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Saturday was a nice sunny day for a "wintry" trek to the summit of Mt Mansfield via the Long Trail. Conditions were fresh snow and a mix of snow and ice at & above treeline. Parked at the Trout Club parking lot and ascended to Taylor Lodge / Nebraska Notch via the Lake Mansfield Trail, which...

Originally cut out by ski legend Peter Ruschp in the early 70s this trail was abandoned and nature took over. Over the past year volunteers of the Stowe Conservation Commission have been granted permission to restore this cool trail that traverses the top of Sterling Ridge. At one point there...

Saturday 9/14/13 Conditions: cool & wet, socked in above 2600' Parking: Upper Pinnacle lot Trails (1): Stowe Pinnacle Trail to Pinnacle Conditions- damp trail with good drainage, a few wet & muddy spots. Heavy traffic up & down (very popular local hike) with some loud & obnoxious folks...

This afternoon Fisher Cat and I needed to get out so we went for a quick hike up Elmore. Parking at the Elmore General Store, Scott donned his Micro Spikes and I wore my crampons. We struck across windswept Lake Elmore and up onto the Catamount Trail. Picking up the trail to the summit...

A few weeks back I had an opportunity to do some bushwacking off of our adopted trail, the Osseo Trail. My goal was quite basic... not only get a feel for the remote lay of the land but (hopefully) also stumble across some cool things. As an experienced woods worker all my life, I've kind of...

Does anyone out there have a good backpack recommendation for those who suffer from a bad back?? Three weeks ago was a turning point for me when my 38 years of playing and working too hard resulted in two herniated discs in my lower back- my legs were temporarily disabled and the searing pain...

New Evidence of Incline Railway on Osseo Trail! For those curious exactly where J.E. Henry's incline railway was located on Mt Flume I strongly urge you to check out the very gentle grade of the first two miles of the Osseo Trail! With the recent flooding from Irene, in many spots along the...

Today my wife & I were able to get out to the Osseo Trail to check out damages and make repairs. Amazingly the trail held up very well! We opened up several waterbars and removed blowdowns all the way up to the top of the ladders. We didn't have enough daylight to summit Flume :( All in all...

Sunday Pam and I finally got around to hiking Dickey & Welch mountains- we were truely amazed with how open and awesome this area truely is! We arrived to a full lot at noon and opted to hike clockwise (Dickey first) as the masses seemed to be headed towards Welch first as the guidebook...

On Sunday (8/8) i struck out to take care of some previous summer storm damage on the Osseo trail- a hearty thank you to the mystery person who had a small handsaw and removed some blowdown debris from the trail! Took care of all remaining blowdown damage, opened some clogged waterbars, and...

Friday, shortly before midnight, four of us attempted Mt Marcy...DenaliDave and Jason were veterans, but it was the first winter attempt for IndigoSkies and myself. The heavy rains were slowly turning to snow as we struck out onto the Van Hoevenburg trail just after midnight. We opted to go...