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I think you are starting at Pinkham Notch. There is lots of overflow parking on either side of RT 16 immediately south of Pinkham Notch. Worst case is park at Wildcat and walk the 3 tenths of mile south to Pinkham I seriously doubt that will be needed. Things are a bit tighter at the Cog...

I agree on Jefferson Notch Road, My bad. Sad to Say it my be legal but its lousy place to camp. Most of the new sites are actually drainage run outs so whenever it rains, the occupants get wet.

Last time I visited it was a "zoo" with some minimal "no camping" signage at a few spots along the road but sites everywhere along stream. The porta potties have been there for a few years but I would still be real careful walking. I think sometimes the FS just writes off an area as not worth...

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Looking at the news and river gages, the heavy rain stayed just north and west of the whites. The commercial strip in Littleton was under water and the same with Saint Johnsbury.

Looking like its staying north of the whites (so far) but the areas just north are getting hammered.

I ran into a similar situation several years ago on Moosilaukee that could have turned into a similar headline. I think I posted about it but here it is again. A friend and I decided to do a hike from Tunnel Brook Road via the Benton trail up to the summit and then north to the upper Beaver...

1 to 4" of rain predicted in 4 to 5 hours in the whites this afternoon. The Beryl track is well north of NH but this type of weather pattern can still hammer the whites with water. Probably not the time to go visits the backroads of Pittsburg.

Over the years these hurricane "remnants" that make it up west of NH tend to on occasion gets stalled and put out very large amounts of rain leading to lots of damage. VT normally gets the worst of it but the whites sometime does. It will usually clear out in 12 hours but anyone out there will...

Drones are already being used by various state agencies. I think FIsh and Game has an underwater drone that is used for looking for underwater objects including bodies. They have access to helicopters with "heat vision" as well as drones used to locate lost folks, typically children or elderly...

Ultimately hiking trails really have no advocates in the state government. The state department of tourism will spend a lot of money putting out glossy brochures and TV buys featuring stereotypical families with stereotypical kids on various summits accessed by hiking trails and the state will...

I generally recommend getting water from the brook that follows the Mahoosuc trail before the spur path to the Pond. Not sure if that type of mine has issues with long term acid mine drainage. It was a pegmatite deposit rather than the sedimentary type deposit sulfide mines that are infamous for...

I have never seen any rules against it. AMC had to switch from surface sources of water to ground water about 25 years ago to avoid the testing required to meet the surface water requirements so that should not be an issue with respect to the upper and lower lakes. AMC's contractor had to fly...

I would suspect that you may want to bring a salt shaker with you to assist with the removal of leeches that tend to reside in many north country ponds. Then again I suspect it used to freeze the bottom in winter so that might limit the population.

Welcome back. My standard blurb is that the site has been around for a long time and lots of info in old posts. The Forum search function is not great, it if far better to let google do a site search Site:VFTT.org search terms

If in doubt bring Unimog ;)

Glad you had fun and had a chance to do the Butress Trail. Logistically it is not easy to dayhike and therefore doesnt get a lot of use despite it going through some great terrain with interesting views of the Great Gulf.

Sorry but I havent been introduced to the person behind the curtains who makes it run.

There are lots of moving parts to this one ;) If you want the background keep reading otherwise skip way down to the link. The Mahoosuc trail in Gorham for many years was a far more pleasant walk on a rarely used gravel road and then over the actual power house then onto the Hogan Road and then...

Sounds like things have not gotten better since my hike the year after the Moriah Brook Bridge was removed. The trail does not need to be maintained, it needs to abandoned in sections and rerouted. Rocky Branch trail had similar issues (but not as severe) after the year of the big washouts yet...