Recent content by Biji

When hiking these four over two days, another option is to car camp at one of the free designated sites along Coreys Road, and drive to the trail head each day. That adds about two easy miles to the total, but you're only carrying a day pack, and there'll be ice cold beverages waiting for you...

So for a mere $450 you can eliminate a 10 mile approach hike and all but 1,000 ft. elevation gain? Credit card bushwhacking at its best. I suspect it's just this sort of thing motivating that vandal in the Whites who inscribes a dollar sign on the AMC's trail signs.

Date of Hike: 18 JUL 2014 Trail Conditions: Glen Boulder in fine shape. Bog bridges in the sag on Davis Path deteriorating but still keep you out of the mud, just watch out for a couple of teeter-totters. Isolation E has a couple of blowdowns to straddle. Wet areas on Iso E and Rocky...

Date of Hike: 17 JUL 2014 Trail Conditions: Trails dry, no mud worth mentioning. Stony Brook crossings easily rock-hopped. Special Equipment Required: Nothing in particular Comments: Perfect weather. No pesky bugs. Mountain laurel still in bloom on Mt. Surprise. Blueberries still a...

Thanks for the pointer, peakbagger. I see among the lens options they have bi-focal types in various diopters for us old timers living with presbyopia. Was almost ready to pull the trigger on a pair from a catalog outfit in Maine costing nearly 10X as much. You saved me!

Date of Hike: 30 JUN 2014 Trail Conditions: Lincoln Woods to Black Pond dry. Black Pond bushwhack distinct at both ends, sketchy in the middle, but dry. Lincoln Brook in good shape, some mud in what I suspect are the usual places. Managed to rock-hop all crossings, carefully, with (mostly)...

Date of Hike: 29 JUN 2014 Trail Conditions: Hi-Cannon dry. Ladder rungs wearing but solid. Kinsman Ridge to Lonesome Lake Trail dry. Upper Lonesome Lake had some mud, easily rock-hopped. Around Lonesome Lake boardwalk high and dry. Lower Lonesome Lake dry. Special Equipment Required...

I is for Imp Face. On my second trip to hike the Whites, I went up the N. Imp Face Trail to the Carters & Wildcats. I assumed the Imp Face was somehow limned by the ledges, like the departed Old Man, but I didn't see any resemblance. Couldn't figure out why two divergent trails had the same...

Feldspar LT is a nice spot with good tent sites and convenient water. Stayed there twice, going in from Heart Lake and past Lake Arnold. Given your Day 2 mileage, you might try Skylight & Gray in the morning, return to camp for lunch, and give Redfield & Cliff a go in the afternoon. With this...

Note that there were two bridges. Chris's photo shows the second. Last December when I climbed Santanoni the first bridge had been removed, and I understand the second has now been demolished. As Chris said, mind the weather report and you should be fine.

Well done and congratulations! That's an impressive March. My father used to say "in every adversity is the seed of a greater benefit."

The adkhighpeaks.com forum has 3 TRs on the Santas from this week, which might be helpful. Today, 3/21, is the last "official" day for 46-er winter list credit, and a few people indicated taking them today, so there might be some fresh beta in a day or two. No one has mentioned having...

Can't speak to your specific question about Goretex vs. NeoShell. My experience with Goretex is the same as yours - sweat locker - but when you need a hard shell you need it. Spent 5 days this winter in the Adirondack High Peaks wearing a Marmot ROM (M2), which sold me on the soft shell for...

I always carry the 10 essentials. Maybe the BSA's "Be Prepared" mantra hasn't faded from this old Eagle Scout's memory, unlike a lot of other things. The only ones I've never had occasion to use are the whistle and fire starters. After reading the thread prompted by the Brown University...