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This was done as a counterclockwise loop. The total distance was about 5.7 miles. Trail conditions were mixed due to recent rain that fell atop a snowpack, and then was followed by a sustained period of below freezing temperatures. There was a definite need for some type of traction device...

The Cross Rivendell Trail (from the Baker Road trailhead) was in excellent shape. There was evidence of recent trail maintenance. I only hiked a short segment of Mt. Cube Trail to connect with the North Peak Slide Trail. Both trails were in overall good shape. Throughout the route, there...

This was my first time to hike Round Mountain. It was a delightful surprise! For whatever reason, the Maine Mountain Guide (10th edition) doesn't include this hike. However, it is described on the Maine Trail Finder website (click HERE). The trail is very well maintained. Although it is...

This trail is one of the best maintained trails that I've hiked. Water bars are in great shape, the trail is well-blazed, and the corridor is very well brushed out. Not much more you could ask for! And to top things off, there is now a defined pathway with a complete line of cairns that lead...

The trails to these two ledges were in excellent shape. However, it should be mentioned that although the trailhead is located right on Rt. 26, it is a bit obscure. On the day of my hike, the only indication of the trailhead was a rather rudimentary handwritten sign stuck into the ground on a...

The entire Mount Will Trail was in good shape. This is a nice little hike that can be done as a 3.25 mile loop which includes both the North Ledges and the South Cliffs. The open ledges and cliff tops provide views of the Androscoggin River Valley, as well as some standup views of Puzzle...

This trail was in excellent shape. Well blazed; no water crossings; no blowdowns. This trail is a ridge walk, and doesn't really lead to a peak per se. However, it does provide several extremely nice views along the way, including features within the notch itself, such as unique rock...

Trails used: Brook Trail; Tumbledown Ridge Trail to West Peak; unofficial trail to North Peak No maintenance issues with any of the trails. The unofficial trail to North Peak was a bit 'fuzzy' in a few spots, but after all, it is unofficial! Don't know for how long this will be an issue, or...

There were no maintenance issues on this trail on the day of my hike. It's a minor issue, but the current edition of AMC's Maine Mountain Guide spells the name of the street used to access the trailhead as "Curry", and it states that you drive 0.7 miles on this street to the trailhead parking...

There were no maintenance issues on this trail on the day of my hike. If you use the Maine Trail Finder website, be aware of one typo. The website currently lists the hike as being 2.4 miles round-trip. It's actually a 4-mile round-trip hike (as is correctly stated in the current edition of...

15-September-2013: Recently, Steve Smith posted a report on his Blog about a trek to Mittersill Peak and Cannon Mountain via a new hiking route on the ski trails/service roads of Mittersill and Cannon ski areas. My hike was a loop of Cannon Mountain and Mittersill Peak using the Kinsman...

This trek was done as a loop beginning at the trailhead on Pinkham B Road. The outbound leg involved walking a portion of the Pine Mountain Road to join up with the Ledge Trail, and then hiking the full length of that trail, plus a small segment of the Pine Mountain Trail. For the return leg...

Hiked to the summit of Mt. Monadnock via a counterclockwise loop-hike of just over 6 miles using the following trails: Hinkley; Harling; Cascade Link; Spellman; Pumpelly; Smith Summit; Ampthitheatre; Smith Connecting Link; Cliff Walk; Parker. All the trails were in great shape and well-marked...

Helped the Shelburne Trails Club with routine maintenance of this trail on August 29th. Overall, the trail was in pretty good shape before the maintenance. Now, it is in even better shape! At the lower end of this trail, the corridor passes through an area that is sometimes filled with tall...

This was a 4.8 mile loop which involved hiking the following trails: Burnt Meadow Mountain Trail, Twin Brook Trail, and Stone Mountain Trail. All of these trails were well blazed and in excellent condition! Within the past few years, the Maine Chapter of the AMC, along with assistance of...

As part of a trek to off-trail destinations within the Nash Stream Forest, I hiked 1.6 miles along the unnamed trail (described in the White Mountain Guide as a "connecting path") between Christine Lake and the Bald Mountain Notch Trail. Since there are only infrequent reports about the...

The trail was in very good shape. There were no blowdowns, and all water crossings were easy to negotiate. This is an awesome hike in the Vermont's Northeast Kingdom region! Photos from this hike are at my BLOG.

_ Regarding the Nancy Pond Trail, I only hiked to the other side of the crossing of Nancy Brook at 1.6 miles from trailhead. That segment of trail was in great shape. However, Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 did some damage to the Nancy Brook crossing mentioned above. And actually, an AMC crew...

I only traveled about a one-mile segment of the Hancock Notch Trail as part of a varied trek that included a couple of different destinations (details and photos are at my BLOG). A short distance from the parking area for the Sawyer Pond and the Sawyer River Trail, there is an old logging...

This trek began and ended at the Saddleback ski area where I was staying at a condo. I used the well-worn pathways along the Gray Ghost and Tri Color ski trails to reach the Saddleback ridgeline. The Appalachian Trail was used to hike between Saddleback Mountain and The Horn. As would be...