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Flip focals. They go on the brim of your cap. Flip down to read or tie on a small fly. Cost about $20 and work fine for me.

To Snow Mountain you usually can make it in a car unless it is extra muddy or snowy or the gate is closed. You have more choices if you just need Boundary. The traditional southern approach that uses the border swath. While the border crossing road is closed below Porter Brook. You can access...

As I understand it the number of tags are not the problem. Their are plenty of tags to go around. The problem is there are not enough decent hunters that actually manage to fill their tag to reach the needed cull number. The kill to tag issue ratio keeps going down and that is the problem in...

Caribou Pond Road is usually the road in best condition - Average hiker can get Sugarloaf, Spaulding and Abraham in one day and its a real nice hike. Ending at a cold brook. Uber hikers utilizing the bushwhack from the Mt. Spaulding shelter can get the Carrabaset six pack in one long day. Fire...

I have been around this loop twice in the past year. Like most people I think it is the best hike in the NE. The trail is almost completely on rocky surfaces save for the initial climbs and final descents. We hiked once in sketchy conditions and were caught in a drenching thunder storm just...

Off the top of my head which has nothing on it so expect nothing. I seem to recall reading on a printed paper in the age before the internet that it was referred to as unnamed peak. I then saw Boundary Peak when reading Mohammad's internet accounts but about the same time I saw a photo with the...

Completed the NEHH with Marie Fukuda on Saturday morning. We had been sitting on 99 of 100 for over 4 years and finally things came together for us to reattempt this hike. We started out from a pull out on porter brook road at 6:30 AM. Fortunately it was cool, damp and overcast. The bugs were...

Or fees could be increased at least $25 per category and make the program self-sustaining again. I believe in paying for the resources that I use. The link goes to the present fee schedule. https://wildlife.state.nh.us/licensing/prices.html

Just random additions: For me the key to priming the white gas stove is to just turn the gas on for the slightest moment. The usual fail is to allow too much fuel into the cup. If you do then you get a time of uncontrolled burn that leaves ash/soot and gets on everything. Really you don't need...

I like your first thought but start at Arethusa Falls Trail, Go up Wiley, Tom then down to Zealand. You can camp around there are Thoreau Falls area or wherever you like. The next day down to wilderness trail and get the Bonds and stay at Guyot or nearby. Next day is out via Zealand and Thoureau...

Certainly you will have wet feet in the notch if it is raining. Likely have wet feet if it is dry so.... I prefer to come in Mill Brook and use Unknown Pond Trail but have done it once via brunell notch.

If you don't want to hike with others go where they ain't. The most people I have seen on a hike this year has been 8 in one day but I am certainly like Peakbagger in that I am willing to drive more to get my nature hike in. When I was schlepping the Presi and Pemi area it was 1999 - 2000...

Why not carry a baby bic? Much lighter than a steel and when wet makes just as many sparks. I include it in my compass and map ziploc bag.

You have to traverse the notch if you do the Carrigain - Hancock loop. I think sucking bog describes it well. Sucked my boots off twice I was a muddy mess. Glad it was on the return to Sawyer road. Ha, thanks for the memory. I had forgotten that day.

I think you already have the answer but you just don't like it. :) I have an early OR bivy from the 80's so the opening for the screen and vent is very limited compared to the newer ones. So I carry a silicon nylon tarp (4x6) that I rig into a canopy over the head opening of the bivy sack so I...

I have not done this loop in a few years but I used to park at the Flume and make it a large loop starting up the flume and down by the AMC hut (can't remember the trail name) Lots of parking at the Flume and doing the route this way avoids a lot of the crowds. Now I tend to hike another open...

AMC guide to Massachusetts covers all of these "trails"

The Arch bridges on the West Branch of the Westfield River. Access it near Chester . Just a nice old toll road that runs along the river. If you want a view try Alander and Mt Fissell. Nice this time of year but with the Laurel about to bloom there will be hoards of bees on the ridge that is...

So if they get the road fixed up you can almost always find a spot at wild river. Or at least I have always been very lucky there. It is a long ride up a one way road to find out so I think it deters a lot of folks. You can also simply park at the campground and hike in a bit and find a legit...

The program is run just like the licensing for hunting or for fishing in every state in the union. A license is good for the calendar year. I doubt that will ever change.