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Anybody been up this trail recently? Is the stream along the lower part of the trail is a reliable source of water given the dry summer we've had? I'm packing for this weekend and trying to gauge how many water bottles I need to bring.

I was intending to hike Greylock from the North Adams airport with an overnight, but it doesn't look like I'll have the time. So I'm looking at alternates... which one of those three would be the most interesting as an afternoon dayhike from Wilburs clearing? The plan is to stash my pack near...

Long shot, but I found a digital camera yesterday in Harriman State Park while looking for mushrooms. It was a short distance off an unmarked trail (old woods road), down a small cliff from an old unofficial campsite. Somewhat beat up but functional (after charging the battery), it appears to...

Does anybody know what the status is of camping along the AT and/or the leantos in Greylock reservation amid the covid mess? I can't seem to find a straight answer on any mass gov website. I was hoping to do an overnighter from North Adams this weekend. Campsite recommendations welcomed...

Planning to do Blueberry, Porter, and maybe Cascade from the airfield this year. Question: are there any good places to camp near the stream crossing just inside the state land? The plan is to fly in to the airfield in the afternoon, camp in that area, then day hike the peaks and return to...

Here’s something I haven’t seen discussed here… I’m looking for places to hike (i.e. trailheads) close to small airports in the northeast. New England, NY, Pennsylvania, anyplace I can reach in a couple of hours in an old slow (80mph) open cockpit biplane from central Connecticut, with no...

We're looking at doing a loop over the Carters using the Imp trail and Nineteen Mile Brook to the Carter Dome trail, probably including the bushwhack between Imp and NMB (or possibly a short road walk and bushwhack to the Imp from Camp Dodge). Anyway, depending on when we arrive it won't be a...

Harriman State Park seasonal road closures will be going into effect tomorrow, 12/6. The following will no longer be accessible in Harriman State Park: Exit 16 (Lake Welch Drive, Tiorati Brook Rd) Arden Valley Rd Rt. 106 from the Kanawauke Circle to Rt. 17 Please note that the Kanawauke Parking...

Couple of sizeable forest fires in Harriman State Park over the past few days. 180 acres in the Pine Meadow area and nearly 500 acres on and around Tom Jones Mountain. Looks like the fires started Sunday afternoon or evening and as of Tuesday afternoon are contained and mostly out, thanks in...

Looking for info on the Elk Lake - Marcy trail for Columbus Day weekend. The original plan was to do Skylight from Upper Works with two nights out, but I've done most of that before and I've always wanted to see Panther Gorge. So the idea is to spend two nights in Panther Gorge and day hike...

I was in EMS yesterday buying fivefingers for my daughter, and while wandering around I saw the Thermarest Neoair sleeping pads, which I hadn't seen before. Impressive! Unfortunately, so is the price... :( Anybody used one of these? All of the reviews I saw were mostly from people who used...

My wife found this very well done website about Harriman State Park: http://www.myharriman.com/

Hopefully this means "we don't have to plow it right away" rather than "it's closed, keep out." There are several trailheads (Ramapo-Dunderberg, Victory, and White Bar trails as well as several unmarked trails) and hiker's parking areas on this road which would become inaccessible. The road...

Ever since it was suggested by a girl I met once at JBL I've wanted to do Gothics via Pyramid. Trying to figure out the details now... what's the deal with the Ausable Club lands nowadays? Can non members hike the west river trail or do you have to stick to the road? I was told once that you...

Parked at the Long Path trailhead on Rt. 6, then proceeded east via the PG/R-D/TT/1779/1777 trail. Between Queensboro Lake and the Hell Hole stream crossing where the fireplace is/was, the trail is rather unpleasant... it was entirely dug up and bulldozed to make for a new water system feeding...

http://www.lohud.com/article/20120410/NEWS03/304090100/Brush-fire-continues-burn-Harriman-State-Park

This was a low key hike. The original plan was the short hike to Smith's Den that we often do in the winter, but my friend couldn't make it and it was so warm (for a January hike), so my plan B was a hike I've thought about for a couple of years, camping on one of the ridges on the southeast...

Took advantage of unseasonably mild New Year's day temperatures to hike around the Clinton Land Trust land. No views, just a nice mellow forest walk. So different from on skis, which is how I usually travel back there. Trails wet but not too soggy, a pleasure in moccasins instead of boots...

I'm looking for input on the difference between "Gore-tex Respiration Positive" and Pertex DS fabrics for a bivy sack. I'm leaning toward the OR Highland bivy, which uses the Pertex (all their other bivys use Gore-tex), but I know some other gore-tex competitors haven't been all that great...

Did this trip with my two twentysomething daughters and the younger daughter’s boyfriend Andy, who hails from New Zealand. The younger girl isn’t a real strong hiker, and the Jewell trail is one of the best “bang for the buck” approaches to Mt. Washington. Arrived at the trailhead right at...