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I too have done that route on the order of 23 years ago or so, and someone told me that was the route name back then. I think it's a thing.

The problem was an inch of rain in less than a day, with pooling under the tent. In all fairness to the tent, it wasn’t the only one that failed under those conditions. Actually, somewhere close to half the tents did. I think the solution is just to keep it clean and dry when stored and hope...

A four-year-old was at my house earlier that day, and she asked if she could pick a raspberry off a bush. She didn't want to walk on the wood chips, and she didn't really know how to twist the thing off. It was all very cute. It got me thinking about awe, and the excitement of doing something...

I rummaged around a bit in the archives, and I'm certain this has been asked, but I couldn't find the thread. I have a 2017 Big Agnes tent. Went up to Baxter last week, and in one day we received over an inch of rain. Now in all fairness, that is a lot of rain very quickly, and a number of...

I left a message with Vermont Fish & Game, and a nice lady called me back today. She thought that given where I was, it was most likely a bobcat. She said there are lynx in Vermont, but mostly in the North East Kingdom.

Oh my god, and leave at that evidence for the police? (I'm a criminal defense attorney!)

I was driving up to Subsig cabin on August 13. I had just turned off of I-91N onto Rte 302 when a long, low, charcoal gray cat ran across the road. It was quite big, twice the length of a normal house cat. Long hair, face looked just like a snow leopard's. I don't remember if it had a tail...

I bought a down 20 degree bag used from the IME basement somewhere around 1999-2000. I have to confess, I wouldn't say it's a 20 degree bag any longer, but it works for to the low-40s. I just bikepacked from Banff to Whitefish, MT, and when we returned I thought it was time to wash it. It's...

I own a Big Agnes Fly Creek tent I purchased in 2017 (currently ~$370). Perfectly okay tent, but every morning I wake up with the inside of the fly anywhere from very wet to shockingly soaked, and have to take the fly off and hang it to dry. I have slept in a Hyperlight Unbound, which handled...

Gosh, smart people who spend their lives studying how effectively or not government works versus...you. Gosh, I can't make up my mind which side is more intellectually robust. Wait, yes I can!

Why let facts get in the way of this argument?

Thank you! On p.2 of Not Without Peril, the author writes, "If he'd persevered, he would have learned that the Crystal Hill was Agiocochook, the highest point in the northeastern quarter of the North American continent. This distinction loomed large over the Indian culture of the region, and...

As someone with a Ph.D. in Political Science, I can tell you that most people who study the subject think just the opposite. The U.S. agencies are mostly quite well run but extremely competent actors. Read the article that started this, the government employees quoted struck me as quite...

I “The High Peaks region is of exceptional ecological value, made up of a diverse biogeography that extends from low-lying forests, wetlands, streams, and lakes to high-elevation mountains with alpine vegetation and boreal species,” Sally Stockwell of Maine Audubon said in a statement of...

Put “history” into two categories: A) What happened B) Its meaning When, say, southern locales put up statues of Confederate leaders after the Civil War, those statues had a meaning to the leaders at the time. Those statues were <<symbols>> imbued with meaning. Now today, the polity has to...

Hypothermia. There is something about the ridge where it rarely seems to rain lightly. Gosh, the heaviest rains I have ever seen have been up on the Presidential Ridge in the summer. Rain jacket and pants go on immediately, it pours down, then blows off. The temperature can drop dramatically...

Oh, you poor white guy! The folks who named the mountain didn't agree with you.

Four syllables. Is that any harder to pronounce than Misquamicut? Chattanooga? Ammonusuck? Connecticut? Massachusetts? Chocorua? For anyone who is interested in a truly A+ handling of the politics of changing the name of a mountain, have a listen to "Two Mountains" by The Dirtbag Diaries...

I found the thread from 2018. It's now 2023, and I can find no evidence of people hiking Mittersill. Is it still closed? Or to put it another way, are we going to be shouted at if we hike up the slopes? I am finishing the Grid on July 2 and was hoping to hike up it with a small posse to...

My friend and I went to the newly re-opened Mr. Pizza on Saturday, June 10. They had been open for four days. The menu was good, the service was good, the pizza was good, and the prices were fair. Everything was spot on. Too chilly for the back deck to be open so we sat inside. Sometimes...