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I love my R-1 hoodie. It's long and tucks deep below the waist, so I don't get plumber's crack. Fantastic in cold weather. One of the few hoods I have ever been able to tolerate.

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So the AMC hut croo do not do work on the immediate areas about them? I was under the impression the staff at each location had to maintain trails in their given areas. Yes, those environmentalists are awful!

My iWatch 2 finally died, and I bought an Ultra a month or two back. I have to say, I love it! The best part, for me, is the larger watch face. In day-to-day use, I like the always-on watch face, and I find it easier to read text messages. Part of it, I guess, is that everything works as it...

I love the fact that you think a map and compass course costs $230. I also respectfully disagree that people voluntarily take courses without being prodded to do so, usually by a friend. I'm organizing a WFA course this weekend. My hiking partners are taking it because I personally invited...

We've gone off-topic of the original post, but today's hikers don't use maps, they use their cellphones and follow a route from AllTrails. I don't want to be the old guy saying how much better times were before cellphones, but it's not just that we have lost the craft of using a map and...

As of November 22, 2022, on Facebook they are saying that if one uses the code "LITTLE TREAT", there is free shipping.

I forgot to mention. If you like Buried, Fitz Cahill of the Dirtbag Diaries has a quite interesting interview with the two directors at: https://dcs.megaphone.fm/DTT9411638177.mp3?key=8a2d2f6ba77cb23c5962eb05a05634f0 Brian

"Buried" has just been released by The Dirtbag Diaries. https://vimeo.com/762736662/71a81aea0d It tells the story of the 1982 Alpine Resort avalanche. I haven't witnessed a story this gripping in ages! For those interested in avalanches, I highly recommend. Brian p.s. The movie is...

Thank you for all the work you put into the site, and all the best with the next chapters of your life! Brian

Press release of October 19, 2022 # # # Effective 10/20/2022, all Katahdin and Traveler Loop Trails will be closed at the trailhead for the season. Many of the trails within the park have sustained major damage during the recent storms, and continued recreation on our alpine peaks poses a...

Backpacked on the AT near Great Barrington, MA. Both my hiking partner and I ended up with a tick each.

I was backpacking on the AT in Mass and on Saturday afternoon, we just hiked over a bog bridge in a large marsh and found a fish on the trail! The nearest stream was fifty feet away, and easily a foot and a half below us by that point. This was near Great Barrington, which got the rain...

An op-ed in the New York Times by Tom Brokaw. Yvon Chouinard still possesses, in the proud parlance of the climbing community, the “dirtbag” sensibility. In the 1960s, he lived to climb and made do selling handmade climbing gear so he could devote himself to the mountains. Even today, at the...

Good luck to you! Bring a water filter, and fill up at Gailhead Hut, and then again at the stream below Bondcliff, and you'll be fine.

Yvon Chouinard was my hero before. But now? Words cannot describe my admiration for him! One can engage in capitalism and the markets and be a good person at the same time. If anyone doubted that, Chouinard is living proof of it. He gave away a company that made over $100m a year in...

Little six minute movie, "One Last Trip for Man's Best Friend," about an aging bird dog who is brought back to the home of when he was a puppy to run through the fields and chase grouse one last time...

For the last three days I took some time to get outdoors and backpack a Pemi Loop, up in the White Mountains. Going counterclockwise, I traversed the Bonds, Guyot, the Twins, Garfield, and Franconia Ridge. It was lovely! Like visiting an old friend, where you pick up right where you left off...

I completely agree. Absolutely no need to carry bear spray whatsoever. Brian

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