Recent content by David Metsky

Yup, closed permanently with no expectation of ever reopening.

When your forum isn't even worth spamming, you know it's not very popular.

It was maybe 2 or 3 spam posts a week, but very sporatically. If they were magnets, they were pretty weak ones.

Let's be honest, they were dead. And they had been dead for a long, long time. Other sites have more traffic and more engagement.

Good times.

Same reason the Moosilauke summit shelter was removed. It's the foundation a few 100 yards down the old Gorge Brook trail, not the summit foundations.

Also lots of good glades alongside the Teardrop.

From the Facebook post: > *Be aware that some of these roads are not managed by the WMNF.

https://www.visitwhitemountains.com/articles/post/history-made-the-mt-washington-auto-road-paved-top-to-bottom/ For those in the Boston area, there are a few additional variations available https://www.jessehaley.com/category/bumper-stickers

They violated public health rules during COVID and got slapped down. Everything that happened to them was self-inflicted.

Fundementally, they're the same thing. Practically, tree wells form around the trunks of large trees that people fall into. They don't typically involve the branches. Spruce traps (in the East) are entire trees hidden under the snow with the branches holding up mostly unsupported snow. They...

Saddleback uphill policy - https://www.saddlebackmaine.com/uphill-touring/ Sugarloaf uphill policy - https://www.sugarloaf.com/uphill-access Wildcat uphill policy - https://www.skiwildcat.com/the-mountain/about-the-mountain/mountain-info.aspx All three mountains require uphill pass purchases...

I don't think so, we really didn't know about each other until both sites were fairly well established.

The intro to the LNT section even says the following:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/whitemountain/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD1049455