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Hearing Monday was strictly on how electronic issuance would work, law already states card is for calendar year and sets fee as $25 individual, $35 family Card can only be purchased over Internet Purchaser must supply name, birthdate, height, weight, hair and eye color, street address, credit...

Obviously setting deeper col requirements will affect height-based lists by removing some peaks, the AMC 48 4k would become the 35 if a 300' col was used. A list of a certain number of peaks will change by adding lower peaks at the end that wouldn't make it if a shallower col was used. In...

Moose Mtn is a longish ridge near Hanover that runs N-S about ten miles between maintained road crossings. The Appalachian Trail runs along the N half over two named summits, while the S half has some 13 unnamed bumps of which only one has a 200' col, and a sketchy trail which circles most of...

The Greenwood ice caves are located on a sidehill and offer much more vertical depth than say the Ice Gulch in Randolph NH which is in a valley bottom and primarily horizontal. There are dozens if not hundreds of overhangs and crevices big enough to fit a person, I did not go far enough in to...

This description is intended for those who like following obscure trails and don't care where they go. http://cfem.newenglandforestry.org/forestryold/images/map%20for%20forest%20database.jpg This peak has no official name but is located at the end of Leavitt Road in Ashland NH. Much of the area...

This peak SW of Plymouth NH is SW of Plymouth and officially unnamed, but Texas Hill Rd loops around 3 sides of it. I had a couple hours to kill after a meeting downtown and thought this would be an easy bushwhack but instead found an extensive trail system. The shortest approach to the summit...

Lots of people have hiked the length of Vermont but this group [crossvermont.org] are building a multi-use trail the width. My mother said it would be easier to do from Sherburne Pass as it's halfway built already, but the chosen route follows the Winooski and Wells Rivers. Where possible they...

Ed Webster has attempted Mt Everest from the N, S, and E but this lecture is mostly about his group's ascent from the E - done without Sherpas hence without oxygen. Concord NH city auditorium 2 Prince St, Wed. Nov. 5 7:30 pm Yes I know that's a lot of notice but I don't want you to book...

This was my first hike up this NH fire tower peak. (My previous visit in 1976 I drove a Honda sedan with 10" tires to the tower.) The trail was packed snow with some sections of spongey gravel lower down, no need for spikes and snowshoes only useful off-trail. There were some previous foot...

Does anybody have the coords of the Underhill SP winter parking, I couldn't find that here?

This gent seems to have both the experience as a non-profit exec and the VT hiking background that the previous executive director lacked, let us all wish him well http://gmc.convio.net/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=11041&em_id=3001.0

Trail much smoother than summer with good walking surface - most people had microspikes but I didn't slip once without them the whole way up. Snowshoes only useful if leaving trail, maybe those with real crampons were headed to Ike. Only one blowdown easily bypassed, small rivulets still...

If this isn't confusing enough here, they actually have a PDF set of rules: http://www.hills-database.co.uk/summits_and_cols.pdf They also have a greater challenge with pronunciation than we do :-)

This former ski hill and sanatorium site has been preserved by the Monadnock Conservancy who have improved a small trail system. There was a sign N of the peak for Dublin School Nordic Area, but the road in was narrow and twisty and looked better suited to skiing than driving so instead I parked...

I had heard there was a snowmobile trail up Avery Hill in Alton NH but was unable to find out about its route. The trail from the SE shown on the USGS map that I climbed a few decades ago has now been blocked by new home construction. I decided the best thing to do was to go look for it. I...

I have been reading "Dirt Work" by Christine Byl, who spent 6 years on the trail crew in Glacier NP and a year in Chugach NF before a long stint at Denali NP. She has a Masters in creative writing and has taught seminars so some of it is a little artsy. Some comments: Glacier NP crews always...

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:2701999 Why didn't the Reagan supporters think of this?

After reading about icy conditions in White Mtns, decided to go the other direction instead. Parked at rock climbers lot at S end. Starting off on the level was fluffy snow over hard ice and I wished I'd gone to Gorham instead, but as grade steepened there was only snow and finally the ground...

I decided to skip across the border to where rifle deer season had ended and hike in the Hartford Town Forest. There are several mapped trails and probably twice that many unmapped mountain bike trails, which seem to grow like weeds in the Upper Valley. I was surprised that Reservoir Road was...

I have been reading "Mountain Rescue Doctor" by Christopher van Tilburg, many of their incidents are on avalanche-prone terrain on Mt Hood and those below treeline often come with poison oak thickets. On one of their major searches a private group showed up with a drone which didn't help that...