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Human induced global warming is an inconvenient truth. There is no denying it. If folks have not read it, Greta Thunberg’s book, The Climate Book, is phenomenal. Little bite sized chapters, 2-4 pages, on one specific topic, written by the world’s leading scientists in plain English. If you...

Would you please be so kind as to cite a source?

Hopefully you can see the image Brian

I was looking at a map and realized there's a stretch of trail right smack dab in Franconia Notch I have never been on, and part of it is the AT! If anyone is around on Monday December 9 and feels so inclined: I propose we park one car at Flume Gorge and the other at the Basin, and do a loop up...

We went up on November 9, 2024. It had snowed the previous night / that morning lightly up high. There was an SUV at Pine Link when we arrived, and then a young woman already wearing a backpack pulled in. When I asked why she was already wearing her backpack, she said she drove to the wrong...

Thank you for this! It rained Thursday morning, and we are heading up Saturday. Hopefully things dry out Thursday afternoon and we will have dry rocks and trails. Brian

By some odd happenstance, the movie was showing in my hometown last weekend, and I was able to watch it on the big screen. Really wonderful movie! Very well done. It's a dramatic account, but not sensationalized. The whole thing feels authentic from start to finish. Without giving anything...

I have searched the threads to see if there is an existing one, but they all seem tangential. Some friends and I are hoping to do Mt. Madison next weekend as a loop via Pine Link and Howker Ridge Trails. Is there any reason to go up one and down the other? I am recovering from a little...

Photo from earlier this week, taken from a newspaper. I live in Middletown, which abuts Lamentatiion, and the transformation from the spring and most of the summer is stunning. The duck ponds that typically dried up in the summer remained all summer long, and only now are gone or almost so...

On that note, if anyone here has not read Jack London's "To Build a Fire," it is absolutely worth your time to do so. A masterpiece! Brian

The complex relationships dogs have with their humans can be so remarkable! Brian https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/us-news/missing-hiker-72-found-near-her-dead-husbands-body-in-maine-woods-survived-after-dog-slept-on-her-chest/?dicbo=v2-QO818ww

A bit afield of our normal topics, but... Brian From another posting: Entabeni Systems, owners of Indy Pass, has purchased Black Mountain in New Hampshire from the Fichera family and plans to then turn Black Mountain into a community-owned co-op starting next year. Indy Pass' Managing...

Press release: # # # Update 10/11: Mount Washington State Park remains closed today due to ongoing winter conditions. No services are available. This morning, the summit is currently at 25 F with winds out of the north at 65-75 mph. Wind chill value is 3 F. The Auto Road and Cog Railway are...

There's nothing wrong with what the AMC does. Every time the AMC comes up, one certain anonymous individual who doesn't post his photo or use his real name feels the need to grind his axe and ruin the the experience of those reading the thread. There are thousands of people hiking, and yet...

I would encourage people to read the history found in the link in NHChris's original post. It's quite interesting! The one thing is that they moved the tree in the forefront from the left to the right. If they had kept it there, it would feel much more like the older versions. Brian

According to the link, it was drawn by hand. Seems to be based off the metal badge shown in the history.

The original logo? Good sir, read the link posted above. There have been quite a few logos over the years.

No, a surveyor in 1859. A general later on.

I have posted this before. It's a Dirtbag Diary episode on the politics of changing mountain names. Simply brilliant! Nuanced, great story telling. Absolutely worth the listen. "Two Mountains" https://dirtbagdiaries.com/two-mountains/

Choices I go to the mountain side of the house to cut saplings, and clear a view to snow on the mountain. But when I look up, saw in hand, I see a next clutched in the uppermost branches. I don't cut that one. I don't cut the others either. Suddenly, in every tree, an unseen nest where a...