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Here's David Goodman's fresh telling of the tragic climb: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/29/magazine/an-ice-climbing-disaster-on-mount-katahdin-a-race-to-save-lives/.

NOTE: The trail to Boundary Bald Mtn. is currently only open on Saturday and Sunday. It is closed Monday through Friday while they make improvements to the road to the trail head that runs along the South side of Boundary Bald. (The road was navigable by a Honda Accord all the way to the...

Spread from mice to humans via deer ticks, Babesiosis is now endemic in the Northeast. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/health/babesiosis-tick-disease-northeast.html

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/30/business/appalachian-mountain-club-names-nicole-zussman-ceo/

Jack Murphy, a 22 year-old NOLS student from Boston, was killed this past Tuesday by a lightning strike while camping at Enos Lake in the Absaroka Range in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The group were all at camp in the lightning position when Murphy was struck. Another student was also...

East Inlet Road has recently been graded all the way out to Boundary Pond Road, which has also been graded. The entire road is currently navigable by any car. I was driving a Honda Accord, but my old low-clearance Civic would have been fine.

It's been a while since I've used the Zealand trailhead. Do I assume correctly that it typically fills up on weekends? If so, by what time?

Roy, is this from 1977 or 1979?

The USGS topo shows four peaks on Big Attitash with 2,900' contours, the Forest Service map shows only two, however based on trip reports it seems like the easternmost peak is the accepted summit. Is that correct?

A hiker was found after being lost for two weeks in Zion National Park as the result of a head injury. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/zion-park-hiker-found.html

I found a lens cap near the summit of Morgan Mt. last week. PM me if you think that it might be yours.

If you are looking for an easy hike to reach to reach an exceptional viewpoint, then I would highly recommend Mt. Oscar. It is especially good for late-afternoon/early-evening viewing, as the primary views are to the Southwest. I stumbled upon Mt. Oscar & the view that it offers quite by...

The late bushwhacker & VFTT member of some renown, Bill Bowden, once described Mt. Cushman (3,221') with those words on this forum. So it was with some excitement, & perhaps a little trepidation, that we—my friend, Jeff, & my brother, Ben—anticipated our first hike of yesterday in the Hubbard...

Jennifer Pharr had some musings in the New York Times yesterday about the disappearance of a gender gap on long-distance hiking trails when it comes to FKTs.

Update on the above report: The 0.2 mile point that Bryan describes above is at a fork, there is a gated road on the left and the currently grassier road to the Vickie Bunnell Preserve goes right. There is a small turnaround/space to park just below the gated left fork. NOTE: between this fork...

The spur path to Waternomee Falls, on the unmaintained western half of the Carr Mountain Trail is easier to follow than guidebooks and TRs led me to believe. There is a sign at the trail junction and the path is light, but obvious. A helpful tip that fellow hikers shared with us today is that...

Here's an article that might be of interest to those of us who hike the Northern Frontier: http://www.7dvt.com/2013why-there-slash-trees-u-s-canada-border The part about the "substantial fine" may or may not strike fear in the heart of peakbaggers. As for me, I've always thought that Pres...

It went well, thanks. Arm joined me for a four-peak binge (Noth Loon, West West Scar, Middle Scar, East Scar), & East West Scar thrown in for good measure. We found some thick stuff on the summit of East Scar--a "shitstorm" according to one entry in the summit log. On the descent of East Scar's...

I'm thinking about doing a traverse of Scar Ridge on Saturday from the ski area to the East Pond Trail, and would like to do a car drop. Anyone interested in joining me?

Per the request in the log, I'm reporting that the canister is in good shape, if a little awkward to use. The logbook is full.