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I would echo the fondness expressed above for Pierce, Greylock and Washington. Hard to pick a favorite, but I really enjoyed the views four years ago on the summer solstice at Eisenhower. Waumbek exceeded my expectations, with great views near the summit at Starr King, with a beautiful hike for...

Depends on what you mean by "close." At its northernmost point, where the road takes a sharp right, ascending, in a steep section, around 2865' elevation, was what appeared to be the closest approach to Thompson Brook when I hiked it August 2015. You could hear the brook fairly nearby, but I...

You're not saying it's unfortunate that the ADA requires state facilities such as BSP reasonably to accommodate individuals with disabilities, I'm sure, peakbagger. I agree if you mean that it's unfortunate that ADA and regs issued pursuant to it might allow some to game the system for access by...

I expect more charm than pressure. Yes, the slope can be slippery. Little in life is perfect, and the administration of the laws is far from so. Special cases get special treatment, and that can be a bad thing, but not always.

With respect, JaB, how do you definitively know Cole is not a service animal, certified? A read through this thread suggests he is.

Hear hear! I think she might have charmed, begged and won over BSP officials for an exception, insofar as Cole may be a service dog, but not one whose services she requires for a disability. All I'm saying is it's clear BSP let her and him in, so tough cookies to those who disagree - it's BSP's...

For all we know, she could be epileptic or type I diabetic and he is trained to detect or assist. She's not said so, that I know of, but that doesn't mean it's not the case.

My read on that is that Governor Baxter was a politician, and politicians respond to people. I think if he met Alton, he very well might've given her the key to the park and hiked with her, if he could keep up.

That could be true, but I'm disinclined conclusively to draw that inference on the evidence presented. Were I to talk with Alton face to face about it, I might better be able to assess. Something tells me Gov. Baxter himself, presented with the force of nature that she be, would let her bring...

That's my feeling. A fool's errand. That summit cone's already burdened enough.

So do you think this hotel is going to be built, pb? If so, odds on how many years before it goes up in flames, like so many of its New England mountaintop predecessors?

Are you suggesting Baxter's rangers didn't allow Cole into the park and that he was illegally brought in, without their approval? Are you suggesting that Alton is lying when she says, more or less, that she begged and pleaded for Cole to be let in, and BSP relented? Her story seems pretty...

Some of us may have built up some immunity or resistance, as well. I grew up by a lake down south and swam, played in and drank from a it and a wet weather stream on our property which fed it all the time as a kid. I've always drunk from running brooks in the mountains without filtering or...

Def looks like an option. Thanks, skiguy. My friend may only want to hit K and Mendon. To be determined. ...

Thanks, Cumulus. Your first Kinsman Pond photo is a beauty.

Thanks, jniehof. I did Killington June 2013 via ski trails from the resort base. Steep, and not as pretty as a woods trail, but loved the views. Could see as far as Washington and well into the Daks. Did Pico couple months before that via Sherborne Pass Trail and ski trails up from where SP...

Thanks, Sherby. How rough a go was it? The Long Trail Google Map at Postholer.com suggest there's an old road cut which runs from the AT area past LK most of the way to Mendon. I understand that such old paths grow back in fast in the wetness of the higher Greens, and I'm aware that the standard...

Is the 1.5-ish mile bushwhack over Little Killington to Mendon so bad that no one ever does it? Or does a Long Trail/Ski Trails approach over Killington to Mendon work? Or point-to-point, base of K ski resort to Mendon to Bucklin Trailhead traverse?

Who issues the patch for this list? I'm a long way off, just bagged Kearsarge for #13, but am curious.

On the other hand, in the mid-60s, my mother's Denver-based church group, which had successfully summited Longs Peak without incident two years before, got caught in an unexpected blizzard high in the Boulder Field on its north slopes. They had to huddle together in a snow cave until the storm...