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They are taking on a major relocation project next year, as well. https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/whitemountain/?project=66490

Someone is in the process of cutting a trail from the climbers camp around 2350ft towards the cliffs of the Captain. There's always been a bit of a herd path but now some serious trail clearing is going on. Probably started in earnest this year or last. It ended abruptly at a point that made...

Love this. I've been up to the pond a few times and never taken the same route. Up the east col and down the west col, up the slide past the climbers camp and down the herd path, up the climbers trail and down a real garbage line. Always an adventure. The west col might be my favorite. The flume...

I love both of my Sven Saws.

Accurate.

The caretaker platform is wood and there is a privvy.

I think they can make exceptions where access and safety are concerned. The Dry River bridge has had a lot of work done on it and I feel like this isn't the first Madison Gulf replacement. How they get around things for 13 Falls is still beyond me.

Old news, it seems. In November they closed the Madison Gulf/AT bridge for repair. This seems the only bridge on the forest the USFS has any interest in maintaining. Certainly the only one in Wilderness. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/whitemountain/notices/?cid=FSEPRD1215593

I don't do any tracking and only have the screen as bright as needed. With Bluetooth on running a speaker in camp all evening and my headphones overnight, I was at 38% when I got back to my truck after a 24 hour trip this weekend.

Just here to add Donnell Pond to the coastal Maine list.

What the **** are snowshoes?

Camden Hills and Cutler are all I've found. It was a 3 hour drive for me to Camden. If you do enough research in the right places you'll find a couple backcountry campsites with privvies. There is also a hike-in cabin available for rent for very reasonable. We did a short 4 mile trip but you can...

I hope not.

I just saw someone's IG story from last night and things looked like trash. It's coastal Maine for me this weekend.

People should read more abstracts and fewer media interpretations.

There are definitely actors out there who have that as their goal. I'll let you judge what their motivations might be.

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A few years back we set out for Stairs in December. Nothing was broken past Crawford and we only made it to the resolution shelter site before making camp in the dark.

At that point I've reached my destination for the trip. I'm either making camp right there and heading out in the morning or turning around immediately.