Search results

One of the two snowboarders I met at a big blowdown left behind a single snowshoe, which I found on my way back down the trail later. There was no one waiting for me (in the dark, by then) at the Beaver Brook parking lot, and I did not notice any cars at the end of Trudeau Road, so I turned the...

How? Why? It had been working, now it isn't. No Menu option to affect it, as far as I can see.

I turn on my Garmin GPSMAP 64st, the logo comes on the screen, but as soon as the tiny, blurry letters at the bottom of the screen appear, the unit turns itself off. Over and over again, until something that I try finally gets it going, then it’s fine. ‘‘Something that I try,’’ like swapping...

On Thursday, January 11, 2018, I left the items just beyond the hikers’ gate at the far end of the Hancock Overlook parking lot, behind a birch tree to the right of the gate: A Nalgene water bottle with a picture of a hermit thrush on it and a Stanley insulated bottle that had held coffee or...

I don’t think that it is on any peakbagging list. But does it have a canister or peanut butter jar or sign or anything else denoting its summit? I was up there yesterday, and, though my GPS indicated that I passed over the summit (as marked on the map), I didn’t see any of the above or even any...

When all else fails, ask DougPaul. I just bought a Sony camera from an online seller, and it looks like it was designated for Europe, not the United States. The plug for recharging the battery has a 3A on it, which is supposedly used for 250 volts. The 125-volt designation should be 6A or 8A...

I know it was lost the same day, because the Mizpah Spring Hut caretaker told me that a man had stopped in asking about it. She said I arrived about 30-45 minutes after he left. But I had spent some time eating my lunch before going inside to ask about it, so I may have encountered the person...

At the Crawford Path parking lot on Wednesday, May 6, my GPS could not acquire satellites. The GPS of course is a Garmin 60CSx. I have had trouble with it now and then previously, as some of you may remember, but I never saw anything like this. It shows zero satellites on the display. None. No...

I’ve seen all these rocks recently along White Mountain trails. They look like they burst apart from a single point. Is this a natural phenomenon or a remnant somehow of the logging industry? In front of Galehead hut. Hancock Notch Trail. Hancock Loop Trail. North Twin Trail.

This 3000-footer, the sub-peak of The Horn — The Horn near Saddleback Mountain in Maine, not The Horn near Cabot Mountain in New Hampshire — did it used to have a trail? I climbed Saddleback, The Horn, and Saddleback Junior on Wednesday, and when I returned to The Horn on my way back, walked in...

I climbed Killington Peak and Shrewsbury Peak on Thursday, and here’s something I just noticed (after transferring my GPS track into the computer): Shrewsbury Peak, near Killington Peak, is not where I thought it was. That is, the named peak is a bump north of the point that everyone assumes is...

I thought I would try again to use my GPS (a Garmin 60CSx) with the Windows 7 computer we have, which would be a lot easier than always having to haul the old XP one out of the crawl space. I installed the Garmin Trip & Waypoint Manager disk, then plugged in the GPS and turned it on. Windows...

I climbed Madiison Gulf Trail last Friday and saw a few red paint blazes, which reminded me of the few photos I’ve seen of the long-discontinued Adams Slide Trail, which also still has some red blazes on it. Which started me wondering why the latter trail was abandoned. Were there any deaths on...

I bought two bottles, one of the treatment and one of the taste-improver, 14 years ago. They’ve never been opened, but as far as I know, they’re still in my pack. Are they still any good? Can I trust them? I haven’t looked at them to see what they look like (or even to confirm that they’re...

Is there an accepted summit for this Trailwrights peak? Or better yet, a sign or canister? The land definitely looks higher west of the trail, but I couldn’t discern a herd path or even any indication at all that people have been fighting their way through the scrub and blowdowns to get off the...

... for $249.93. It’s a great price, but is it a good deal? Not as accurate as the 60 series, perhaps?

What happened to it? Are there so many red-liners anymore that the herd path has become forgotten? I remember the herd path as being very distinct and obvious in 2000, but Monday I tried following it and it just kind of petered out and didn’t really lead anywhere. And the three other hikers...

My GPS is a Garmin 60CSx. At least half a dozen times now recently, and yet again tonight, it has turned itself off while I was walking with it. No, it’s not because the batteries are low in power. I always keep a sharp eye on the battery symbol and when two of the compartments turn white, I...

I took some pictures and shot some videos on Saturday with my Canon G12 camera. Looking at them later on Picasa, I noticed that the time of day at which I supposedly shot the videos is five hours later than when I actually shot them. Why would that be? The last video and final two still photos...

I see that there’s been some flooding around Thornton, at least, with Route 3 through there closed and also both exits (29) off 93. Would anyone here expect there to be any trouble for motorists passing through that area — or anywhere else along the Interstate 93 corridor, for that matter —...