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Well, I'm sure some of you will know where this trail is, but I told a couple of locals that I wouldn't spread word about it so I'm not saying where it is. I will say that it is a awesome location and one of the highlights of the Northeast. The trail is a loop with half on the coast and half...

On Saturday night during Gathering 12.0 in Eustis, Jamie Corriveau who is the Operations Manager for Maine Huts and Trails came by to give us a quick info talk on the Maine Huts and Trails organization. Currently they have two huts open and operating, Poplar Stream Falls and Flagstaff Lake...

On Sunday, after Gathering 12.0 in Eustis, Joyce, Stan, Peakbagger, and I headed over the East end of Flagstaff Lake for an overnight trip to the new Maine Huts and Trails' Flagstaff Lake Hut. Info on the huts can be found at their website: http://www.mainehuts.org/ It is about a 2 mile hike...

This report is a long time coming... When I was living in Hawaii (man, how did I give that up?) I bought a used solo outrigger canoe. It was a little beat up, but it fit me and the price was right (new ones go north of $3500). There was a bit of a learning curve, but I got to be an ok novice...

My coworker (slacker who won't make his own VFTT account) is going to Wales and is interested in mountain biking there. Anyone have any info places to go, must ride trails, where to rent bikes, places to avoid etc? He has biked here in the Northeast and out West, so he is up for an adventure...

Views From The Top Film Festival Call For Entries The Views From The Top Film Festival invites you to submit your mountain lifestyle, skiing, surfing, or climbing film for consideration for its first Film Festival, to be held in late October, 2009, in central New England (exact date and...

Last night was 2 for 1 nite at Carabiners rock gym in New Bedford. We had a nice group there - site members trainwreck, koppmw (mike), Carmel, and myself and also another Mike and Marcy. 6 people in for the price of 3. nice. :) Mike and Carmel continued to kick butt, while my climbing is...

Yes, that's right, New Bedford, MA, home of Moby Dick is also home to a rock gym. Well, it is actually home to one of the biggest rock gyms in the country - Carabiner's. 32,600 sq ft of climbing 65' high main walls overhanging roofs, cracks, and some very cool stalactites 112 top rope...

Last month I proposed the VFTT Film Festival in this thread: http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27629&highlight=film+festival I then posted a poll to see how many people are interested in submitting films and what types of films they would submit. So far almsot 20 people said they...

Please see this thread for information on the proposed VFTT Film Festival: http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27629

Carmel and I have discussed the Banff Film Festival many times over the past several years. We feel that "back in the day" the films were real indy efforts and often produced by a few friends that were having fun the backcountry. Today, a lot of the films are funded by six figure grant money...

Got the below email from Giff ( [email protected] ). please email him or repspond here to coordinate with others.

Got an email requesting that I post this for James Rutton: I don't know him, I'm just posting this for him. - darren

Hi. I posted a some photos in a trip report thread that Chomp started on a 3 day kayak trip we did on Lake Umbagog. They were kind of buried so I figured I would repost a couple of the shots here. This is our campfire at sunset. The white dot in the sky is Jupiter (I looked it up on...

Margaret DeFreest - [email protected] found a camera on the summit of Jefferson on Aug 29th and would like to try to find the owner. Please email her if you think it is yours. Aloha - darren

OK, I posted this in the "Back from Hawaii" thread, but I figured I should post it here to make sure you paddlers see it. Me, my friend Marcus, and his two labs Pono (the yellow lab on "Lost") and Hone surfing Marcus' four man surf canoe. We were surfing the breaks called "Suicides" (not...

As my leg has gotten stronger, I have been able to do a lot more hiking out here on Oahu. The more places I hike the more I want to hike. The diverse forests, birds, narrow ridges, and dramatic mountains are incredible. Usually it is a long hike to get up to the ridges and peaks - if you can...

I finally broke down and bought a gps rcvr - the Garmin 60CSx. The unit seems nice enough, but the maps are really disappointing. For testing purposes only, I have acquired a set of the Garmin US 100k maps and the Garmin Eastern US Natl. Parks 24k topo maps. My take: The 100k maps are...

A friend of mine is looking for suggestions for an overnight backpack. He will be doing route with his son and he is looking for a hike of about 5 miles in to a tent site, 5 miles out the next day (loop or out and back), and due to other family restrictions the hike needs to be within a 2 hour...

Received the following questiosn via email. Can you NY'ers help them out?