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Officially Closed But... The OTR parking lot is officially closed and not maintained in winter. However, the access road to the private home is plowed and as a consequence there is some limited parking (do NOT block the gate). I'll be climbing there tomorrow (Sat.) and will post a trail...

I'm 54 but... ... I can't resist chiming in. I usually hike Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays. The other four days I go to gym. All gym days include stretching and abdominal crunches. Three of the four gym days I'm on the treadmill for a total of 65 minutes: 5 minutes of warm-up, 45 minutes...

My two cents For what it's worth, I don't think the strength training is hurting, but I agree with the previous post that adding endurance and interval training would be useful. Years ago, I asked the top 10K racer in the area (who also holds the speed record up Monadnock - under 24 minutes!)...

Beautiful day at Monadnock. Following trails are very well broken out and covered with soft, packed snow: White Cross White Dot Red Spot Spellman Cascade Link Connecting trails from park side that have been broken by at least one hiker: Old Ski Path Harling Smith Connector If you wanted to...

If you take the center channel of the ski and gouge it out even further you'll have a deep groove running down the length of the ski. Then if you glue in an appropriate diameter wooden dowel you will have essentially created a "keel" for the ski which will minimize side slippage. And since the...

Blizzard Survival Bag I'm glad this thread was resurrected. I was interested in Tim's reference to the Blizzard Survival Bag as I was unfamiliar with this product and I usually carry a light summer down bag and bivy bag when I hike above treeline in winter (and always if I'm solo or in a...

Durability In my experience, I've had to replace one or more screws on my stabilicers after almost every hike. I'm still on my original pair of microspikes with no maintenance or repairs. Some of the regulars at Monadnock have had things break on theirs microspikes but their experience has...

Rotflmao Wow. I'm completely missed this one. I gotta call the park.

Trails reported on: White Dot: Well-broken. Packed snow. Ice in spots. White Cross: Same as White Dot. Cascade Link: Broken for most of its length. Red Spot: only a few people had been up and down it. Old Ski Path: only one person (not wearing snowshoes) had been up it In general if you were...

No question I'll join the chorus: I own both and once I tried microspikes there was no going back. I wrote a review of them on this site when they first came out http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20704 For what it's worth, popular opinion seems to agree. I hiked Monadnock...

Anybody remember when the REI annual dividends come out? I've got a pair of snowshoes that I'm dying to purchase and I'd like to put my dividend towards that.

Just a rumor I suppose there's no truth to the rumor that VFTT is installing webcams every 50 feet along every official trail in the Northeast so that none of us will ever be in doubt about conditions ever again. Another benefit is that I will never have to go hiking again: I'll just log in.

A dancin' fool Great! Mostly Swing, and West Coast Swing with a little Fox Trot, Rumba, Tango, and Waltz thrown in. And today, it's back to the mountains.

I know I'm a slow hiker, but this is ridiculous: I went up Monadnock and didn't get down until the following decade! A solo winter nighttime hike up Monadnock to end the old year and ring in the new decade. I went up the White Dot. An inch or two of light new snow had fallen around noon on...

A slight difference of opinion Dr., I agree with you entirely on the scientific consensus on GW, but have a slightly different take on Andrew Revkin's views on global warming. I don't think he's trying to fan the flames of doubt on this issue. As early as 1992 - in his first book on global...

Yeah Taz was a "character" alright. Cancer finally got her, but she was a handful while alive. Thanks for the greenie.

Taz and the porcupine Years ago my ex-wife had a Jack Russel Terrier named "Taz." Taz liked everything that went on two legs and hated everything that went on four. She was really obnoxious. Although I have had bigger house cats, Taz thought she was the size of a Saint Bernard. She had that...

Albuquerque to Phoenix Years ago, my friend Jeff and I were presenting at a scientific conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Jeff had the idea that we should ship our posters Fedex to our hotel and then fly (with our dismantled bikes) to Albuquerque, NM, reassemble our bikes in the airport, and then...

I just saw a presentation at Keene State College by two VFTT members: WOWSER and p2piper. They gave a multimedia presentation called "It's Not About the Hike" about their journey of climbing the 67 NE 4000'ers over the last 2 and 1/2 years and the lessons they learned. I found the presentation...

Thanks for the green square.