Recent content by FreightTrain

Thanks Jim. It is a mentally tough one. The walk out on the road takes it toll.

Mike, Eric, and I decided to attemp Lafayette and Lincoln. The weather was not all that great and even a little rain in the Tramway parking area. We started up the Greenleaf trail on our way to Lafayette. This hike was a lot different than the flat walking I did 2 days earlier. We had about...

With only 3 peaks left on my winter list, I wanted to get 1 crossed off. I thought that I would take advantage of the minimal snow and get Mt Zealand done. I left the the parking area on Rt 302 right abut 8:00am. It felt a little colder than what I expected but there was no sense in checking...

This link provides some good all around information. http://www.city-data.com/city/Eastport-Maine.html

The winters are not as bad as some would think. The coastal waters do moderate the temperatures. Winters are a bit warmer and have less snow than what I get here in the middle of NH. I alos think the growing season (I'm a gardener also) is longer there than here in NH. On the other end, few...

I will be retiring in Maine within two years. I moved to NH in 1983 from CT to get away from the crowds. I have loved living in NH the whole time. I will be moving to Maine to once again avoid the crowds. I have fallen in love with downeast Maine. Washington county is the poorest in Maine...

Thanks for the reply RoySwkr

Do they allow overnight parking at the Beaver Brook Recreational Facility?

We started our 3rd winter attempt at the twins around 8:00am Saturday morning. There was one truck at the end of the road for the seven dwarfs when we got there. A wide very well packed snow shoe troth was already established. We decided to see how far the bare boot thing would get us. The...

Our first overnight hike of 2010. We had debated the use of sleds for this hike and determined (at the tralhead) that we would make the sleds work. We were the only vehicles in the Imp face (north end of imp loop) parking area friday night. The sleds pulled OK even though there were bare...

We arrived at the cog station around 8:45am with temps in the mid twenties. There were 20 vehicles in the lot. We started up the Ammonoosuc Ravine trail behind a group of about 10 hikers. The trail was well packed and we decided to start out in bare boots. It seemed a little warm and there...

We didn't want the first winter weekend to get away without a hike and Saturday looked like the better choice for the weather conditions. We parked across the street from the Pine Bend Brook Tail where there were two other vehicles. Started up the trail at 9:00am and 19 degrees. It was...

The upper section from bondcliff to bond did get side tracked a little. When I hit the spruce traps the only thing that kept me going forward was the knowledge of the big group that had just gone through the section. I thought it better to follow the group rather than hunt around for the...

Sorry for the late reply. The wind came across the polecat pretty good. The open ski slopes only created a funnel for the wind. The wind was mostly on your back for the walk up, but mostly in your face for the walk down. It was more of a problem in the upper sections of the polecat. The...

Previous trip reports mentioned hiking from the ski area, so we thought it was a good plan. As mentioned in those posts, we stuck to the left side of the Polecat trail and did a bareboot ascent. We started at around 9:00am. The wind was blowing strong across the slopes so two of the lifts...