Recent content by Snowflea

Good. If it is definitively under 4000 feet, nothing against Tecumseh which I grew to love, but I hope it is out. None of this "tradition" namby-pamby BS. Facts matter. The truth matters. Snowflea (3.5 time WM gridder)

I haven't checked in here for... forever, but my weird accomplishment of 2020 was staying mostly local (NEK Vermont) and cycling, running, or walking every dirt/gravel mile of road in my county (Caledonia). With out-and-backs, it was over 1000 miles. Also was able to knock off a one-day...

Yes, I was near you, on Burke Mtn. It was pretty snowy and blowy!!

Gene was such an interesting person! Had the pleasure of hiking with him just twice. First time was his 1991 Boundary-Whitecap Labor Day weekend hike. (Kennebago Divide and the other Mt. Snow were not yet on the NEHH list.) We stayed at Cathedral Pines Campground, and I remember Gene...

Something a little odd I noticed yesterday. We did Monroe, Washington, and Jefferson via the Ammo-Jewell “loop.” Parked in the USFS lot but then walked up the road to access Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail at the Cog. The fee box was on a pole at the Cog’s hiker parking ($10 per person :D). Upon our...

>> I think Roy S had actually been to the registry of deeds and pulled the applicable deeds. Roy May have done it. So did I. There are a couple different rights of way. Probably a moot point since the WMNF decided against pursuing the matter and “closed” the trail so many years ago. I do...

When gated, you can still climb the Osceolas via Tripoli Road - and I highly recommend it - but most hikers don’t like to walk that far. :rolleyes:

Strange indeed. Read the book a couple of years ago and was particularly interested in the theory regarding wind and low-frequency sound waves so did my own research and I discovered that the University of Hawaii has an “infrasound lab.” (See https://www.isla.hawaii.edu ) As someone with a...

Since the 48 have been done in under 4 days in summer and under 7 in winter (under 5 and just over 8 myself, respectively), the least number of days to do the Grid should be around 66? 78? At least under 100 days given somewhat cooperative conditions. After I completed the (still only) Jan-Dec...

12-14” of heavy, wet snow at 850 ft. in NEK Vermont. Still snowing...

You may like the mountains in my “backyard,” the Willoughby Lake region of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Specifically Wheeler Mountain and Mount Pisgah.

NH? Blasphemy! :D My contribution was an old “See Vermont” era VT plate. Spencer, I used to run 100 miler ultras regularly so have had many adventures in the 16-32 hour time range.

In the Whites about 28 hours doing a winter 13-peak Pemi Loop, including Owls Head. Lots of trail breaking. Outside the Whites ~32 +/- hours at Hardrock 100 x 3 and Barkley x 2.

Yes, I remember taking certain “writer’s liberties” in filling out those applications in the mid 90s. :D

Green Mountain Club has a couple of cabins at Wheeler Pond in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont: https://www.greenmountainclub.org/about/gmc-rental-cabins/wheeler-pond-camps/