Recent content by Cragster

Karl, Thanks for the reputation on my 4/2-4/3 Cardigan post. I finally uploaded some of the pictures: http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40051 - Craig aka Cragster (Dover NH)

A friend lost his sleeping bag, cinched to the bottom of his pack, on the hike down from High Cabin (High Cabin spur to Clark Tr, Holt-Clark Cutoff Tr., Holt Tr. to Cardigan Lodge). Cardigan Lodge was informed, but we have heard nothing yet. I'm hoping that someone who hiked the same trails...

One of my hiking buddies lost his sleeping bag, cinched to the bottom of his pack, on the hike down from High Cabin (High Cabin spur to Clark Tr, Holt-Clark Cutoff Tr., Holt Tr. to Cardigan Lodge). Cardigan Lodge knows about it, but I'm hoping that someone hiking these trails will find it...

Date of Hike: 4/2 - 4/3 Trail Conditions: hard packed snow under fresh wet snow Special Equipment Required: skins - useful, snowshoes - useful, microspikes or crampons - useful (on summit cone, but certainly not necessary) Comments: well marked trails, no downed trees, summit cone will...

Trails: Manning/Holt Trail, Holt Trail, Holt-Clark Cutoff, Clark Trail, spur path to High Cabin (Sat. 4/2) then past High Cabin and back to Clark Trail past Lookout's Cabin to the summit (Sun. 4/3). Summit(s): Mount Cardigan (3155') Hiker(s): Butlers, Waterboy, Jeremaria, ButlerJr., Artemis...

{Reposted because my original date was wrong!} Trails: Sugarbush's "Gondolier" to "Organgrinder" to Lincoln Peak; Long Trail (out and back) to Mt. Abe. Summit(s): Lincoln Peak (3975'), Little Abe (3900'), Mt. Abraham (4006') Hiker(s): solo My plan to bag Abe & Ellen via their connecting...

Thanks, Mirabela. I didn't see your response until after my hike, but being a Friday, it wasn't a problem. I went right to the bottom of the Super Bravo chair and headed up the edge of Gondolier. Full report here: http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?p=342975#post342975

Planning to park at Lincoln Peak Lodge, take the Mad Bus to Mt. Ellen Lodge, then skin up Mt. Ellen, pick up the LT (South) to Lincoln Peak then out and back to Mt. Abe. Ski down to Lincoln Peak Lodge. I'm hoping that Sugarbush is "ski tour friendly" as Wildcat, Killington, Stowe are--or let...

Thanks to everyone for the trip research help! Click here for my successful trip report.

Trails: Mountain Rd., Eagle Cut Trail, CCC Rd., Sunset Ridge, Long trail (out and back). Summit(s): Mt. Mansfield ("The Chin") Hiker(s): solo Someone had skied DOWN Eagle Cut Trail, but nobody had gone up since this past week's storms. Once I got to the CCC Rd/Sunset junction, I was...

Thanks for the map link. I only have the NH version of the BC skiing book, and the local library did not have the VT version! Thanks for the comparison to put it in perspective. I have skied both Sherburne & Gulf of Slides ski trail several times. My setup is BD Havocs w/ Fritschi Freeride AT...

Hmm, after reading trail descriptions in 3 books, I was set to skin in from Mountain Rd/Underhill S.P. and see how high I could get with the skins. But I will heed your advice. None of the maps in my books showed where the Teardrop Trail was, and only one described that it was near the junction...

If anyone reads this, cannot go, but can provide suggestions on winter-accessible trailheads other than the LT from VT-108, I would really appreciate it. I will plan to take my AT skis for any flat/approach sections and crampons in case the ridge is icy, so any AT/skin-friendly trail...

Sounds like a good quest. I hiked all the 4000'ers in 2009, and about a quarter of them in the winter. I try to take my backcountry skis whenever I can. I succesfully skinned up the backside of Cannon (Lonesome Lake Trail to the sag between Cannon & the Northeast Cannonball, up the ridge to...

Not a big hike at all, but close to home! I had not been up there in years, and the view is good from the highest open platform of the fire tower. The loop trail (from the trailhead on Crown Point Rd) was packed out so well by singletrack snowshoers that you could have barebooted...