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Dates of Trip: February 22 and 23, 2014 Cast and Crew: Spaderman (Steve); Mad Dog (Mark); The Mighty Quinn (Mike) and your humble correspondent. Description:After a fairly successful weekend in the Greater Strangely Maine area last year nabbed Avery, West Bigelow and Saddleback (or so we...

Date: Sunday 2/23 Route:Saddleback Ski Area, starting at about 8:30 a.m., via Green Weaver and Tricolor trails, then up the "chute" above the ski lift to join the AT at a very weathered post, with the sign removed (which we had mistaken for the summit last year). North along the AT to...

Date of Hike: Saturday 2/22 Route: Bushwhack from behind the Sugarloaf GC clubhouse (go down the hill behind the golf clubhouse to a green pumphouse, and across the golf cart bridge, then up to the tee for Hole 11 "Precipice". Our snow shoe track follows a bearing of appx. 270-280 degrees...

After completion of the NH Winter 4K list in 2009, started to give some thought to what had to be done to knock of the NE Winter 67. We put together an excellent expedition to Baxter in 2011 (see "After Not Bathing at Baxter" in old trip reports), and had a great time in Percival Baxter's...

Saddleback Mountain wonderfully accommodating to uphill trekkers; just need to check in at base, sign waiver, and follow instructions. Spaderman, Roy Boy, Mighty Quinn and meself started from the base lodge (appx. 2500') at 9 a.m., ascending Grey Ghost (blue slope) to the warming hut at top of...

Stratton Brook Road was beautifully packed out as it is obviously a major snowmobile route. You can only drive in a few hundred feet before the plowed portion of the road ends, so plan on extra mileage from what is indicated in the Maine AMC Guide. Began our trek at about 8 a.m. Just beyond...

Project Vermont really came into being a month ago, when Spaderman (Steve), MadDog (Mark), the Keuka Kid (Kevin) and your humble correspondent did a traverse of Mounts Abraham and Ellen via Battell/Long and the Jerusalem Trails, crossing the Sugarbush Ski area in a semi-epic (i.e., slow) trip of...

This expedition to BSP took form in November when we began assembling a crew to try to add Katahdin and Hamlin to our Winter NE 4K peakbagging list. The group of participants morphed a bit over the ensuing months (regrettably, Ironman (Larry), Jim W. and John B. had to withdraw from the final...

"It's Gonna Be a Long Walk Home" (Apologies to the Boss, but accurate nonetheless). The Winter Tour of Redemption had ground inexorably toward a three-way 48 4K finish (say that five times fast) on Bondcliff for Creaky Knees, Spaderman, and your humble correspondent. CK and I were looking to...

(Apologies to Emerson, Lake and Palmer). Anticipating that there would be a fair amount of trail to break by virtue of the recent snowfall, Creaky Knees had done his best to drum up some company for our 3-man assault on Owlshead by posting on Trips & Events, but there were no takers at 6:00...

Dead Calm on Dead President's Day: Washington via Ammo Trail & Crawford Path 2/16/09 Trail Conditions:Ammonoosuc Trail was well-consolidated and easily barebootable to Gem Pool, where everyone went to crampons in anticipation of the steep segment to Lakes Hut, and the Crawford Path beyond. As...

Splendid Isolation, I don't need no one...." (Apologies to the late, great Warren Zevon). I most certainly did need someone to go and get Winter No. 43 last Sunday. Our four man crew consisted of the unstoppable Creaky Knees, our good pal Dave B., and his coworker Brian T. We were very...

Isolation via Rocky Branch Trail, Bushwhack, Isolation Tr. & Davis Path 1/10-11/09 Trail Conditions: On Saturday, there was well-consolidated snow on the RBT and on the bushwhack that begins just beyond height of land at appx. 3200'; we can't say enough good things about the previous hikers...

We (Creaky Knees, Spaderman and moi) had originally planned to take a shot at the Big Rockpile on Sunday, but with the Obs Higher Summits report forecasting winds at 50 to 75 mph for midday (yeesh!), we set our sights somewhat lower, leeward, and sheltered. Spaderman needed Tripyramids for his...

"Have sled will travel", or at least so we (Creaky Knees and I) thought, as we tried to kick off our winter season with a two-fer: A backpack trip up the Gale River Trail, hoping to get up to about the area of the old slide/washout at 3.1 miles, and camp there for the night, attacking South...

Trail Conditions: All trails were leaf-covered as foliage is now past peak. Sections of both the Rocky Branch and Isolation trails were quite wet, as advertised, especially in the area beyond the Dry River Wilderness Boundary sign at 2.6 miles in, and on the upper reaches of the Isolation...

Trail Conditions: Both of the "White" trails were somewhat wet & slippery from previous night's rain; drier on the bare rock faces of the summit cone, but watch those slippery quartz surfaces! Special Equipment Required: Thirteen (13) energetic & enthusiastic Scouts from Troop 414, Bedford...

In addition to the information contained in Spaderman's excellent post, please note that the footbridge at 1.7 miles referenced in both the AMC Guide and the Smith/Dickerman book is gonzo. I don't know if this happened recently with the torrential rains, but the bridge was there when last I...

:D Trail Conditions: Garfield Trail was its usual, mellow self - a pleasant, easily graded walk in the woods, up to the Land of the Seven (we counted 'em Steve) Switchbacks. All stream crossings were easily done. We encountered a fair amount of muck & mire (the famous Philadelphia firm)...

Trail name:Rocky Branch Trail from Rte. 16 Trail conditions:Well-consolidated and easily barebootable up to and just beyond the Dry River Wilderness boundary sign at 2.3 miles. Thereafter, we encountered some difficult going through a half-buried stream, and deeper snow because we missed the...