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The food storage at the Carter hut was an ice cave, when I was a kid. Do they still use it? "Cold trap ice caves" operate on a similar principle. Cold air drains into the cave and keeps it cold through the summer. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/ice-caves.htm

Just some in the possession of the family. Have thought about scanning it though and making it available online. I'll give it some more thought and get back to the folks on this newgroup.

As a kid, Lowe's started at Bowman since it had been relocated there from even earlier days due to the train stop that was possible. My grandfather's trips on Adams usually started or finished from that stop. He wrote about it in a self-published book Glencliff to Gorham, which actually gets a...

"Massive" drive and "tiny" hike are so subjective. Massive drive in from the state Hwy? The combination of those two adjectives immediately suggests using a bike for that part of the approach. I just mapped it on Plot-a-Route. From a turnout off of Rte. 3 right near its intersection with the...

My one purchase, so far, from Geartrade, happened at the end of this ski season. Backcountry.com, or someone like them, was selling a pair of 22 Designs Outlaw X bindings. They were lightly used according to the write-up. I ordered them and they came without the flex plates or the slic pins that...

Similar perspective to this on Google Maps satellite view:

I think that will be our objective. If snow levels are decent will try it on skis, if not snowshoes or boots. I noticed the trail crossing the forest road in the guidebook description and wondered if that would be a possible route of ascent, instead of coming up from the Baths. Any idea where it...

One of our options might be Moat Mt. Trail past Diana's Baths to Red Ridge Trail as far up as we can, on skis. Anyone who's done this on skis care to comment? Anyone who skis backcountry and has hiked the trail have an opinion on the idea?

"Moving" to D.N. for the purpose of declaring it his residence for casting his vote. I suspect he probably won't be spending any more time there than he already does. Having D.N. keep it's mythic status as the first place to release its vote is probably too valuable a marketing tool to let slip.

I'm coming up to do Mt. Doublehead cabin for the night on Feb. 27 and will arrive the day before, for a night at the White Mt. Hostel in Conway. I've got two friends who will join me. One is a backcountry skier, like me, the other is more comfortable on less steep terrain. Since we'll be skiing...

The write-up at Recreation.gov says the cabin has a wood stove. I don't expect it will do much to keep the place that warm but the main question is how likely is it that any wood can be had in the immediate area of the cabin? I am assuming this will be much like Spruce Peak Shelter on the L.T...

I actually had one of those. It was reversible with a green on one and a white side (pretty yellow though when I had it) on the other. I've still got a couple of 10th Mt. Division rucksacks kicking around too. Used one of them on a trip from Aspen to Crested Butte via Pearl Pass in '75. Got a...

+1 on the Berwins. I've got a pair mounted on some old wooden downhill skis from the 50s that came to me by way of my grandfather. They work great. Wouldn't say I get the greatest glide on the flats with them but waxed up they move along pretty well. I use army surplus climbing skins for going...

Courtesy of MWOBS, their Happy Holiday greeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCagsLF6To&feature=youtu.be

I've found Kamik boots to be less leak-prone than Sorels which always seemed to start delaminating between the upper and the sole sometime during the second season of use. The Kamik Nation Plus has been my favored model which replaced a couple of goes with the Sorel Caribou (which had the...

No fantasies are involved, that I can tell.

Just got the sole of one half of a pair of old Merrill XC boots restitched. Still too good to throw away but not usable unless the welt could be restitched. Had asked at Limmer's about the possibility of getting it repaired there when passing through Intervale this past winter. They might be...

Found approx. 3 p.m. 9/23/18 Email me with a description: [email protected] Phil Lussier

Should be a fun bit of sleuthing.

If you look at this 1937 topo, Spider Camp is the name for the area, or something, in the vicinity of the W.R. xing which later? became Spider Bridge. The location of a structure isn't obvious but it appears to be part of the "X" marking the bench mark location. Not so obvious on the '37 topo...