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Sunday December 6, 2015 Trail Conditions: Airline: a couple inches of wet snow and ice below treeline, minimal ice above treeline, some drifting snow and a lot of rime near the summit. Star Lake trail: top section is pretty snowy, gaiters useful. Valley Way is mostly packed, wet snow. Special...

Baxter State Park has posted an opening for a ranger position on their website: http://www.baxterstateparkauthority.com/ Interesting list of supplemental qualifications on their application form.

Mount Garfield via Garfield Trail Sunday March 8, 2015 Trail Conditions: Excellent snow shoe track all the way to the summit. Plenty of parking on US 3 on the shoulder. Water crossings bridged, a couple easy blow downs. A lot powder off the snow shoe track. The upper half of trail has a...

Lower half of Stony Brook is boot packed, choppy and somewhat annoying. The upper half has a decent snow shoe track with fresh powder and some drifting. The Carter Moriah trail north toward Moriah (the ridge) was broken out previously but has substantial drifting and a number of blow downs...

Saturday Nov 29, 2014: Trail Conditions: Skinned up Polecat on my split board. It's $10 for the Wildcat access pass. Crispy snow making snow on the ski trails, powder on the edges. Wildcat Ridge trail was not broken out. A foot more or less of new powder with some deeper drifts. No base...

Trail Conditions: Hard frozen snow and ice. Below the Webster-Jackson trail split, it's mostly hard frozen snow with a couple ice flows. Above the trail split towards Jackson, there are a substantial number of long ice flows. Trail was packed out with snow shoes before the freeze so it's...

I hiked the Three Ponds trail south from NH 118 Saturday. I met two members of NH Fish and Game who were searching for a 72 year old man missing since Wednesday who apparently went out walking near Stinson Lake and didn't come back. What looked like a F&G helicopter was flying low and in...

Saturday May 26, 2012 Trail Conditions: The rerouted McCrillis Path does not appear to be officially open; however, it is mostly well flagged with a good foot way and is straightforward to follow. If ascending, leave the Whiteface Intervale road at a large conservation land sign on the left...

Saturday May 19, 2012 Trail Conditions: Trails mostly dry and bug free, water crossings not difficult. Six Husbands trail crosses a large snowfield above the Edmands Cutoff Trail. The Edmands Cutoff Trail also crosses a couple snowfields. Special Equipment Required: At least a ski pole to...

Sunday April 1, 2012: Ledges mostly dry and ice free. 1/4 inch new snow in the trees and on the trail above 2500". Top 500 feet of Moat trail north of North Moat is icy and some of the ledges have unavoidable ice. Only a few scattered sections of monorail snow. The lower Red Ridge trail is...

Saturday Dec 24, 2011 Trail Conditions: 3 - 5" fresh powder over frozen ground and ice. Trails are very icy above 3000". Upper ledges on Blueberry Ledge Trail are powder over ice. Some of the scrambles are very sketchy, especially on the descent. Special Equipment Required: Snow shoes not...

Sunday June 5, 2011 Trail Conditions: Huntington Ravine trail clear and dry except for a 30 foot low angle snow field in the bottom of the ravine. The slabs above the first scramble are wet but they are easily avoidable. Trail is in excellent shape, full summer conditions! Special Equipment...

Saturday March 6, 2010 Trail Conditions: Nineteen Mile Brook trail well packed, I bare booted. A previous party broke out the Carter Dome trail broken out to ~3500'. They lost the trail and turned around. Just below where they stopped, I bushwacked climbers left for maybe 10 minutes in open...

Saturday Feb 6, 2010 Trail Conditions: Amphibranch, a few inches of powder over old snow shoe tracks. I barebooted, probably should have put on snow shoes or traction. Spur, old snow shoe tracks, heavily drifted, snow shoes necessary. Above tree line: wind scoured snow and ice. I used snow...

Saturday, January 30, 2010 Trail Conditions: Crusty snow with an inch or two of powder low, 4 - 6 inches powder with deeper drifts higher up. Special Equipment Required: I often carry but rarely wear snowshoes. They were very useful today. Some of the stream crossings are on ice flows...

Mono Divide High Country The final leg of this trip was a 6 day backpack in the Mono Divide High Country just north of Kings Canyon. After hiking out of Whitney, I went back to the Lone Pine Ranger Station for the 11:00 AM drawing and got a unclaimed/walk in permit for the Piute Pass trail...

Mount Whitney The Ranger Station at Lone Pine releases unclaimed Mount Whitney permits at 11:00 AM every morning. I got there at 10:30 AM Monday August 3. I thought I might get a day hike permit or maybe the Mountaineers Route (which was free of snow). At 11:00, all parties waiting for...

This was primarily a High Sierra, off trail, backpack with some easy scramble peaks. It also gave me a chance for some ultra-prominence peak bagging. I didn't have a permit reservation for Whitney but I've heard it's pretty easy to get an unclaimed permit for Whitney and I was not...

If you're staying at Katahdin Stream campground and you get a rainy day (or two), the AT to Daicey Pond and the Grassy Pond trail make a great loop. It looks like the park has extended the Grassy Pond trail to the Tote road, just across from the main Kahandin Stream campground entrance. There...

Thursday July 23, 2009, we set out on the North Brother, South Brother and Coe loop with Fort as an option. All summits were in an out of the clouds and it was windy, cold, and very wet on the top of North Brother. We found the start of the Fort Mountain herd path but it was looking like we...