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I'm toying with the idea of doing an extended backpacking loop this fall. The plan is to exit Baxter State Park towards Katahdin Lake and then follow the International Appalachian Trail north to Matagamon Campground. From there a short road walk to re-enter Baxter State Park and return. Does...

The rumors are running a muck over in Barnjum that another of it's citizenry is on the verge of completing the New England 3000 Footers! Speculation, rumor, innuendo... the locals are in a tizzy!!

Monday, May 11, 2009 Bold Coast Trail Topic: Backpacking The Bold Coast Trail is a 10 mile loop located in Cutler Maine. The trail winds along the Atlantic coast for almost five miles of dramatic cliff-bound hiking. Think Acadia National Park without the crowds! From the parking area along Rt...

Saturday 2/14/09 Al Dwyer, dRitter, and I will be attempting a Sugarloaf, Spaulding, Abraham traverse with car spots. Al will be celebrating his finish of the Winter NEHH list on Spaulding, and there might be a beverage or two at The White Wolf afterward. I assume anyone interested in joining...

All right, I did it again. Last Sunday I left my hiking poles along side Rt 16 after hiking E Kennebago. Everything else managed to find it’s way back into my car. Two winters ago I left my snowshoes behind in the parking lot of a local bird sanctuary after enjoying first tracks on new snow...

Date of Hike: 01-17-2009 Trail Conditions: 19 Mile Brook trail solid like a sidewalk. Carter Dome Trail packed out but softer. Carter Moriah Trail from Zeta Pass -> N Carter Tr -> Imp Tr -> Joe Dodge Lodge logging Rd was untracked. No significant blowdowns, all minor stream crossings easy...

01-02-09: Cupsuptic Snow. -10 degrees to start, slightly warmer at the summit. 01-03-09: S Crocker / Reddington / N Crocker, -5 below & strong winds on summits 01-04-09: N Kennebago Divide / Whitecap, -10 below & stronger winds on summits. All flagging removed. Good trip Al, docross, dritter...

Does anyone have recent beta on the Tim Pond / Wiggle Brook roads in Maine? Are they plowing them this year? Looking to 'whack Cupsuptic Snow. Thanks!

This last weekend while 'whackin from Tabletop over to East Tabletop one of my Microspikes failed. One of the rear stainless steel flex-chains pulled through the "tough" elastomer shoe harness. Eventually the other end of the chain separated from the spike and fell off. This did not result in...

Markie Mark (aka Rollie, mhrsebago, etc) & I finished up the VT 3000 footers this weekend. On Sunday we did BLUE RIDGE MTN (N PK) BLUE RIDGE MTN (S PK) CAPE LOOKOFF MTN GILLESPIE PEAK (WHITE ROCKS) and on Monday MT TABOR SALT ASH MTN GREEN PEAK (MT AEOLUS) LUDLOW MTN (E PK) LUDLOW MTN (OKEMO...

BERLIN - An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday. story here

Wow, Jim Barnjum (the whacker formally known as Gamehiker) & I set out from the Discovery Trail head at 8:10 am Saturday morning. Our plan was to bag the 4 bitchcocks that I needed. Somewhere along the 'whack the topic of doing all 5 came up and the rest is history. We started out looking for...

Rollie and I approached these 2 peaks from Rt 118. While not the shortest approach to Kineo, we took what mother nature had to offer (a ton of snow) and made the best of it... We started out following / 'whacking the Hubbard Brook trail from 118. Along the way where many water crossings that...

My first 'whack of 2008! Wow, it had been over a month since I've bushwhacked... started withdrawal symptoms. Detox is agony. I needed this 'whack!! :eek: Left the Sawyer River Road trail head around 7AM with HikerDock, DocRoss, dRitter, and 6 other hearty souls. If I started jones'in before...

Date of Hike: 01-12-2008 Trail Conditions: The logging road from Rt 27 to the Summer trailhead parking area has been packed out by snowmobiles... as is the "trail" to Snow Pond. I broke trail from the pond to the summit. Hard frozen water soaked snow the whole way. Special Equipment Required...

"Steven Wright, the 53-year-old deer hunter from Vermont who spent nearly three days lost in the woods surrounding Tumbledown Mountain near Byron (Maine) this week faulted his Garmin Extreme GPS unit for getting him in trouble." Lewiston SunJournal article here.

Any ideas where to camp this weekend in the Burke / Umpire / East Haven area of Vermont? Looking to car camp somewhere in the vicinity. I checked out the State Parks but they are all closed for the season. Does anyone know if your allowed to camp at a VT State Park "out of season"? I've done it...

hiked, 'whacked, came home, posted.

Man, what a Labor Day weekend! Marchowes bags 7 3000 footers, Albee does 16!, skimom's into it for a 6pack, and I'm over in VT doing 8. Rumor has it that the Man in Orange was spotted thrashing about NH, and an OJI-Barren-Owl traverse took place! A 451 completer recently expressed to me his...

Any suggestions for car camping spots near the New Boston trailhead in VT? Nothing fancy required, just a place to pitch a tent for the night without getting hassled.