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I need someone to help us shuttle on Saturday, July 2. Short drive from Littleton up to Maidstone. If you know someone, or you are someone, who can drive one person (fully vaccinated) one way, please leave me a message below. Thanks! Brian p.s. If there is a previous thread on this, please...

I agree with "egilbe," hiking below 0 is mighty challenging in its own right. Above treeline and in a wind? I would take a pass.

I hate to say it, but I do agree that it is the correct thing to do to report the dog to the police. Firstly, if there are medical complications, you want to have a record that this stemmed from the dog bite. It will allow your health insurer to have an easier time getting reimbursed from the...

"Summits in Solidarity is a non-profit organization founded in 2020 by hikers from Wobanadenok (The White Mountains of NH). Our mission is to foster justice and equity for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) by amplifying BIPOC voices in outdoor spaces, supporting anti-oppression and...

Note that the article says "next round." The first round is ongoing in Connecticut. I am the very first human being to have been injected with the Pfizer Lyme disease vaccine! I was supposed to be Patient #4, but they moved the start of the study up a week, and I was able to schedule earlier...

REI has raised its membership fee from $20 to $30. I joined so long ago that I don’t remember what I paid.

The famous poem from the Emmons Glacier on Rainier: Into a cloud sea far below, I lonely watched the red sun go. Then turning, miracle of glad surprise, enchanted saw the full moon rise. — C. Y. Schurman

“Dents” By Charlotte Parker A hydro flask is like a person. It can start off new, clean, The perfect shape. But, if you drop it, BANG! It will dent. And sometimes, those dents, Are irreversible. A person can dent too. You can try to fill a dent, But it will never be the same. So think...

I know what they did at least once between two winter months (since a friend doing the same thing bumped into them) was to go into Baxter near the end of the month and get up all the peaks in that month. Then, they stayed there and the following day the next month started, and they went up all...

Jason Beaupre finished the New England Hundred Highest grid last weekend. First known person ever to do it. 1,200 mountains! I believe I have hiked with Jason only once. A mutual friend was finishing his Hundred Highest on Kate Sleeper. We went over the Tripyramids, and then over to Kate...

Patagonia's films are universally fantastic. If you've never seen DamNation, a film about how dams damage rivers and the life that resides in them, it is a stunning achievement. Funny, poignant, great historic footage, and you learn a ton about salmon. https://youtu.be/laTIbNVDQN8 Patagonia...

New movie forthcoming, The Sanctity of Space, featuring Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson climbing in Denali and reflecting on the work of Bradford Washburn. Trailer: https://youtu.be/0NT1vfXKy5g

There are some who might say if this movie hadn't been made, it would be no great loss, but SpencerVT, I agree with you, this was a fine movie that raises important questions for those of willing to ponder them.

There is something quite different about the new folks hiking today. "Gridding" is now a competitive sport; it's literally a race. I started hiking the grid (as opposed to just "hiking") maybe fifteen years ago, give or take, and I saw it as a lifetime goal. I took it from the perspective...

It depends if the hiker is deemed to have been negligent or not. Negligence is taking the care a reasonable person would take. Hiking in sneakers, say, with no traction, might be deemed unreasonable, as would calling for a rescue because one was lost and lacked a map, or calling for a rescue...

There's something the young man didn't say which is bothering me. When he realized he was in trouble, he reached out to Facebook. This suggests that he didn't tell anyone where he was going. I would hope that anyone on Views, hiking alone, in winter conditions, on two of the most challenging...

From this discussion, what I am seeing is that, regardless of one's device (even if it had functioned), one still needs to be able to divert from the planned route. By the young man's own description, the snow was blowing sideways, and that was not the moment to start thinking about...

People tend to tell a story in the light most favorable to them. Okay f someone is using only a phone and a map from AllTrails [say], that becomes a “map.” If he had a paper map, one suspects he would have gone down Valley Way. Since his phone had died by that point, I suspect it’s safe to...

We have to be quite cautious with that reasoning. As Peakbagger suggested, I suspect this hiker lacked a paper map and had been using his phone for navigation, so I think we can safely say that at that point, he lacked a map. I think one could say that: if one lacks a map and has no other...

On Saturday, April 9, 2022, at 1:56pm, a hiker posted the following to a Facebook group: Hello. I need help. Got blown of Madison. 802-505-xxxx [He gave his real last four digits] Needless to say, by the time a friend had sent me a screen shot of this, it already had 145 comments...