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I am headed up to hike next week in Maine. hoping to do Crockers and Redington and also Abraham, Spaulding and Sugarloaf. I have seen lots of questions but no recent trip reports. I have a shutttle driver so was thinking of a traverse over Abraham to Spaulding and Sugarloaf going up Fire...

I just got back from the Maine "6 pack" and was wondering -I had a hard time finding a good "herd path" up to Whitecap. So I decided to look around at the top for a better way down. I found a very used herd path that dropped me onto a very nice four wheeler trail. The trail was new with...

1/14/2012 - Hiked Mt. Hale today from North Twin trail and Fire Warden Trail. Seven of us used snowshoes all day and packed out a nice trail. We met some guys with skins on their back country skis heading up to ski the powder in the glades. The snow got deeper as we got higher. beautiful...

Does anyone know if this road is still open. lastest road status shows that it is. Seems like everyone is using Glencliff trail to summit Moosilauke

Has anyone been up the Nancy CascadeTrail since Irene? Wondering how the brook crossings might be. Thanks

I was asked to post this on VFTT. This was while hiking Lafayette on the Greenleaf trail. We lost a white Pit-Bull mix while hiking Sat. His name is Enzo and is extremely shy. If you spot Enzo, would you contact Linda at (603) 312-3936? The dog is not aggresive, but very skittish. Thanks.

Headed up Blueberry Ledge cut-off following boot tracks. They shortly ended and that is when we put on snowshoes. Broke trail back to Blueberrry ledge Trail. Lots of postholes by a very large moose. One person had been down the Blueberry ledge trail with snowshoes. Lots of snow and...

Here is the problem: I work with a little girl who uses a walker. Last week we put a pair of cut down - downhill skiis on an old walker so she can go and play in the snow at recess with her classmates. The problem is that her dry-land walker has wheels that only go straight ahead and the rear...

12-11-09 Zealand Road is not plowed. There is a set of tire tracks that we used to walk in. It snowed all day today. The wind was not really a factor. We wore snowshoes and broke trail all day. About 1 foot of snow at the start and about 2 feet of snow at higher elevations. Cinder had fun...

Used microspikes all day - there was a combo of mud, ice, snow, running water. Surprising how much snow is still in Crawford Notch. Beautiful sunny day with no wind. Our first time on this peak and we all enjoyed the day. Nancy, Joe & Cinder

Started on Signal Ridge Trail. Brook crossing required stepping on rocks with some water going over them. Carrigan Notch Trail, again brook crossing was a little difficult with most rocks having some water going over. The bushwhacking wasn't that difficult. There are a lot of birches and...

We are proud to say we made it to the sumit on the first attempt. We headed down the Carrigan Notch Trail until we came to a big rock. Was this the boulder everyone mentions in there reports? We didn't see any obvious trail but headed in at a spot that looked good. The bushwhacking was...

After bushwacking in the wet woods our backpacks were very dirty. So we googled "How to wash a backpack" and got some very useful information. Since they wouldn't fit in the washing machine, and I have a front loading machine, we had to opt for the bathtub. But if you can fit your pack in the...

Toady we went back for our second attempt. After we failed, we went home and studied the map and made a new plan (we knew where not to go!). Much quieter today as the mountain is shut down until ski season. We found the herd path easily and headed down. We started the bushwack earlier than...

Light snow encountered at 2000 feet and 1-2 inches on the ground after 3.000 feet. No traction needed but the trees on the bushwack were only too happy to dump their snow on us. Very wet wack but beautiful warm, no wind sunny day. Joe, Nancy & Cinder

Well we thought we had done all our homework. We read all the posts and studied the map and were ready to go today. We hiked up the access trail to the Gondola House on the summit of Loon Mountain. Then up the Sunset Trail to North Peak. We found the herd path to Black Mountain very easily...

Cinder and I were hiking up the Stairs Col Trail from the Rocky Branch Trail today and noticed a lot of Lady Slippers along the trail. But they were white!! I wondered if they had been pink and just faded but there were also pink ones along the trail. After googling white lady slippers it...

Trail Conditions: Up the Davis Path was bare ground til around 2,00-2500 feet elevation, then there was quite a bit of snow/ice in the middle of the trail. After spending considerable time trying to avoid the snow/ice I decided to put on microspikes and just walk wherever. Once to the rock...

First day of school vacation and I was hoping to get this winter 4K in . It would be nice to have a few companions (beside Cinder) along. Starting from Rocky Branch (doing bushwacks) - weather permitting.

Trail Conditions: Packed powder up to treeline. Above treeline a mix of deep drifts, ice and exposed rock. Equipment: snowshoes were used and then crampons were used and then back to snowshoes on the way down when back to treeline. Thanks to all who used snowshoes as the trail is nicely...