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I have had good luck using an aquarium air pump. They are cheap, quiet and only draw a few watts. I use them to dry out my water bladders by inserting the pump hose into the bladder hose after popping off the mouth piece. This dries out the hose and bladder. It might take a couple days to get...

I hiked the Kinsman Ridge Trail up to Cannon a few winters ago. I remember it being pretty steep right out of the ski area parking lot! No warming up on a gradual incline on this approach! I was planning to come back down the same way, but made a big loop out of it coming down Hi-Cannon and...

I went on an AMC Above Treeline Workshop a few years back. We practiced self arrest on Hillman's Highway. Great spot with a nice run out into weeds, not rocks in case you don't get it right. Definitely try it backwards and upside down. That was the hardest. The nice thing about this location is...

I just checked with NHDOT about Jefferson Notch Road and the woman I spoke to said she was told they opened it 20 minutes before I called. If I go, I will verify. (I may have lost my hiking partners.) I was thinking of playing it safe and approaching JNR from the north off Valley Road. Then if...

My sons and I are looking at hiking Jefferson and Adams from Jefferson Notch Road. 1) Is Jefferson Notch Road drivable from Rt. 302 with a passenger car (all-wheel drive RX 350 SUV)? 2) If we head to Adams after Jefferson and want to return to Jefferson Notch Road, is the taking The Cornice...

Given that the pass expires two weeks after purchase, one can't be too long term.

We may have some time to say goodbye to the old location. According to an AMC FAQ:

From the Boston Globe Magazine: ‘When you find my body’: The last days of Gerry Largay Lost for at least 19 days in the Maine wilderness, the 66-year-old died as she had lived: with courage and with grace...

Caught in spruce trap on Liberty Springs trail TPBM is someone swimming in the Whites

I am thinking of heading up soon to hike Jefferson with my sons. To get an early start, I am considering driving up to Cherry Mountain Road and camping there Friday night. How early would I have to get to Cherry Mountain Road to get a site on a Friday? Is Jefferson Notch Road navigable from...

Trail hiked: Gorge Brook, Glencliff, Carriage Rd., Snapper Trail conditions: Gorge Brook is beautiful! Trail is in excellent condition. Coming down Carriage Road is sort of boring and tough on the knees, but it was way better to ascend on the shady Gorge Brook Tr. than the wide open, sunny...

On the heels of a massive solar storm that caused large Auroras last night (6/22/2015), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a 72 hour magnetic storm watch indicating a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) or a high speed solar wind stream...

Thinking of hiking Moosilauke this Saturday to celebrate Father's Day and Summer Solstice Eve. Any recent reports on black fly activity in the area? My sons are plagued by them. Wondering if finding a different summit with less running water might be a better plan. Also, is it OK to park at the...

When I got down to 8 or 9 peaks left on my list, I set Garfield aside as my final 46er. One of the Bonds would have been nice, but I knew few would have been able to join me for that trip. Garfield was not a hard hike, so other could have come along. As it turned out, it was just me and my...

The last time I used my GPS in extreme winter conditions, it wasn't the batteries that suffered from the cold as much as it was the screen. The LCD display was horribly sluggish to respond and very hard to read. Luckily, the GPS was just a back up navigation tool since we had sufficient...

Those are hilarious! Thanks for sharing!

It's part of Nasa's red-lining mission of Mars! ;-)

Maybe he's doing it based on principal, but I would think paying lawyers to argue your case all the way to the state supreme court would cost more than then just paying the fine.

There were quite a few black flies swarming on the summit of Garfield Saturday, 6/28 - a little surprising for this late in the season. I didn't get any bites, but my sons must taste better because they did get bitten. The black flies should be gone by the end of July. Not much trouble with...

Talking with the caretaker at the Guyot camp site last summer, she said she said there haven't been bears in the camp site in a long time. It's not worth the energy for them to climb that high up on the ridge for food. (We used the bear lockers anyway.) I would think that for the short time it...