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My maps show the full ridge outside of the state park. Falling Waters appears to leave the state park within the first mile from the trailhead, at roughly around 2000' elevation. Considering the forest service allowed somebody (AMC?) to chisel steps and traction lines into rock on the Falling...

There are climbing routes on The Captain.

They were still there in early November this year. Edit: Actually it was late October.

It's amazing how difficult it is in the winter to find where the Falling Waters trail comes out of the woods near the summit of Little Haystack. There must be dozens of incidences now where people have missed it and ended up off trail. In my minds eye, it's just basically right there below the...

The Sven Saw works pretty good, as do some of the folding saws.

I take 5 or 10 pictures per day on average, and occasionally come out of airplane mode to send a text or to (rarely) go online for one reason or another. I didn't do any tracking on the trips in question. In any case, I completed many 2, 3 and 4 day backpacking trips this summer and never once...

Does anybody know if the Wilderness Act allow exceptions like this or discretion to land managers for treating some wilderness areas differently than others?

This is probably one of those circumstances where it's better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission. :)

Yeah I had no idea to the scale and strength of the storm (just thought it was warm with heavy rain) and was just asking because I wasn't sure if I was understanding correctly what people were talking about. Seems bad.

Download the map to your device, and then keep your device in airplane mode. I get 3 or 4 days with a newish Samsung doing that.

I broke the bindings on a brand new pair of MSR snowshoes on the first day on Denali. Ironically, I'm pretty sure they were called the Denali Ascent back then. (~ 2001) It didn't end up mattering because the weather pinned us down in basecamp for a week, and then my climbing partner got sick...

I'll let my BIL know. He's always looking for a new place to wet a line and it is beautiful in there near the pond.

That's all just from the recent weather event? Is this widespread through the Whites?

I haven't - thanks. I'll put it on my list for spring shake down trips before the Gila.

Thanks. I wouldn't have guessed to wait for an "all clear" from mud season. I've only heard of that for mountain bike trails, but it makes sense.

I thought about skiing today but decided it would most likely be too terrible to enjoy, so I hiked an 8 mile loop at Stonehouse Pond in Barrington that I'm very familiar with since I used to have an RV nearby at Ayers Pond campground. It's a nice walk through mostly rolling countryside. Didn't...

I'm thinking of doing an MSG thru-hike in April next year as a shakedown for a Gila Wilderness trip in May. I'm wondering if there are any potentially difficult water crossing that could be an issue in the early season?

This is the only thread where I've noticed any kind of animosity between members on the entire forum. If the thread is so upsetting, why not just self moderate and not open it? Nobody is changing anybody's mind- that ship sailed a long time ago when each of us became experts at everything. :cool:

I'm going with the VBL over a thin merino wool sock. I think there are a few ideas in play. One is that once humidity reaches 100 percent, you stop sweating. I'm not sure why that works, but it seems true. In my tests so far, the liner socks get clammy, but not soaked. The second idea is to...

I wouldn't be surprised to see signs start disappearing off the trails if people want them that badly.