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I am reminded of the tragic death of Vermont State Police diver Sergeant Gary A. Gaboury, who drowned in Huntington Gorge in Richmond Vermont while attempting the recovery of the body of another drowning victim on May 12, 1992. These similar backcountry gorges offer unique and challenging...

My sister, Helen Holmes is missing, and hasn't been seen since Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. While Helen isn't a hiker, she is a lover of nature, and spends a lot of time outdoors. She lives in Townshend, VT, and frequents natural areas in southeast Vermont. Helen also has taken trips to the White...

You can't go wrong with a visit to http://www.mountainwanderer.com/ He's got a spiffy new website, and there's always something new. I'm hoping Santa will bring me Beyond the Notches this year!

Is that last one the fireplace on Mt. Starr King?

You've hiked most of "The List," but you never bother to record the date. (Hmm...it must have been the early '90's...maybe '93?)

There's a section of the WMNF website dealing with invasives (NNIS.) There are pages showing invasive plants known in the forest, near the forest, and insects of special concern. There are maps showing treatment locations, and a list of locations with species present and treatment method to be...

My New Hampshire native parents pronounce it "COE-OSS" County. When they lived in Oregon, however they learned to pronounce Coos Bay as "Coose Bay." (rhymes with "loose")

Today I found an SD memory card in a case at the Marlborough Trail trailhead at the base of Mt. Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH. It has some pictures on it. PM me if you lost one.

Very nice story. Thank you for posting this.

I know I'm bucking the media here, but I object to the term "Nor'easter." Any student of New England accents will realize that no New Englander would pronounce that "R" in the middle of "Northeaster." It should properly be pronounced "Nawth-easter."

It's interesting to me that much of the "Central Section First Alternative," and the "Preferred Route" parallels an existing high-voltage right of way from near Bath as far south as Salisbury, crossing it in Bath, and again in Groton. I seem to remember that that existing line comes from Quebec...

I vaguely remember a description of a trip that went through to Mt. Carr along this ridge. I don't remember where I heard the story. From Mt. Carr, I once followed a herd path south in this direction, but it petered out after a half-mile or so. That's a few miles away. I also remember...

Red Ridge Trail I came down the Red Ridge Trail a few years ago in very good conditions. The trail travels over open sloped ledges and was a little difficult to follow because there weren't many cairns or blazes to follow. I don't remember it being rough at all.

My mother grew up within a mile of this bridge and told me stories of walking across it and swimming there. That was in the 1940's, so it's not even a little bit relevant to the original question, though.

I've enjoyed hiking a nice loop from the campground up the Fundy trail to the Shaw trail and over South Mountain, returning by way of the Mountain trail without much trouble. Once I went over to Round Pond and got mixed up finding the Boulder trail, but I walked up the road to the next trail...

I started riding an "at least" 20 year old junker 10-speed last fall, and discovered that is both uncomfortable and dangerous. For Christmas I bought myself a Trek 7000 "hybrid". I'm a cheapskate, and it was just about the cheapest bike in the store at $350, but I think it will suit my needs...

Another of my favorites from the NPS is the Yellowstone webcams conveniently summarized here, and in their narrow-format counterpart. At the bottom of those pages are links to other webcams in the National Parks and others that are wildlife related. Does anyone have other favorite National...

I read The Morning Report almost every day and enjoy it a lot. I'm really a National Park Service junkie. A book that I really enjoy is Death Daring and Disaster by Charles R. Farabee, Jr. It contains 500 pages of "Morning Report" type reports of incidents in Nation Parks from 1870 to 1997...

Just a note that these critters that frequent Mt. Washburn are not goats, but rather bighorn sheep. The females and juveniles stick together and are frequent visitors to the summit area. It is a real pleasure to see them, and they are not very shy. The males, with their characteristic curled...

I went to Yellowstone two years ago and am planning a trip this year. I had a great time! Here are a few links that you can spend a lot of time exploring: Poison Ivy's post on ROT describing her trip in 2007 I really enjoyed her post and her pictures. She helped inspire me to go, and got me...