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    Sawyer River Rd will be closed to vehicles for 2024 until further notice

    According to the press release above, the road is currently closed and will remain so until repairs are made.
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    Sawyer River Rd will be closed to vehicles for 2024 until further notice

    On March 20, 2024, the WMNF Facebook page issued the following announcement: If you’re planning to recreate in the Mt. Carrigan or Sawyer Pond area you should be aware Sawyer River Road in Bartlett, NH is closed to all vehicle access due to storm damage. A heavy rain event in December 2023...
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    Short film about Harvard cabin: "The Caretaker"

    FYI, there's a thread for movies, so folks can go to just one when they are looking for something to watch: https://www.vftt.org/threads/netflix-has-some-new-mountain-movies.55575/
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    Winter - Enjoy what is left of it

    The Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Race in Fort Kent, ME has been canceled for the first time in three decades due to lack of snow.
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    Winter Trail Running and Negligence

    I took some time off last week and backpacked with a friend up the Garfield Ridge Trail to the campsite, then over Guyot, and finally down over the Bonds. While waiting for my buddy at Lincoln Woods to spot cars, a young woman came up to the car parked next to mine. Late 20s / early 30s...
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    Fatality on Mt. Guyot

    If this young man had set up a tent, warmed up water and ate dinner, and got into his -20 bag, he quite likely would be alive today. I do believe there is rhyme and reason to survival, and it has little to do with a "will to survive" and everything to do with carrying the gear you need to get...
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    Fatality on Mt. Guyot

    Thank you for this, TEO. This poor young man's last hours were sheer terror and regret. They were not "doing what he loved"; just the opposite, it was his worst nightmare. Can we finally put that ridiculous statement to bed once and for all? If he had been given the choice that morning in...
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    Winter Trail Running and Negligence

    Allow me to put my lawyer hat on. Negligence is the failure to act in a manner a reasonable person would do.
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    Mild Winters

    NHPR article (When El Niño and climate change collide: What it means for a New Hampshire winter – New Hampshire Bulletin) When El Niño and climate change collide: What it means for a New Hampshire winter By: Hadley Barndollar - January 11, 2024...
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    2023 Grid finishers

    Thank you both! When I started hiking and first learned of the Grid around 2001, there were all of a handful of finishers, and even the idea seemed so unattainable as to be something we talked about laughingly. I kept a journal mostly just to remember the hikes and the people I did them with...
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    2023 other Grid lists

    "New England 100 Highest Grid" 2023 "None" "New...
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    2023 Grid finishers

    Ed Hawkins has released the 2023 Grid finishers, along with other lists. Never thought I would finish the Grid, but after 20+ years, this was the year I did so. Brian # # # Grid Finishers 2023...
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    Netflix has some new mountain movies

    In December 2023, Patagonia Films came out with a wonderful half-hour documentary called "Range Rider." Free, on Youtube. The movie follows a young gent who is hired, in effect, to be a shepherd, staying between cattle and wolves on public lands. It is stunningly respectful to all sides of...
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    adventure books for 17-yo girl

    Wonderful book that won a Banff Centre Award recently. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41810276-rough-magic Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race 19-year-old woman from England races in a Mongolian horse race, which she wins. The book is simply...
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    Netflix has some new mountain movies

    I feel like it has to go on-line at some point. I feel like they started filming this over a decade ago. Given the star of the movie teaches at MIT, I would imagine it would have some showings in the Greater Boston area.
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