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A tree surgeon once told me that even healthy oaks shed a lot of branches, mostly smaller ones from my experience. I spent beaucoup bucks having 18 tall white pines removed from my property over concern that some of them had potential to cause serious damage should they fall against my house...

I think that Hancock Notch Trail is one of those trails much easier to snowshoe or xc ski in winter than hike in summer.

Excellent article. Thanks for posting. Cannon Mountain has had at least two solo skier fatalities on the Upper Ravine Trail. Both skiers accidentally crashed off trail deep into the woods but were not found until the next morning.

I remember how talkative the fire tower ranger was on Croydon when we visited, as he rarely had visitors, unlike Hal Graham at the Belknap fire tower. Someone needs to do some digging for the original agreement from a hundred years ago to provide access to the Croydon summit once per year.

Seeing all those spindly and snow-laden trees, I was looking forward to seeing your hammock strung up, which must have challenging, caffeine or no caffeine.

I always wanted to get back to Croydon for my wNHcountyHP list. 🙂

I have not kept up, so would not be surprised. I think that there was some pressure on the previous managers to have an open date each year because it was written into their original charter or something. Also, as they had some wild boar escapes in which gardens and lawns of locals were...

It just occurred to me that I have been in a similar situation on annual, one-day, x/c ski traverses of the Pemigewasset, Rte 302 to Rte 112. Inevitably in some years we would have some really slow skiers, who could not even keep up to share the trail breaking, and I usually volunteered to wait...

The main question that I have is did he lose his boot while post-holing off trail while carrying snowshoes on his pack? See the Moosilauke thread for more on bare-boot post-holing and whether wearing snowshoes on one’s feet is easier than carrying snowshoes on one’s back, in which the jury here...

I should have been more specific than “recently” and written 2-3 years.

I think that several have died from post-holing in the Whites recently, and last month we almost lost two more who post-holing in spruce traps even with snowshoes trying to descend Jewell Trail in the dark.

This Doubletop opportunity reminds me of Mount Croydon, Sullivan County’s high point in NH. Croydon lies within a private game reserve, Corbin Park, with a tall, 35-mile-long, chain link, perimeter fence to make Irish elk and Russian boar available for hunting by the 31 landowners. The Blue...

Yeah, thought the same thing about this thread when I read kwelch’s NETC report in which “cutting the corner” on the way back to Jewell Trail from Jefferson and the prevalence of spruce traps are also noted. I have often heard these folks tell me that it is easier to carry the snowshoes on their...

Nice excerpt. The entire book most worthy of a read, and probably her latest book also, which I have not yet read. I first met John Bragg at the AAC’s Tetons Climber’s Ranch in 1972 on the day after he made the second ascent of the Lowe’s complete Black Ice Couloir - West Face of the Grand route...

I have no idea what your last sentence means, which seems like a random word scramble to me.

That avalanche gully is still there although it is beginning to grow in with veg on the sides. Still need to traverse with care, especially during shoulder season without deep boot steps or snow trench. Similar to the rock slide traverse below the gully near the top of the trail up East Osceola...

Another fine video! Well done, Seth. I felt like I was reliving one of my own winter ascents of Wildcat A in similar snow conditions. Trust that you and your viewers recognize the south face of Carter Done as a gigantic landslide scar, probably dating to the waning of the Last Ice Age, which was...

Oops, sorry, thanks, yes, Losing the Garden.

I have not recently chimed in on the snowfall discussion, but I think that we may be comparing apples and oranges here. The snowfall data like that reported at the Burlington, VT, NOAA site are from hourly measurements in a large calibrated can with flaps around the top edge that are then summed...

Cinema Gully is wicked avy-prone, especially at the base where the wider face above funnels wind-drifted snow into the narrower recess, like a terrain trap for back-country alpine skiers.