonsense that is the internet, you run across a bit of comment that makes sense. Thanks.

A group may have been pinned down on North Lafayette for several hours Sunday afternoon/evening by high wind, low visibility, dropping temps, thunder & lightning and hail. Not quite clear: a group was observed off trail around 3:30 pm, huddled in the rocks about 80 yards off trail, then a...

They asked me nicely today to stop while three workers tried to pull out a stump. After 5 minutes of turnbuckling and chopping a group of three bicyclists came along and we were immediately allowed pass. Maybe they just decided the stump won. I'm sure this huge erosion problem has been...

Your point is valid because of its role as a primary access; however, I don't believe the (formerly part of the Wilderness Trail) now-named Lincoln Woods Trail is wilderness.

I've done it several times at various levels of fitness, and age, with no strain that I can remember, and I am a slow hiker. I do carry a very light pack though.

Forest Service: "We will not encourage anyone to ford the river or travel off trail. If they choose to do so it is of their own volition" Wink/nod. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Great advice: don't camp up there. The ONLY sensible advice to first timers or the relatively inexperienced. And, maybe it would be better if no one questioned it at all, publicly; just let veterans camp up there to their hearts' content and tell everybody else not to. There are legitimate...

The Pemi crossing at the East Side Road tent sites (and across the wet area and "island") should be looked at. I realize water flow is up, but this has always been an easy crossing and worth considering. Some years ago it could be done boulder hopping but they shifted. The Old Osseo Trail was...

I cowboy camp most all the time with a large groundsheet treated around the edges top & bottom with permethrin. A tiny bug bivy and a Cuben fiber tarp would work, but the perfect shelter for the Canyon is probably the Tarptent Sublite. Light, breezy, and plenty water-secure enough for the brief...

I wonder if a North Korean missile could reach the peak? Would be a shame to lose the observatory though.

There's a nice loop from the restaurant parking lot: a blazed path paralleling Rt. 66 to join the Mattabassett Trail on up to Preston Notch, then down woods roads to an old reservoir (nice lunch spot on the cliffs at its head) then a path through the woods to the big reservoir, finally a minor...