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Hi All - noticed mid-day today quite a few F&G trucks - 2 at the Skookumchuck Trailhead, 2 with snowmobile trailer near the 5 Corners on Route 3, a couple more roadside. Looked like some kind of a snowmobile problem? Was it hiker-related? I searched WMUR and F&G FB page and didn't find...

Um, I haven't downloaded it, but I might.... I might have seen a couple people playing with it in my local park today. Wondering how it would be played on Franconia Ridge on a busy Saturday in July - ?????? Seems like it has potential to get people outside and earning "rewards" for...

Hi All! I have now tried twice to find Hawthorne Falls. Last weekend I went uphill from the Gale River Trail at the Garfield Stream junction. Many cool cascades and shelves - WOW! AND lots of big rocks with DEEP mossy holes in-between. Around 3200' woods got really thick near the...

Hi! I know asked this before (years ago!!!) and someone had a script that listed the count of the top USGS (I think???) feature names with a count and the locations. Would anybody be able to drum that up again???? I cannot find the listing anywhere!!!! Such as, Owl's Head, Black Mtn...

Hi All, Question about the Diamond Peaks Proposed Firetower site: http://www.firelookout.org/lookouts/nh/diamond.htm says the height was 2071'. If you take the Diamond Peaks Trail, it leads to the the East Peak (2050' per the 29th edition WMG). Last week I searched around for a...

Vacation week, so, I kind of had my heart set on skiing in the Pemi as I haven't been back in a while. Luckily, a snowboarding fall a couple weeks ago has restricted other outdoor activities and I have found myself doing more XC skiing than originally anticipated while certain inflexible joints...

Congrats to Rocket21 on his Calendar 4K Every Day finish today!!!! It was fun to be there with some other gridiots!!!!! Here's info on the accomplishment http://www.48x12.com/everycalendarday/4keveryday.html Here he is at an outlook along the way (bushwhacked) down overlooking the the...

Hi! Just wondering - I was at Pinkham today, mid-afternoon and it looked like there were quite a few F&G trucks. There were also a couple trucks at the auto road and a couple guys gearing up. I thought I heard a chopper but it could have been noise distortion from snowmaking at...

November 17, 2012: Hiking my way through trails in the Wild River area, my plan was Mt Meader Tr (including Brickett Falls), Basin Rim Trail, Black Angel (including Basin Trail Connector), Wild River, Eagle Link, Baldface Circle. I was actually hoping to hike Meader Ridge Trail but I changed...

Sept 29, 2012 I had wanted to hike a bunch of trails I had never been on, and, given the rainy forecast I wanted to stay low in elevation and see the foliage. Then I thought a bit longer and realized maybe the water in various falls would be higher so I decided to hit some waterfalls...

Sept 15, 2012: Wild River Trail and Black Angel Trail to Carter Dome I have always been intrigued by the trail title: Black Angel – seemed very mysterious…. Started out on from the Wild River Campground heading along the Wild River Trail, an old railroad bed. I kept hoping I’d seem some...

August 7, 2012: some new trails (to me) in the Presidential Range. General route: Caps Ridge to Jefferson, up and over onto Six Husbands Trail, Gulfside, down Sphinx, (jct @approx 3600’) to Great Gulf (back up) to Washington. From there, I took the Trinity Connector to Gulfside and the...

July 14, 2012: My final weekend of being restricted to, in the ortho dr’s words: “no uphill or downhill when hiking or running” due to a soft tissue injury in my right knee. So, some redlining in the Sawyer River/Pond area “kind” of fit the bill. Perfect chance to finish off the eastern...

June 23, 2012: Always wanted to explore the Brown Ash Swamp; just read Jazzbo's after I took a ride!!! Anyway, started out from Welch-Dickey Trailhead. I hiked a lot of the uphill, northbound, as I sized up the downhill: looked pretty good!!! I was pretty excited to get to ride back on...

June 20, 2012: mountain biked Eastside Trail, walked Wilderness Trail, Thoreau Falls Trail, turned around, returned to Wilderness Trail, crossed the Pemi River north to the old Wilderness Trail, followed the old portion (now discontinued) of the Wilderness Trial, and crossed back near Franconia...

June 9, 2012: Cave Mtn, Mt Parker, Mt Resolution using Cave Mountain Spur, Mt. Langdon Trail, Mt. Parker Trail, bushwhack, and the Davis Path First thing to do was drop off the mountain bike at the Davis Path Trailhead on 302. Only 2 cars in that lot as I unpacked my hiking-crap-filled car...

May 26, 2012: Doublehead Mtn, Mt Squam, Mt Percival - a sample of 2000-footers along the backbone of the Squam Range. Went up Doublehead Trail, took a right onto Crawford-Ridgepole Trail down to Sandwich Notch Road, reascended Crawford-Ridgepole back up and across to Mt Percival and back to...

May 19, 2012: Val C and I zig-zagged our way up Mt Adams and then zig-zagged back down. It was a full day, about 10.5 hours and probably around 16.5 miles, give or take. Trails included: Air Line, Link, Amphibrach, Beechwood Way, Valley Way, Randolph Path, Spur Trail, Knight's Castle...

May 12, 2012: Hiker Ed and I led an A.M.C. hike up Mt Chocorua on lesser-used trails to celebrate our birthdays. It wasn’t anyone’s ACTUAL birthday but four of us had birthdays during the prior week so it was pretty fun. We wanted to avoid the Piper Trail if at all possible!!! We still used...

Spawned from the "fast and light" hiking topic, but specifically, when you are planning to "run" or "jog" a large portion of the distance: what do you carry? I know it depends on temperature and terrain. Other trailrunners seem to carry very little. I am trying to figure out how to improve...