Recent content by chuck

You can still hop your way over the puncheons. The boardwalk is one of the best blueberry picking spots in the area. There are nice stands of Atlantic white cedar on the east side of rt 24 in I think Randolph and down further south... north of Lake Nippenicket also nice stands of really big...

Yellow tint sun glasses. I have tried safety goggles but they fog up too much on me.

Really amazing - congrats

Well at least it wasn't a Big, Big Fire less than 10 feet from the stream. (kidding) Sounds like a nice area I would like to check out.

Can someone get some comparisons on Mt. Washington on different weather categories vs. another Mountain or spot and compare more like Grouseking's post. "Worst" could mean Average wind , temp etc... but it could also mean highest/lowest temp, wind etc... not just comparing averages.

Just saw this from Florida "By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 34 minutes ago PENSACOLA, Fla. - After spending months in remote northwest Florida swamps searching for the ivory-billed woodpecker, researchers say they have seen and heard the rare bird once believed to be...

I can't remember what exactly he wrote but the author Bernd Heinrich in "A year in Maine Woods" and "Trees of my Forest" wrote about how and why trees put out seed some years and some years they don't. Sometimes holding out for a long time. Its mysterious but well regulated (if thats...

Interesting I have not seen a bear nest. I have seen claw marks on beechs off the Dicey Mill trail in the bowl.

Seems to be a lot of beechnuts out this year (Or maybe I am just noticing them more) Has anyone ever actually seen a black bear up a beech tree trying to get the nuts. We saw a mother black bear and two cubs on the ski slopes at loon on Sunday around noon.

I have stayed in the huts a few times, when I was kid, then with friends and then with my kids. But I mostly back country camped when overnighting. My kids like both. I do understand what Matt is writting but I think the huts and Pemi are good the way they are right now.

Good Idea thanks Chuck

Maybe tubing on the Pemi River this weekend with the family. Has anyone seen it this week is it really low? Does it look tubeable. Thanks Chuck

"No Pack Goats Allowed"

I agree no don't do the short cut.

up top I stay off the grass, I have done some rock hopping over the grass though ... after a while got a little sloppy and new it was wrong so went real slow back and stopped doing it. I Think overzealous is probably a good idea here. Its funny you walk miles through the woods to get there...