Trail and Mountain names should be posted in thread Title
Date of Hike: 10/12/19 - 10/14/19
Trail Conditions: Some downed trees on Northwest Basin Trail
Special Equipment Required: N/A - no...
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Katahdin, Baxter Peak and Hamlin Peak, via Cathedral Trail, Hamlin Ridge Trail
Trail and Mountain names should be posted in thread Title
Date of Hike: 10/12/19 - 10/14/19
Trail Conditions: Some downed trees on Northwest Basin Trail
Special Equipment Required: N/A - no...
Date of Hike: 10/5/2019
Trail Conditions: Ice - easily avoided. Easy water crossings.
Special Equipment Required: N/A
Comments: Trip Report with photos:...
Date of Hike: 9/21/19 - 9/23/19
Trail Conditions: Very easy water crossings even on Wild River Trail and Moriah Brook Trail; some downed trees on Wild River Trail and Moriah Brook Trail. Lightly...
What relevance does "chunky" have here? It's evidently so important that it's the first thing you listed about them :confused:
Date of Hike: September 13, 2019 - September 15, 2019
Trail Conditions: Dry, wet rock, easy water crossings
Special Equipment Required: N/A
Comments: Trail report with pictures:...
Date of Hike: 11/24/2018
Trail Conditions: Packed snow with a couple of inches of unconsolidated powder in spots. Mashed potato snow. You'll want snowshoes after the junction with the Carriage...
Date of Hike: 11/18/2018
Trail Conditions: Well-packed snow. Snow bridges over water crossings are solid.
Special Equipment Required: Microspikes - essential; snowshoes - useful
Comments:...
Trail and Mountain names should be posted in thread Title
Date of Hike: 10/16/2018 - 10/17/2018
Trail Conditions: Difficult water crossings, downed trees, indistinct trail, high water in boggy...
Date of Hike: 9/29/2018 - 9/30/2018
Trail Conditions: Please enter, specific words to describe the current trail conditions. Muddy, wet, 1 difficult water crossing
Special Equipment Required:...
For those who live in MA, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is showing Free Solo! I just saw it. Really, really well done - highly recommended.
Oh man, just the thought of that experience is giving me chills! I hope you can get your pictures converted to a digital format. I'd love to see them. My only regret is that we didn't have time to go...
Thank you so much Billy! I hiked up with all my water too -- didn't mention it in the trip report, but somebody behind us on the cables left his water at the base and started cramping halfway up....
Backpacking Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
Half Dome is on just about every hiker's and backpacker's bucket list. It's so different from our New England trails (so many switchbacks! so few rocks! but wait, how am I supposed to hike on sand...
Date of Hike: 9/2/2018 - 9/3/2018
Trail Conditions: Muddy; downed trees, especially on Kilkenny Ridge Trail
Special Equipment Required: Water treatment especially for that murky pond water!
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Date of Hike: 8/26/2018
Trail Conditions: Upper 1/3rd of trail is wet, slippery, muddy
Special Equipment Required: Headlamp - essential; lantern - useful
Comments: Full trip report with...
Date of Hike: 8/11/2018-8/12/2018
Trail Conditions: Dry on day 1 (8/11/18). Quite wet, muddy, slippery on day 2 (8/12/18). Water crossings difficult on day 2 but very easy on day 1.
Special...
Date of Hike: 7/28/2018
Trail Conditions: One downed tree; water crossings (sketchy); wet rock
Special Equipment Required: Kinda wished I brought my rock climbing shoes!
Comments: Full trip...
Date of Hike: 7/13/2018
Trail Conditions: Muddy. Wales cut-off/re-route on the way up is not clearly marked; the sign may be missing.
Special Equipment Required: Bug spray - essential
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Date of Hike: 7/8/2018
Trail Conditions: Dry; mostly well marked, but a bit hard to follow for the first 0.7 out of Blackwoods Campground (in the dark, at least).
Special Equipment Required:...
Date of Hike: 6/30/2018
Trail Conditions: Mt. Garfield trail was a bit muddier / damper than usual on the way up, but was already drying up by the time we were headed down. The 0.2mi of Garfield...
Date of Hike: 03/04/2018
Trail Conditions: Hard packed snow. Some postholes, easily avoided. A couple of downed trees, easily walked around, over, or under, even with a full daypack. Water...
Date of Hike: 02/18/2018
Trail Conditions: 6-7" of fresh powder on top of hard-packed snow and ice; on the way back down, the trail was well broken in to the point of being like an ice luge; seems...
Date of Hike: 02/04/2018
Trail Conditions: ICY! (blue and black), deep powdery snow in sections.
Special Equipment Required: Microspikes - ESSENTIAL, snowshoes - useful, crampons - useful
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Date of Hike: 2/3/2018
Trail Conditions: Icy (blue and black ice), Hard Packed Snow
Special Equipment Required: Microspikes (or equivalent) - essential