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I may have left my camera on the bumper of my car when I drove out of Sawyer River Road after hiking Vose Spur yesterday, June 9. it's a purple Pentax optio. I took tons of bush whacking pics -- I pray someone finds it! wowser

Our 100th It’s Not About the Hike presentation is coming up and I want to mark the moment. I ask our Facebook fans for ideas. I think about what the number 100 means to me – it’s easier to eat 100 calories than burn them off (not helpful). I call the Highland Center to see if they can make a...

Hi everyone -- Pat Piper and Nancy Sporborg will be giving their 100th presentation of It's Not About the Hike at the Highland Center in Gorham, NH, this coming Saturday, Jan. 28th at 7:30 p.m. If you are in the area, please join us and help us celebrate! The hour-long presentation is free...

This is a story of connection. It is the thing I want more than anything else in the world, yet it is also the one thing I protect myself from, holding everyone at arm’s length so I won't have to feel the very connection I yearn for. This is the story of strangers who were able to melt away my...

Stats Mountains: North (4,180) and Middle Tripyramid (4,140) Date: November 8, 2009 Time: 8.5 hours Miles: 9.6 Steps: 38,567 Elevation Gain: 3,450 Weather: Warm, blue skies, windy where exposed Trails: Pine Bend Brook Trail, Tripyramid Loop and back “I think we are drawn to dogs because they...

Stats: Mountains: North (4,180) and Middle Tripyramid (4,140) Date: October 31, 2009 Trails: Livermore Trail - North Slide You know how dogs turn around and around and around to get themselves in just the right position, their cozy nests just perfect, then they plop down on their beds, lay...

Stats: Mountains: Mts. Zealand (4,260), West Bond (4,540), Bond (4,698) and Bondcliff (4,265) Date: October 23, 2009 Time: 16 hours Miles: 20.4 Elevation gain: 5,000 Steps: 67,564 Trails: Zealand Trail -- Twinway -- Bondcliff Trail and back “If you live the life you love, you will receive...

Stats: Mountains: Mts. Galehead (4,024) and Garfield (4,500) Date: October 12, 2009 Time: 8.5 hours Miles: 13.5 Elevation Gain: 3,848 Trails: Gale River Trail -- Garfield Ridge Trail -- Garfield Trail On Saturday I receive an e-mail from Pat telling me she had hurt her knee and would not be...

Today is different. Today I am giving an extra gift to me – Sam. Sam is my nephew and Pat and I are bringing him up his first mountains. I do not know Sam well, but the fact that he is in my life at all is a blessing. I am adopted. As an adult with a growing family of my own, I searched for...

Stats Mountains: Lafayette and Lincoln Date: May 9, 2009 Time: 8:10am – 5:15pm, 9 hours Weather: Temps in the 60s, cloudy, windy and cold on top, pretty dark and threatening with sunny breaks coming down the ridge, warmer as we descend Miles: 8.9 Elevation Gain: 3,832 Steps: 24,402 Trails: Old...

Hi VFTTers ... This hiking journey, climbing the hundred highest in New England (only 12 left!) has changed our lives. We know many of you understand that. You have all been on your own incredible journeys. Climbing the mountains has helped us connect with how important it is to share our joy...

Stats Mountains: Mendon Peak and Killington (4235) Date: November 1, 2008 Time: Mendon – 9:15 a.m.- 2 p.m. – 4.75 hours Killington – 2 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. – 3 hours 40 minutes Weather: cloudy am, sunny pm, breezy, temps ranging from 30s to 50s Miles: 14.8 Elevation Gain: +4,030 Mendon Trails...

Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont has been such an intense experience with so many extremes, superlatives, learnings and peak experiences. I have never lived in the middle. I've been out there on the periphery most of my life in one way or another. Not the outer...

Stats Mountains: The Bigelow’s -- Avery Peak (4088), West Peak (4145), South Horn (3805) Date: October 25, 2008 Time: 8:30 am – 5:50 pm – 9 hours 20 minutes Weather: Cloudy, temps in the low 30s, wind 15 mph, 8 inches of snow near the summits Miles: 12.3 Elevation Gain: +3,583 Trails: Fire...

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi “Internally, we are divided against ourselves; the emotions want one thing, the intellect another, the impulses of the body yet another, and a conflict takes place which is no different in quality, although it is in scale...

Stats Mountain: Dorset Peak (3,770) Date: August 30, 2008 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. - approximately 4.5 hours Weather: Cloudy, humid, 60's Miles: 6.3 Elevation Gain: +2,400 Steps: 18,007 Trails: Woods roads and ATV trails “Live for the journey, not the destination.” Coleen Sykora “The only...

Pat and I are hiking Madison via Howker Ridge Trail on Thursday, July 31st, and are hoping to find a ride leaving from the Highland Center to Howker Ridge Trailhead earlier than the shuttle (shuttle arrives Appalachia at 10:50). Anyone going our way? Nancy (Wowser)

STATS Mountain: East Baldpate (Elevation 3,812) Date: July 5, 2008 Time: 9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. – 9 hours Weather: Sunny, passing clouds, light breeze, 70s Miles: 10.9 Elevation Gain: +2730 Steps: 32,921 Trails: Appalachian Trail I’m writing this on Friday morning, July 11th, the day...

Stats Mountains: Sugarloaf (4250), Spaulding (4010) & Abraham (4050) Date: June 21, 2008 Time: 8:30 am - 9:05 pm - 12 hours Weather: Partly sunny, temperature in the 70s, a threat of rain for moments on Abraham Miles: ~15 Elevation Gain: +3,699 Steps: 45,633 Trails: Up the ski slopes of...

Stats Mountains: South Crocker (4050), Redington (4010) and Crocker (4228) Date: June 14, 2008 Time: 8:47 am – 7:15 pm – 10.5 hours Weather: Sunny in the am, clouds in the pm, 70s Miles: 11 (8.3 without Redington) Elevation Gain: + 2008 without Redington Trails: Appalachian Trail and a...