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Clear but frigid day walking along's Mansfield's ridgeline. Loop hike, start point Underhill State Park. Great snow conditions! Full report: https://alavigne.net/Outdoors/ImageGallery/2015/02-16-Mansfield/

For those interested, here's the trip report of a late-September (2014) visit to the desert southwest (well, more specifically, Grand Canyon and Zion NPs). I'm calling this one the "checklist edition" because the plan was to cross off a number of outings that we'd been wanting to do over the...

Hi, All I thought many might be interested in a trip report detailing a week-long (well, more like 9 days) trip spent exploring several trails / routes along the Continental Divide between Glacier National Park and Banff National Park, in early August of 2014. Only one of the outings ended up...

Images and TR of a nice day (Sat, Nov 16) in the Johns Brook Valley area, over Yard / Big Slide / The Brothers: http://alavigne.net/Outdoors/ImageGallery/2013/11-16-YardBigSlide/

Mostly bare down low, 2-4 inches of soft snow up high. Not a lot of ice underfoot, except in a few isolated spots. Used microspikes only on steep east side of Big Slide Summit. Too little snow for snowshoes. Full TR and images here...

Hi, All A report documenting a recent (last month's) trip to southern Utah is available for viewing. It was another of the many I've done over the years in southern Utah, but this was the first time we were kicked out of a park! I therefore title this report "Permits and Politics"...

For those interested, here's my trip report of a wonderful day climbing the winter Great Gully Route in King Ravine (and ultimately to Mt Adams). There was still a healthy amount of snow all the way from the bottom of the Gully to the top, allowing us to do part of what we came for - practice...

Hello. Last weekend we did a great three-peak, two-day outing to both the Adirondacks and NH. Two little peaks and one big one: Catamount and Snow in the Adirondacks, and a great winter-conditions climb of Moosilauke a day later. All three trip reports available for perusal here...

Today we did what turned out to be a quite easy but somewhat blustery climb of Hurricane (in the Adirondacks) via the northern approach. I've never climbed Hurricane via that way. A nice and straightforward alternative to the more common route. Trail conditions were a couple of inches of...

A warm and calm but rather snowy and cloudy day climbing the Webster Cliff Trail to Mt Jackson. Lots of trailbreaking, and it took us a very long 11 hours to complete the outing. Trip Report below: http://alavigne.net/Outdoors/ImageGallery/2013/02-25-Jackson P.S. Found a single undamaged...

Hi, All Did my 114th out of 115 on the NE 111 on Abraham via the Firewarden's trail back in July (16th). Of note are the fact that the Firewarden's cabin has been burnt to the ground and mostly cleared away, a new backcountry campsite now exists, and several sections of trail re-route...

Hello, All On Wednesday, we were intending to do a loop hike of Franconia Ridge starting from the Falling Waters / Old Bridle Path trailhead, but icy conditions combined with a missing crampon bolt turned it into a there-and-back up to the summit of Lincoln (via the Falling Waters Trail). For...

Took two days off work to hike the Rangeley-Stratton stretch of the A.T., with the objective of tagging seven of the eight NE111 that are along the way (or close to along the way). As it turned out, this was a harder traverse than I'd thought, and we ended up skipping the side trip to Abraham...

There doesn't seem to be a good accounting of the 'logging roads' method of accessing Mt Redington -- one of the barely-4000 footers in Maine -- out on the web. So, here's the trip report which details exactly that, from an outing we did in early August: Ascent of Mt Redington via Caribou...

Hi, All I kinda forgot about VFTT for a few months it seems, and it was Clay Olds who suggested that perhaps I should post the links to some of my recent outings. First off is a link to a Glen Boulder-Mt Monroe-Ammonoosuc Ravine traverse where I completed the last of my NH48. A very, very...

We did a fairly ambitious cycle/hike circuit over Mt Isolation few weeks ago, and I've only just managed to get the writeup completed. We parked at Pinkham Notch, cycled [mostly downhill, fortunately] to Bartlett, and then hiked up most of Montalban Ridge, crossing over Isolation, then...

Did a fantastic week-long trip to the desert SW this past April - mostly focused on a 5-day backpack in the Grand Canyon, but also included a day or so's wandering around Death Valley. We used the Waldron Trail / Boucher Trail on the way down into the canyon. This was my first time down this...

Ascended via Osgood Ridge and descended via the Daniel Webster Trail. Had to break trail pretty much the entire way up and the entire way down. Looked like no sign of human activity for at least a week. There were a few blowdowns on the mid-section of the Daniel Webster trail, very little on...

A bit tardy in posting this, but here's my trip report of a semi-loop outing to climb Mt Madison last Sunday (the 10th). We ascended via Osgood Ridge and descened via the Daniel Webster Trail. Surprisingly to me, we had to break trail pretty much the entire way up and the entire way down...

On the Columbus day weekend, I decided to finally do a traverse of the central Pemi from south to north, starting at Lincoln Woods and ending at the North Twin Trail. Since I'm trying to cross off peaks for my NE 111, we also detoured to Zealand. Anyhow, the weather up on the peaks didn't end...