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Trail is in great shape - we did meet some hikers doing maintenance - thanks Christine & Tony. Lots of wild flowers and lots of poison ivy at the start. Just a down right great day to be in the mountains!! Beauty around every corner: Life is Good!

Tired of snowshoes so we chose these three little mountains Photo Essay: Gilligan Mountain: Baxter Mountain: Owls Head:

An absolutely awesome day to be in the mountains: The Views were outstanding!! A hike to take our time to enjoy the great views and warm sunshine: We used Hillsound Trail Crampons and Microspikes the whole hike. Did a loop starting at the Lost Pond end. Lots of ice flows on the...

Happy Easter Everyone! What a differance a week can make - we did a 'spring' hike up Porter last week: Yesterday (3/31/13) we hiked Hurricane from Route 9N: On Hurricane microspikes were perfect. We started early and snow was crispy but on the descent it was starting to get slushy. If...

Just a perfect day to be out in the mountains. Quite a few groups doing Sawteeth/Gothics..some continuing to Wolfjaws. Snowshoes from the gate and all day long. Trail is well broken out over Pyramid to Gothics. We met some great hikers as always! We chose to continue on a loop down the...

Trail hardpacked and easy to follow to both Street & Nye. Great day in Great Mountains with Great Friends! It was a chilly start - single digits below zero - we looked like a bunch of bandits: Hamming it up on Heart Lake: Heart on Heart Lake: Just one of those bluebird days:

Awesome day to hike - trail up to Phelps mostly hard packed with little snow - snowshoes and or microspikes - easy water crossings - a little windy on summit. A few photos: Trail to Marcy Dam: Great view at dam: Little snow on the summit: Hikers Hamming it up: Happy Hikers on their...

Snowshoes all the way - nicely packed trail. The snow on the mountains is incredible - just absolutely beautiful!!! Met lots of nice hikers on the trails. The one mistake we made was not to bring our sleds - it was perfect for sledding on the descent. Photos: Met Ed descending Porter -...

Barebooted to base of slide and then put on microspikes. Ladder was just snow covered - not icy. Top half of ladder there is a huge tree on top of it but you can go to left easily. There were many icy areas to navigate: But the views from the summit were worth it: Life is good...

Great hike up Tabletop today - about 6 inches of snow near summit. Microspikes very useful that last mile on ascent to summit. Pretty windy but nice and protected on our route. We met Tom and Alex on the trail heading to Marcy: And then we 'heard the footprints'

Perfect weather for this hike! No traction needed except for we used microspikes on many iceflows from Colvin intersection to Nippletop/Dial Interection: Views were awesome!

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A short photo essay of conditions: Start of day beautiful views and some blue sky: A little differant weather high up: Had the pleasure of meeting 'Hearthefootsteps' descending Rocky: A little snow on summits and quite a bit of ice (used microspikes) Views from both summits...

I wasn't sure where to post this. Met these guys with the plan of doing Cliff/Redfield on 10/11/12 and then finishing their 46 with Skylight/Gray/Marcy the following day. I told them I would post their photo on VFTT - I can't remember their names but I think one was Peter..anyway...here's the...

Just wanted to share this photo from today 10/8/2012 on Cannon Mountain

Just a quick note as to conditions on Ampersand Mountain 3/30/2012 Barebooted most of the way then microspikes did the trick. No snow to speak of. As always - views awesome!

Since I used mostly my nature photos, I thought I would share this slide show that I do each year in place of traditional Christmas cards. When you click on the link, you may be prompted to download 'active X' - it is safe to do this. Also you cannot view this on an Apple. Also if you right...

Micro spikes all the way to Slant Rock - no problem with stream crossings. Took Shorey Shortcut - still used micro spikes - a couple of spots crampons would have been useful but not enough to bother with the switch. Haystack trail intersection put on crampons and used entire way to summit...

What turned out to be an absolutely perfect day with blue skies and NO wind we were able to finish our quest for Winter 46Rs on Haystack - thanks to everyone on the forum for all the valuable information that helped us with our quest. Micro spikes, snowshoes and crampons for the day. Mostly...

Snowshoe all the way day - no need of other traction. Trail well broken thanks to the trail angels.