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Date of Hike: 1/27/15 Trail Conditions: Some small downed trees after the cabin, but easy to get over/around. Lots of leaves in the woods road water bars. Watch your footing as you can't tell how deep they are. On the ridge there was a bit of mud that was mostly frozen over/solid, but also...

Date of Hike: 8-16-15 Trail Conditions: Mostly dry on the Long Trail. Some spots were just a little wet. The bushwhack is a well defined herd path but has plenty of mud. Paths around most of the deeper holes are forming. Some of the mud holes have debris that will hold you up, some don't...

Parking: 44°45.505'N, 70°46.587'W Miles: 3.33 Total Elevation: 1,195 feet Total Time: 2:55 Elephant Mtn Rd doesn't have a sign at the end of it, but it is the first dirt road after Clearwater Brook when driving west on South Arm Rd. The brooks along the road are signed, so that helps. The...

Parking: 45°6.584'N, 70°35.929'W Miles: 3.38 Total Elevation: 1,297 feet Total Time: 2:21 The start of the road off of Route 16 is not marked with a sign, so be on the lookout. There is currently some ribbon hanging in the trees, but I am sure this is for the active logging in the area. The...

Parking: 45°17.006'N, 70°40.262'W Miles: 7.82 Total Elevation: 2,201 feet Total Time: 4:08 I drove out to the parking area yesterday, but realized on the way that I didn't bring enough food/water (and didn't have a filter). So I used it to make sure I knew where I was going instead. The road...

Parking: 45°15.574'N, 70°51.732'W Miles: 4.03 Total Elevation: 1,319 ft Total Time: 2:13 Drove into Canada on Route 27. With 3 questions asked, it was less than a minute to get into Canada. Drove into Gosford Park and stopped at the gate house. The ranger got there just before me, so it...

While I fully admit there are hikers with more impressive stats than me on here, I thought I would share the accomplishment I just completed over the last year. Background: While hiking my first round of the 48, I thought "it could be fun to do all 48 in one year at some point." Well, nearing...

Sunday 12/21/14 I found a scarf on the descent of East Osceola. It wasn't there on the way up and I suspect it was from the woman doing just East Peak that day. Message me with info about it and we can try to get it back to you. sdways01atyahoodotcom

Sunday 12/21/14 I found a jacket on the trail between the East Peak and Osceola. Being the first one out to Osceola today, it was probably from someone hiking Saturday. Send me a message with a description of the jacket and we can try to get it back to you. sdways01atyahoodotcom

Date of Hike: 11/15/14 Trail Conditions: Snow from bottom to top, but no more than 4 inches at any point. Once on the steeper climb away from the brook, snow on top of leaves was a bit slick, but manageable without traction. Some patches of ice on the Long Trail portion and one or two very...

Date of Hike: 6-1-14 Trail Conditions: Minor mud and wet spots in places, nothing to be worried about. One step over before Abraham, a handful of walk-unders on the way towards Ellen Special Equipment Required: Hiking boots Comments: Planned to do and out and back of Abe and Ellen from...

What I am looking for is info like the WMG provides about the trails (distance, elevation, book time). I have the AMC Maine Mtn Guide, but it doesn't break down the info about the trails quite like the WMG does. For most of the routes I am thinking about, you can get mileage and at least book...

Date of Hike: 4-24-14 Trail Conditions: Trail dry to slightly muddy down low. Hit snow/ice starting at 2900 feet where it stayed consistently to the summit. Just after the start of the snow and ice was an about 350 foot section of solid ice bulge covering the entire trail. This made things a...

Date of Hike: Trail Conditions: Trail was in great shape and easy to follow. Well blazed when I looked for/at them. No real blow downs or issues, although some branches encroaching on the trail in places. Brook crossings were on foot bridges or solid snow bridges Special Equipment Required...

Date of Hike: 3-18-14 Trail Conditions: Packed trail the entire way to the summit. Where skiers haven't been down the trail is a nice snowshoe track. Where they have been down the trail is packed, but could be smooth/slick for those without traction. Plenty of blazes where the hiking trail...

Mt. Cabot 3-9-14 York Pond Trail - Bunnell Notch Trail - Kilkenny Ridge Trail Distance: 9.30 mi. Elevation Gain: 2,500 ft. (overall) 2,877 ft. (total) Time: 3:09 (Cabin) 3:24 (Summit) 5:57 (Total) Today's hike felt like it has been a long time coming. The weather was great today. It...

Sandwich Dome & Jennings Peak 10-11-13 Sandwich Mtn Trail --> Jennings Peak Spur --> Drakes Brook Trail Distance: 7.70 mi. Elevation Gain: 2,582 ft. (overall) 2,838 ft. (total) Time: 3:10 (Sandwich Dome) 3:49 (Jennings Peak) 5:29 (total) When I originally planned for today off, the...

Sandwich Mtn Trail, Jennings Spur, Drakes Brook Trail Date of Hike: 10-11-13 Trail Conditions: A couple damp spots, but mostly dry. Leaves on much of the trail, but some spots have had them washed away by water running down the trail. Some blow downs that require step overs, step unders, and...

Mt. Wildcat D Peak & Mt. Wildcat 6-27-13 & 6-28-13 Lost Pond Trail --> Wildcat Ridge Trail --> 19 Mile Brook Trail Distance: 5.0 mi.(day 1) 3.8 mi.(day 2) 8.8 mi. (total) Elevation Gain: 2,404 ft. (overall) 3,479 ft. (total) Time: 3:25 (Wildcat D) 5:51 (Wildcat A) 7:01 (Hut)...

Thursday of this week (6/27/13) I am going to start a traverse up over the Wildcats, Carters, and to Moriah. I am hoping to leave my car at Stony Brook TH so that I can end up at my car at the end. I was wondering if anyone here might be heading down Rt 16 in the morning that I could arrange a...