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Mt Tecumseh Trail is in good shape. Trail corridor is well defined and easy to follow. Trail has a dusting to about an inch of new snow. First mile is very icy, microspikes made walking easy and we wore them for the entire hike. Left snow shoes at home, never needed them. Temp was about 5 at...

Hiked via Webster Jackson Trail. Trail is excellent shape, trail corridor easy to follow. Snow is minimal at 1 to 3 inches on trail. There is a thick coating of ice under the snow for most of the hike. We used microspikes most of the way and switched to crampons for the last quarter mile to the...

AMC is looking for volunteers for it's Mountain Watch Program. If you would like to receive additional newsletter updates (4x/yr), or would like to sign-up as a Mountain Watch volunteer and receive a monitoring packet e-mail [email protected]. They are adding a mid-elevation “Forest...

I'm planning a trip to Durango Colorado in late May. I'll be doing some hiking and backpacking in the San Juan National Forest and Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park. Has anyone been out that way that can suggest things or places I should be sure to see or do while I'm there? Suggest...

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I have some AA rechargeable batteries and I suspect one or two of them are weak and do not fully recharge but I'm not sure how I can test them or isolate the one or two poor ones out of many good ones. Does anyone know how to do this?

I'll be hiking the Mt Kinsman Trail to N Kinsman (or South too if someone needs it) tomorrow for a winter tune up hike. I'll probably get to the Rt 116 Trailhead around 8:00. The pace won't be fast as I'm just coming off a foot injury. Anyone interested? It will be a good day weather wise (I...

Here is a short article that was on WEB MD today http://www.webmd.com/content/article/130/117869?src=RSS_PUBLIC