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Welcome helmethiker. I’ve been wearing a helmet non-stop year long since sustaining a pretty serious head injury a few years back while hiking a summer-like Great Range Traverse in the Adirondacks. Fell. Hit my head. Knocked myself unconscious. Still have memory loss about the event. Took a few...

I missed the (appearing so) in your reply. :-) Yes, they kind of do appear so from a distance.

They have been using plastic in the WMNF.

As far as I know there were never "turn around or you will die signs" on Caps Ridge, and the Forest Protection sign is relatively new. Some idiotic chucklehead did put a "Da Caps" sign up a few years ago that had to be removed. Below treeline I don't think you need blazes, it's pretty straight...

I travel to the UK every few months and have been in several Mountain Warehouse stores. Nothing fancy - mostly own brand (or other brand) mid to low level clothing and items. Despite numerous trips (can’t turn down a stop to a gear shop) not once have I been tempted buy anything in there...

We made it about 15 minutes on this one and bailed. Her accomplishments are great but her self absorbed personality was annoying.

I like what that author wrote about celebrating the youngest, but not the 12 year old who put away the video games and did their first hike or finished a list. The ones though that drive me the most crazy are the celebrations of speed and repetition. Maybe because I’ll never have it, but who...

I still have a synthetic fill winter jacket I bought from EMS in Nashua about 20 years ago. Still going strong. I wear it as my main winter coat now. I’ve cycled through numerous replacements that were used sparingly during winter hikes. They were the experts back then. I can’t remember the last...

Well done sir. You forgot Option 3 though. Field amputation, building a prosthetic leg out of twigs and twine, and finishing as planned.

If I remember correctly, the story was chosen because the story had a personal impact to him - he had been up there around the same time and had an experience where he felt he put himself at risk hiking with a couple of strangers. The story about Kate was done so soon because he used the...

We did OJI the day they opened the reroute. We were doing some reconnaissance for winter and had been staying in the park. We started up and soon were extremely confused. The trail was obvious but didn’t match our planning or map, but we knew we started at the right trailhead and were in the...

I’ve probably added solo to a post discretion or two but mostly because I was known for group hikes and was just trying to differentiate the fact that instead of being a bunch of random folk with me I just met a bunch of random folk along the way. I have noticed more people adding it though and...

Yes. A legend in your own mind. Not solo if with a dog. Just saying. :)

It was one of the uglier sites, but the information was top notch and invaluable.

Trying to post the picture here.

I’ve been known to wreck a snowshoe or two and have been in search of the holy grail for years. Since I’ve gone through everyone else I figured I’d give TSL a try. Same result disappointment. Some background. I’m not a small guy. I may look small from a distance but I’m not. One winter I went...

I went up to Scar Ridge today from the Discovery Trail lot on Route 112 - if anyone heads up there before the next storm let me know if you find a ziplock bag with a pair of liner gloves, lightweight shell mittens, a hat, a head band, and a neck warmer somewhere along the way. The outside bag...

It happened at a kayak race in CT. He was about 1/2 mile from the finish when he collapsed and capsized. I was three boats behind him. The two closest to him pulled him from his boat and then four or five us took turns providing CPR near the shore until the rescue boat could get to us and...

Interesting way of putting it...

This was from yesterday and now with Tim's update about the herd path we may be able to park but not be able to hike. This whole thing is as clear as mud.