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The Lincoln Trail is in fine shape now for the spring -- just some wet patches/muddy sections down low. And, yes, the trailhead is always accessible. It's even plowed in winter; we use it frequently then. It's now our go-to approach to the summit to avoid the often-busier Winslow and Barlow...

Some of us hike solo simply because we are misanthropes.

Yes -- done these trails many a time, more often to head up to Carter Dome via the Rainbow Trail. Best to do them in drier conditions, and even better when frozen. It's a treat to see that ridge and Carter Notch from a different perspective.

Don't areas like this contribute, as well, to the potential for fires -- especially as the WMNF has become drier over the past few years? So, managing forest through selective logging/cuts might diminish the possibility of larger blazes?

Using Caltopo, you can set the base layer map to "MapBuilder Hybrid" and see (for instance, Bondcliff Trail/East Branch and Lincoln Railroad) these.

Oh, it's very much picking up today. Not only is it post-COVID, but the 100-year anniversary of the event is being celebrated this year.

Circling back to one of notes made by the OP, regarding Libby's/Saalt and ATLaS -- according to the owners, "We will be offering a few dinners over the summer as well as some ATLaS take-away but only through email and pre-order. We won’t have a wine license. We will send emails with what’s...

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That is one fine trail, once you get up on the ridge, and up through the Crippies. After that, up to Langdon, it loses its charm a bit, in my opinion. We did it a month ago as an out-and-back from the eastern end, looking for a nice snow-free hike, and there was no snow until just shy of the...

Yes -- I heard about his death, yesterday, from one of his (many, many) writer friends. I so enjoyed reading his column over the years. I remember, too, seeing him at a Northern Pass protest in Concord several years ago. (The IndepthNH piece is a good read; thank you for posting the URL to that.)

Exactly. I knew of the term as it was used in the 1930s before I knew of it as applies to the WMG. But then, I grew up in the south, so perhaps the exposure to it was different because of that.

Regarding: 6. In government-regulated institutions such as nursing homes and prisons, COVID-19 continues to rip through, despite strict masking and other requirements. In many of these cases, it's a compliance issue -- masking requirements are not being followed, or if they are, sporadically...

Yup -- and there's the rub. Avoiding dying, after catching COVID, is a worthy goal. But I don't even want to contemplate what life might be like with said post-survival impacts. It's not a risk I want take.

Thank you; well said.

In New Hampshire, virus transmission precautions taken -- and enforced -- are definitely business-by-business. A couple of small bed and breakfasts in the Lakes Region are enforcing a mask-in-all-common-areas rule; others are not. Some flip rooms the same day; others wait 24 hours, like the...