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Thanks for the green square.

Thanks for the green square.

Long ago Many, many, many years ago (I think I was 18) my girlfriend and I were playing tennis on a hot June day. We were hot and sweaty when we finished and decided to hike up to a mountaintop pond we knew of and go skinny dipping. This pond is on the same ridge that has the South Taconic...

I'm out here in Seattle for a little bit and they have a some weather issues that we don't often get in our NE mountains: extended warm rains falling on heavy snow pack. The result is tremendous flooding and avalanches. All passes through the Cascades are closed and even highways and roads in...

... can't hear a word they're saying... :) Actually the reason that they're saying it is because during this recent cold snap I've been walking around without a jacket. I'm just trying to jump start my acclimatization for the winter hiking season. These same people who think I'm crazy now...

Chicken Toes I have it on pretty good authority that the stuff in question is sillimanite.

Dear Amy, Thanks for the "greenies." - Steve

Thanks for the "greenies." - Steve

Thanks for the "greenies." As to carrying a weapon, lol, no ... but Dave - the head patrol ranger does - and yes a few jokes were made at certain points that I think I'll keep to myself. - Steve

Clarification Well thanks for your thanks. I hasten to make clear one thing, however: I'm a volunteer not a paid ranger. I don't want anyone to think I'm posting as anything other than a private citizen.... certainly my views are only my own and not those of the Park, the State of NH, etc...

On Sunday (10/13/08), Mount Monadnock was a zoo. The combination of the holiday weekend, fall foliage near peak, and beautiful weather brought people out in droves. One of the rangers told me that he thought the number of visitors was the highest that the mountain had seen in the last ten...

Animals at Play Interesting thread. I got my degree in the study of animal behavior. In graduate school they love to drum into your heads the impossibility of really knowing what another species is thinking or feeling (although the attempts to teach apes sign language or a computer...

I hiked a section of the Monadnock Sunapee Greenway today and came across this: Okay, I'll admit this was at a road crossing, but there was NOTHING else around except for the trail. Makes me wonder if the Obama campaign has a staffer whose sole job is to get out the Monadnock Sunapee...

I did see a loon come up from a dive, with a fish in its mouth, while I was there today. - Steve

What a pretty hike this was. (Mt. Monadnock in the background with Skatutakee [left] and Thumb [right] in the foreground. I believe the water is Lake Nubanusit.) I'd never been here before but read about it in Adamowicz's Hiking the Monadnock Region and also on NH Mountain Hiking. I...

One more thing... I should also mention that since I posted my TR, I heard from dozens of people who live with various sorts of heart arrhythmias. Among them are some very serious hikers and even a sub-three-hour marathoner. Life's not over. - Steve

Well, I wasn't going to write until I had more experience, but you asked... Here's what's happened so far: while I was still in the ER, they shocked me once with 12 joules (not very much) and my heart went right back into sinus rhythm. I am now on an aspirin a day diet and a beta-blocker...

Well immersion foot by any other name is still a bummer. I wish you all the best for a speedy and complete recovery. - Steve (MonadnockVol)

Thanks to all I just wanted to thank everyone for the many private and public well wishes that I have received. It was a scary experience and your support has meant a lot. I have always felt that VFTT is not just a forum for exchanging trail and gear info, but is a real on-line community even...

Yesterday morning I set out to do a 10 mile out-and-back on the Monadnock-Sunapee-Greenway. This morning I woke up in the emergency room of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hosptial in Keene. What a difference a day makes. The hike started in Pillsbury State Park. I took the Bear Pond Trail out past...