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Oh thanks. I'm typically tele skiing on old High Society free rides; i forget the exact dimensions but probably about 120 100 110 more or less. It's an alpine ski on which I've stuck a pair of hammerhead bindings; I mostly use them for lift-served, but from time to time I'll slap skins on and...

Hi. All I got for Christmas was a bathroom scale and an umbrella. As such, I feel entitled to buy some gear. I'm a pretty good telemark skier, but I want to get some skis that are XC-oriented, so I can ski some more rolling terrain without having to put skins on and off. I was kind of thinking...

Hi - Question: are there little weather monitors (e.g., thermometers, anemometers, and the like) tucked away on the peaks in the White Mountains? Or other places? If you google just about any place ("Mt. Moosilauke weather," "Mt. Osceola weather" whatever) There's a little google box that...

Hi Folks! First - on the subject of quinzees - I've done a lot of nights camping out in quinzees with success! You need not get soaked while building one, but the trick is to only attempt it when the weather is pretty cold - that way the snow you're crawling around in won't get you wet, and...

Hey Folks - I know that according to the rules camping above treeline is allowed as long as there's 2 feet of snow. I have always wanted to do this. Has anyone here actually done it? Candidly, what I'd like to do is dig a quinzee up on some peak. (They're warmer than a tent, sturdier than a...

Is the Grafton Notch lot being plowed during the government shutdown? It should be, as that's a Maine state park, right?

do you have any reason to believe Success Pond Road is passable in my wife's Subaru??? I've never done winter trips there because I never wanted to show up and find I couldn't get down the road. (Short of buying a snowmobile, what I should be doing is getting a pulk and upping my XC skiing...

I want to do a simple out-and-back from Grafton Notch and winter camp at Speck Pond. I've been up Old Speck a bunch of times in winter, although it's been a looooong time. I remember once trying to hike down to the Pond, and things got nutty steep, and I lost the unbroken trail, wound up...

Jay has two achilles heels in my book: a) really far for a weekend, and b) no hot tubs. I'm not interested in a water park - I'm trying to get away from kids, not be surrounded by them! I finally got off my butt and called about this - nearest hot tub to the mountain is about 15 minutes away at...

I haven't skied this year, and haven't even given any thought to skiing this year. That means that other than a general sense that there's no great snow anywhere, I really haven't followed any ski conditions. However, I have the weekend free. Where in New England (striking distance from...

on the map they're listed as "north branch" and "south branch". I'm pretty sure I took "south" (i don't have the map in front of me, but it was a left turn after the campsite). The other branch was roped off with a 'closed' sign. incidentally i was at this spot once in early 2010, and once in...

oh thanks - but i was camped at a designated spot.

were you up there this weekend???

I have some old plastic Koflachs from the 90s. They're so clunky though to hike in - i really only break them out when I'm reasonably certain I'll be in crampons for most of the day.

I recently returned some nearly 10 year-old patagonia pants to the newbury street store because a zipper was busted. I was hoping they'd send them off and fix the zipper, but the guy said "take any pair of pants you like" and they sent me off with snazzy $600 Super Alpine bibs! I haven't worn...