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We took our trip later this year due to a vacation in the UK, so I was worried about the black flies but as luck would have it, the later winter meant we hardly saw any. Bonus! What can I say, this is one of the best hikes and camping sites in Maine, and certainly with some of the most...

I have a few solar panels now, but they're not really designed for hiking, rather a base camp. That said, I am doing the HMW (Hundred Mile Wilderness) in August and want something that will charge some AA batteries and my iPhone 4S since the iPhone (with SPOT Connect) will undoubtedly need a...

My wife and I saw an article last year in Backpacker magazine for the Bold Coast of Maine, just east of Cutler (way downeast). We decided to give it a try and had a great time. She wanted to go back again this year so we hit the trail on May 31. We got to the trailhead at 6:30PM and were...

Lowa Civetta's are a good boot, IME sells them for over $300 (last I remember), and at $30, they're a steal. I posted a link a few years ago on this and another site, and some people bought them. They said the boots were like new and excellent (but run a size small), so with the winter hiking...

I’m not going to write about Jackson, my 48th peak, because it was uneventful. Instead I’ll write about the day prior, March 12, 2010, when I hiked solo to get Bond and West Bond. I left home in midcoast Maine at 3:15 in the morning, the drive out was uneventful and I arrived at 7:15, this...

I noticed this on another site (not the one posted, but it has the same link address), and didn't know if someone here in the hiking community knew of the people in the pictures. If you do recognize them, can you let them know they were able to retrieve the pictures? Thanks.

Wildcat Ridge Trail from Rt 16 to Wildcat Ridge (E to A) down 19 Mile Brook Trail. Date of Hike: 12/06/08 Trail Conditions: Corn snow over ice. 3" to 6" of snow at the base, 20" to 30" snow at the summit and across the ridge. Ice on all the rocks, from 1/2" to 2" thick. Trail was not...

I thought I'd share...from Mark's Coffee House and Gear Emporium, open all night. :) I got tired of always having my hiking and camping stuff in multiple places, so I took one of the spare rooms in the farmhouse and converted it. I keep the shoes in the mudroom, so those in the pics don't...

Date of Hike: 8/31/08 Trail Conditions: Dry conditions, very windy, temps in the low to mid 40's, partly cloudy. Special Equipment Required: No special conditions, but a jacket and long pants recommended for the ridge. Comments: Optional - it was a little colder at the summit than I'd...

Well, I promised to get out more often, and yesterday Ian, Marcy, and I tagged Lafayette and Lincoln. It started out as a nice day with lots of clouds at the higher elevations, and we didn't know if we'd have a view. Ian had not been on Lafayette and Lincoln before, and Marcy only hiked Tom...

Hiked 3/15/08 with Ian and Josh. Left the Cog railway at 10:30AM, spent 30 minutes fiddle-farting on Monroe and 10 minutes on Washington, arrived back at the Cog at 6:40PM. Trail was deep packed snow, easily barebootable below treeline on Ammonoosuc and Jewell. Crampons required above...

Another weekend I didn’t have to work was fast approaching, and I decided Cannon would be a good one for Josh to cut his teeth on. He was new to the winter hiking scene, but loved Mt Willey two weeks earlier. It would require crampons, had a decent view on the Hi-Cannon trail, and was short...

2/3/08 Headed up from Pinkham to the Winter Lion's Head trail. Trail was very well packed out and easily bare-bootable to the steep section. From there crampons were a necessity. Lots of people heading up, with many turning back after the crest on the Lion's Head trail due to the high winds...

On Sunday Ian, Seth, and one of their friends Josh decided to accompany me to knock out Mt Willey. I was going to hit Willey and then bag both the Wildcats, but they wanted to start off light as they don’t do a lot of hiking. Seth and Ian both did Tom and Field with me last year and had a...

I would like to start by adding I have no affiliation whatsoever with Hydro-Photon, the makers of the Steripen. I receive no money from them nor get any favors, I am writing this solely to help those of us in the hiking community that have questions relating to the Steripen and water treatment...

The weather forecast called for occasional afternoon snows with winds in the 50-60 mph range, so on Thursday night the call was made to abort the Prezzie traverse scheduled for Saturday. I had plenty of options for hikes and climbs with other people, but I wanted to hike something solo, so I...

I have no affiliation with the company and am just posting this here to help people save some money in case they were looking for some. These are technical ice tools, but I have used them many times in the past and actually prefer them to the "mountaineering axe". They are short, thus not a...

I have some cycling/running friends that have heard all about my hiking adventures, but had yet to join me on anything but local hikes. I managed to coerce them into a weekend hike promising nice views, but they didn’t want anything that was too stressful, so I decided on Tom, Field and Willey...

I went to Freeport after work today and noticed they're having their annual winter sale, which is usually pretty good. The sale pertains to the main store, and the Outlet store had also some sweet deals. In the main store most winter accessories (snowshoes, skiing, clothing, etc) are 30% off...

I will be doing the Bonds traverse this weekend and staying at Zealand on Friday night. Since I have Friday off I figured I'd bag a few more mountains, so I was trying to figure the best way to get them in. Looking at the map, I noticed Hale summit is only about a mile from the North Twin...