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These boots are known as "Bunny Boots", and they are still used in Antarctica. The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) has a Clothing Distribution Center (CDC) that has a number of them for the use of science and support personnel when out in the "field". I an actually finishing up a...

What frosts me (slightly), as a bird watcher, is inappropriate or downright wrong bird songs in movies. Interestingly enough some of the best birdsong in a movie/series was Ann of Green Gables. Some of the birds may have been a bit north of their range, but they were all possible and all from...

Alas, the price has jumped up to $80 for us seniors.:mad: The justification is: "The additional revenue will be used to enhance the visitor experience in parks." https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/senior-pass-changes.htm

Siblley's is the definitive reference work for difficult identification, rare birds, plumage variations, weird hybrids, and out of range birds. But because of its completeness it is huge, confusing, and unwieldy. The Peterson guide is much better for the casual birder and intermediate birder...

Definitely a yellow-rumped warbler. A very nice bird but not too rare for a warbler. Still all warblers are wonderful. The Audubon guide, or any guide with photos, is dreadful. It is almost impossible to use. The best guide is the Peterson guide since it lines up similar bird with arrows...

Here is the thread from last year: https://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?59544-Carpenters-Ridge-Mt-Lincoln&highlight=Mt.+Lincoln The name of Carpenter's Ridge sounds like a good name for it. It would be an interesting climb.

Oops, I made a mistake. The guidebook is from 1898, not 1989! My bad. This guidebook has been digitized and is available online in various places. You might be able to find an original in an antiquarian book shop or via ABE. It does indeed seems like an intriguing hike; you would have to...

A LIDAR map of the area would be really interesting. LIDAR can penetrate the forest canopy and might show ground features such as old logging roads. I am not sure if LIDAR maps are available for the Franconia range, but it seems as if other areas of the Whites have been mapped according to...

Ah, very nice. I noticed a lot of faint linear features in this image that are roughly parallel with the main slide up to the Throat; I wonder if those are old logging roads....

I am not sure of your compass orientation, but for me the gorge would be on the right when going up the south branch of Walker Brook. I don't doubt that it could involve a horrendous bushwack to get to its base and then the real difficulty would start (the gorge is probably technical and wet in...

In researching the gorge on this ridge, I came across (thanks to Steven Smith and Mike Dickerman's The 4000-Footers of the White Mountains) this interesting account of a rather spectacular and now lost (to logging) trail up the west ridge of Mt Lincoln. It is from Carpenter's 1989 Guide Book to...

Here is Fay's description of his rather bold and dangerous descent of this gorge. I have probably made mistakes transcribing this so please refer to the original account in the May 1881 Appalachia journal for the most accurate account: ---------------------------------------------- In making...

Here are some more pictures; hopefully you will be able to open them. https://plus.google.com/photos/109828380515452735174/albums/5347373280549011937?banner=pwa&authkey=CN7d-cLs56i9hgE

Here is a picture of it from the Greenleaf hut. The Throat is in the middle, above my son. The gorge is on the right.

Does anyone know about the gully that runs north off the west ridge of Mt. Lincoln? This exposed gorge is clearly visible from the Agonies along the Old Bridal Path up to the Greenleaf Hut and from the hut. This is not the Throat on Lincoln, or the other slabs on the west slope of Lincoln...