Recent content by mhobbs

I left in my bunk at the AMC Zealand Hut on Sept 16.

Date of Hike: 10/19/2016 Trail Conditions: Dry to wet, but not /that/ wet. Lots of leaves have fallen and a couple of blow downs Special Equipment Required: None Comments: Beautiful fall day, 50 degrees at the summits, but very windy. 35mph sustained and 50mpg gusts. Had both summits to...

Date of Hike: May 11 2016 Trail Conditions: Very wet and muddy. Lots of downed trees. The water crossings weren't difficult to get across. The first signs of snow were around 3100' but it wasn't enough to put the spikes on. The last 2 miles of the hike including the spur trail were the...

Date of Hike: 12/26/15 Trail Conditions: Very wet in the lower sections. Dry in the upper and summit. Special Equipment Required: None. Waterproof boots I guess. Comments: Beautiful day, 45 degrees at the base, 23 towards the summit. When we got above treeline is was 35 in the sun and no...

I may just take you up on that. Let me get back to you. I'm going to make a trip to REI probably tomorrow, if they don't have anything I will contact you. What is the length on them? I'm a 42 waist and 30 length.

Can anyone recommend a company that sells hiking pants, more specifically, soft shell pants, for fat hikers? With all the hiking I've done, I should have lost weight but I haven't. I need size 42 pants and I seem to have trouble finding them. EMS doesn't sell anything over 38" waist. I've...

Found on 9/19 as I was doing a road walk from Nineteen Mile Brook Trail Head to South Imp Trail. The poles were just past the parking lot of Nineteen Mile brook trail on the side of the road. Looks like someone maybe leaned them up against their car and then drove off. You can PM me here or...

Some great info here, thanks guys. It sounds like I made a good decision buying trail runners over boots. As far as inserts, I have custom orthotics that my podiatrist made for me. I'll give these brooks a go and see how they work out!

So I'm in the market for new boots and I decided to try a pair of trail runners. I saw "hiking shoes" at EMS, tried on a few pairs but didn't like them. I ended up buying a pair of Brooks Cascadia 10. I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are on boots vs trail runners. I know there is...

Date of Hike: Sept 27, 2014 Trail Conditions: Dry. A little muddy and wet near the parking lot but it's not bad. Special Equipment Required: None. I used fingerless gloves for the first time when climbing the caps. I should have gotten gloves a long time ago for rock scrambles. Comments...

Just an update. Jefferson was awesome! Cap Ridge Trail was incredible! Climbing up the caps wasn't to bad with the crowds. The summit looked like I was hiking Monadnock. It was a bit hot today but I shouldn't complain as we won't get many more of these days this year. Also, on the way...

Hmm... I will have to give this some thought this evening. I would think most mountains this weekend will be busy with the foliage and warm weather all weekend.

I didn't see any recent trail reports for Mount Jefferson so I thought I would ask here. I'm planning on hiking Cap Ridge Trail this weekend. It's supposed to be beautiful weather, 75 on Sat and 81 on Sun. I've recently seen some pics of Washington where some ice is starting to build up...

Date of Hike: 7/17/2014 Trail Conditions: Below treeline was wet with a few blowdowns. It did rain for 2 days prior to this hike. Special Equipment Required: None. Gloves would be good for the boulder field but not required. You may want poles for the tablelands but anything below that they...

Tonight! Leaving shortly to head to the Whites.