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Beautiful shots, congratulations to you and your group!

Via Jewell and Gulfside. Jewell is broken but soft, snowshoes are still essential. We switched to spikes above treeline. Three people, one dog, an outstanding day all around! A full screen slide show of the above shots can be seen here. Thank you for looking, Jonathan

Wow, thank you both, very kind indeed, and much appreciated! Happy holidays to all, Jonathan

The Observatory's Higher Summits Forecast called for a good day for hiking, including "partial undercast early." On that particular detail, they underpromised and overdelivered! :D A magnificent day to be up high. Slideshow on Zenfolio (14 images) Jonathan

Thanks to all for the kind comments! Much appreciated. =) Amicus, I absolutely agree about Doubletop. It's a spectacular hike, particularly at this time of year. We last did it in October 2015. Our original plan for this year had been to hike it on Sunday, the day after doing Katahdin, but...

Oh, she has a very good camera, and does quite well with it!

If I didn't have to work for a living, I would spend most of late September and early October in Baxter State Park, every year, as long as I'm on the right side of the daisies. While I'm not able to do that (yet), I still feel very fortunate to be able to make at least one trip there every...

We had a terrific five-night backpack in Baxter State Park, 9/22-9/27. Our itinerary was as follows: Sat 9/22 - Roaring Brook to Russell Pond Sun 9/23 - Russell Pond to Wassataquoik Lake Island Mon 9/24 - 2nd night on Wass. Lake Island Tue 9/25 - Wass. Lake Island to Davis Pond Wed 9/26 -...

A few shots from our recent five-night backpack in the spectacular Gros Ventre Wilderness. We discovered this route in Douglas Lorain's book Backpacking Wyoming. Our itinerary: Day 1 Sat. 8/4 - Granite Creek Trailhead to Jack Pine Creek. Flight delays meant we couldn't get to our originally...

Thanks for the kind comments! Mud was not an issue, there was still plenty of snow left even at lower elevations.

A spectacular bluebird day, not a cloud in the sky! We were glad we brought our snowshoes.

Black "Fujifilm" lens cap dropped Sunday 3/11/18 somewhere between the two Osceola summits. PM me please OR email jtrundell at yahoo. Thanks!

Our ascent and descent routes had been cleared of blowdown and are now easily passable. We heard from other hikers, but did not personally see, that Air Line was still in bad shape. A big THANK YOU to the two RMC maintainers that we met on Watson Path, and to all who have worked to clear...

The item has been found. Thank you to all who helped.

Please contact me by phone if found, thank you! Jonathan (207) 272-0151