Recent content by sophie bean

I can't imagine Redford and Newman doing "Walk in the Woods" but anyway... I liked the book and love the movie. I thought that Krakauer's account was interesting, but Penn has such a great understanding for the human condition and is a great storyteller. I can (vaguely) remember being in my 20s...

Mari, thanks for the notice about your book - I'm going on an extended camping trip with a bunch of friends next week and it sounds like just the thing for a fun evening around the fire! I had heard about the witch in Alton. A while back, 'bcskier' wrote: "Does anyone know about the mysterious...

Great stories, please add more! I need to watch the ghostly video, but I'll do it at work where I've got a faster connection. It seems like the Whites would be a "good" place to find ghosts, if ghosts exist, if only because so many have perished in these mountains. I've always found Glen Ellis...

I'm glad to know that Rt 113 is open through the notch - thanks!

While feeling some sort of vague need to scare myself semi-witless before this season of hiking and camping, I stumbled across this post from a while ago by Snowbird22: "I have head about ghost stories in Whites.... People being swear there being followed hearing footsteps but nobody there...

"It's very unlikely. Her car was found on Rt. 112 about ten miles west of where the AT crosses 112 in the Kinsman Notch." Right. Unlikely, I agree, but not impossible. How far was Randall Smith, who murdered a couple on the AT in 1981, from where he shot the two fisherman, when he crashed their...

Hm, a trail where you can't bring your dog for protection AND women report feeling "stalked"? Interesting. Well, there's always pepper spray...

This is a great thread, thank you, Solitary! It sort of jumped out at me that at least two women here feel that they have been "stalked" on Monadnock. I'm curious if others have had that feeling or experience. I find that very specific and I wonder if it's significant?

I should clarify - I don't know Maura personally, but her family speaks of her having a history hiking in the Whites. It doesn't sound like she was hiking when she went missing, though it's possible. Her car was found on Rt 112, though, and that road crosses a pass high near Lost River, and I...

Sorry about your situation, Paradox. Caribou Pond Road is bad at almost any time, but right now? I doubt that it will be passable for at least a couple of weeks. I certainly wouldn't count on being able to get up there any time soon - I was in Stratton a week and a half ago and it was snowing...

I haven't been here in a long time - working full-time and frankly not hiking much. Someone posted the link to this thread from Maura Murray's site - the young woman who went missing in Feb 2004, whose car was found in Swiftwater NH (not far from where the AT crosses Rt 112). I am so grateful...

As far as I know, the case is still unsolved. There was a tiny bit of publicity when it first happened, and within a month, almost nothing. It has been suggested that she was murdered by a client or someone holding a grudge or something because of her practice as a therapist. I never found that...