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    Southeast Mass folks...

    What I found was that the trail is still there, and is still being actively maintained. In fact, if the guide hasn’t been updated since 2009, I suspect that the main reason is because not too much has changed since then. From what I saw, it still pretty much follows what is described in the...
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    Southeast Mass folks...

    With that in mind, back in January I set out to hike the Warner Trail. Since I was traveling solo, each day had to be an out and back walk, so that I could finish at the car at the close of each day. Thus, it took me four days to cover the entire 33 mile trail (which I basically hiked twice...
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    Southeast Mass folks...

    In any case, since I was interested in hiking the Warner Trail, when doing my homework, I found that there was a dearth of information online regarding this path. I know the Friends of the Warner Trail maintains this website, Warner Trail, where an online trail guide is provided. But...
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    Southeast Mass folks...

    When looking into the Warner Trail a few months ago I found this thread. I think I originally heard about this pathway from the seventh edition of AMC's Massachusetts & Rhode Island Trail Guide (which is the only copy of the Mass. guide that I currently own), which came out back in 1995. Back...
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    VFTT Patch

    I was looking up some things just now, and I stumbled across this thread. I know this discussion dates from years ago, but what happened after this conversation left off? Were those remaining VFTT decals ever sold? Was that second batch of VFTT patches ever produced?
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    Ice Question

    Towards the end of last week I had the chance to do some hiking in the western half of Mass. At one point, I wanted to take a shortcut across a fair-sized lake. Having been in southern Vermont the previous weekend, I saw how similar-sized lakes still had a good amount of ice on them, so I...
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    RIP Maine Woods National Park - Wilderness protection to multiple use

    By the way, this topic even came up in the New York Times a couple of months back: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/a-national-park-for-maine-proves-a-hard-gift-to-give.html?_r=0
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    Is Mill Brook Road still open

    Having visited Mill Brook Road a couple of times within the past year, I suspect that there is enough logging activity going on in that area that the road's gate has been removed (as well as due to the camps that are located further up the road). If there is any logging going on this winter the...
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    100 mile start Monson Question

    To add to Tomcat's post, having been in this area recently, I found the easiest way to get to Barren (especially when coming from Monson), is via Elliotsville Road (which is the well-marked road that goes to Borestone Mountain). Starting your odometer where Elliotsville Road departs Route 6/15...
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    Deasey Mountain

    I recently made a return trip to Deasey, and found things much changed since I was last there five years ago. These days the best approach route is via Stacyville, as the roads coming in that way have been repaired and the Whetstone and Sandbank Stream Bridges are both open to vehicular...
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    Whitcomb Mountain (NH) Fire Tower

    Andrew, this tower is in decent shape, so I didn't have any concerns when climbing it. It's in about the same condition as the Milan Hill tower.
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    Whitcomb Mountain (NH) Fire Tower

    For those who have, or are in the the process of visiting all the fire towers in New Hampshire (including ones that aren't maintained by the state) are probably aware, one of the most elusive fire towers still standing in the state is the one on Whitcomb Mountain, since it's not depicted on the...
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    Sam Drew 1518' & Pleasant 1374' (Maine)

    Jim, I second Roy's post. Chandler looks like an interesting mountain, one of the last decent ones before the land flattens north of Baxter. On the topos it looks like it has a nice open summit, but in the satellite pictures it looks like it might have gotten overgrown subsequent to when the...
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    Middle Osceola & Mt. Osceola

    Paradox, thanks for the trip report and for getting the register pages from Middle Osceola dried out and returned. When I was up there at the end of July, all those pages were a soggy mess back then too. I felt bad about leaving it there, but during short stops on the summit there's not much...
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    Saddleback, Pennington, Peaked (Aroostock County, ME) 9/26

    Jim, thanks for the trip report. I have fond memories of traveling The County around this time of year, having Quaggy Joe to myself, and being able to score large bags of potatoes from roadside stands, with the Aroostock hills rolling off in every direction. Since rain has kept me in the...
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    Leroy (3030') and Tumbledown (3588') 6/10/07

    Dennis, when I originally read this post, I thought you were talking about one of the 3120' bumps just west of Tumbledown. Do you actually mean the bump just east of Leroy? I ask too because over the weekend I walked the ridge between Leroy and Tumbledown, and along the way I checked the two...
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    Number Five Mountain

    Christopher Keane is an outdoor guide from Greenville who wrote the book "Northern Woods Walks." It acts as kind of MMG for the greater Moosehead/Upper Kennebec Valley region. This book might not have wide distribution, but is readily available around Moosehead (I picked up my copy right in...
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    Number Five Mountain

    In Christopher Keane's book Northern Woods Walks, he gives a route description for reaching the fire tower on Number Five Mountain (which is southwest of Jackman). Here are my suggestions for revisions for the directions to this trail: From Jackman, drive twelve miles south, and you'll see...
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    Williams Mountain (Moosehead Lake Region)

    Over the weekend, Marc and I visited the fire tower on Williams Mountain in Maine, which is about halfway between Jackman and Rockwood. Using Christopher Keane's Northern Woods Walks as a guide, I now have the following suggested revisions for reaching the trailhead: First of all, the book...
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    Non-MMG Peaks

    For the map that came with copy of the MMG I have, it shows all the trails that go up to summits (at least all the official ones), but there's some other nature walk type trails that aren't depicted (mostly in the southern part of the park). Plus, now that Baxter has acquired land around...
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