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The area near Lewiston, ME is my personal target. 2 hours to White Mountains, Acadia, Boston, and Baxter, 45 minutes to the Maine coast. Housing costs are stupidly low (we're talking under $100k for a house with 3-4 bedrooms and in great shape) compared with anything closer to Boston. When I...

I need suggestions for crampons for hiking boots (no clip-style). I have a pair that are about 15-20 years old. They are terrible. I just used them the other day and I spent half the time outside just redoing the straps which keep coming undone. Besides that, the straps are fraying now and they...

The reason I'm posting this here is that I'd like to find some local hikers who I can hike with here in New England first. I live in Boston and have hiked pretty much everything in NH. This is a trip to see the upcoming solar eclipse in the Wind River Range in Wyoming. My aim for this trip is...

I know there is a somewhat popular loop that starts and ends at the AMC Cardigan Lodge, and involves the Holt trail, then going over to Clark trail to avoid the most sketchy part of the Holt Trail, passing over the summit and on to Firescrew, and then down Manning trail. I've seen a lot of...

I came across this map on alltrails today, when I noticed it features some short trails in what I had thought was the trail-less northern bowl area. The official map provided by the park shows no trails here. Here is a screen-capture from the map I had looked at on alltrails: What I am most...

I think what I might do is a test run the afternoon before. I have a couple hours to spare that day, since there isn't really anything within an hours drive of Eustis I want to photograph that I won't have been to already by then. That way I can also get a chance to see the roads in the light of...

The typical directions say to head north on RT 201 to The Forks, and then turn left onto Lower Enchanted Rd, a logging road that you follow carefully for almost 14 miles. However, I will be staying the previous night at a campground near Eustis. This ends up being a really long loop around the...

Thanks for the previous answers to my question about Thompson Falls (the one near Moat Mountain). I'm probably going there this upcoming weekend. I also want to revisit Glen Ellis Falls. I went here last Spring but found it nearly impossible to photograph from the base due to the spray. What I...

I want to plan a little mini-adventure to find this waterfall. However, it seems to be rather difficult to locate. I am trying to follow directions posted on several pages. They mention following High Street out of North Conway and eventually it turns into a dirt road, which I think is FR 379...

I recently purchased online an annual parking pass for WMNF parking areas. They gave me a PDF that I can print as a temporary pass. The PDF has a color background to it that might (I'm not sure) be related to the month the temporary pass expires on. However, I can only print in black and white...

At the end of September, I am doing a 4-day backpack in Baxter State Park. It will be pretty easy for mileage, with most days only being 5-6 miles. The hike will be a loop going counter-clockwise from the main parking area up to some ponds north of the mountain, and then south over Hamlin Peak...

I'm late posting these... took these back in June: Pink Lady's Slippers, near Wildcat Mountain just off the trail to Thompson Falls And a couple from Valley Road near Mt Jefferson. I have yet to get confirmation anywhere on what the yellow flowers are, but google seems to suggest they are wild...

I know it's a bit early to ask about this, but I need to schedule vacation ahead of time, so I'll need the best estimate I can go with. My plan is to do a 4-day backpacking trip heading north from the main parking area to some ponds, then circling counter-clockwise and heading up over Hamlin...

Valley Road was sufficient. Very much so. I didn't really need a field full of lupines, just a cluster I could get really close to while viewing a scene in the background. At sunrise I visited the fields that were recommended to me, but the rain this morning was pretty much a killer for any...

Just an update with a question... I am planning to do this weekend, probably a Sunday sunrise. I've had Valley Rd in Jefferson recommended to me as a good spot where the mountains will be much more visible than at Sugar Hill. I have looked at this area on Google maps and it appears that there...

I'm looking to get some lupine shots this year with the mountains in the background, preferably as a sunrise shot. I know about the Sugar Hill fields, and there are some other spots as well. I was just wondering if they are out yet. I have been told early June is the time to do it, and this...

Yes, it's a good start. I might just try to put together a list like this myself when I have time.

Yeah, that's basically what I meant... not a list of summits, but routes up summits. That was why I made the point about Chocorua from Rt 16, because it's almost 3k from that side but only a little over 2k from the Kanc side. So the list would be a lot longer than a list of peaks. I guess I...

I googled for this but couldn't find anything. It's easy to find a list of NH mountains ordered by elevation of the summit, but in terms of building up stamina with increasingly difficult hikes (with not too great a gap between each hike), a list of hikes by elevation gain would be far more...

If it is a fee-parking trailhead, assume that you pay the fee, of course. I'm aiming to do a sunrise hike up Chocorua Saturday morning, and if I drive up Friday after work, I don't really want to deal with finding a campground that might lead to me needing to get up even earlier in the morning...