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I've been wanting to do andother pemi and today was the perfectday!8:15 start,ran out to Bondcliff trail in 45 minutes.Hiked up Bondcliff trail,greeted by amazing views all over.You could see forever today and it was warm in the alpine zone.Brief stop,then ran over to Bond until it got steep.Ran...

Resuming my quest to run the 48 after I got derailed in October ............ My original plan was to do a pemi run today but by the time I got Glen off to school and went to the town hall I realized it was too late and picked Carrigain. Calves were a little tight out of the gate but by the...

On Saturday Ryan ran the traverse(including Pierce) in 5:07:44.He asked me to post this and will post a more detailed report with splits tomorow.Another tremendous personal accomplishment.

After much suffering,training and perserverance Ryan has raised the bar a notch:7:05:32. This is a tremendous personal accomplishment and milestone, and only the begining. After spending the night camped off the Hancock Notch trail, we knew good omens were abundant when at Lincoln Woods we...

I'm currently looking for a roomate to share my house with.It's a nice new house in a unique country setting (private neighborhood in the forest) and I'm in the process of getting a divorce and I don't want to sell. You would get a nice large bedroom with views of the forest,full run of the...

All this recent rain has allowed me some time to sort through and upload several months of images.Viewing these images is a nice reprieve from blackfly season.As Richard Christy would put it ,these are my FAVORITES. First 2 are courtesy of ferrisjrf...

Wildcats Polecat to ridge barebootable, as was the ridge,quite firm.Some may prefer light traction. Tom,Field, Willey Trails up from Highland center firm and barebootable.Mt tom spur,Willey range trail to Mt. Field are also firm and no traction needed.From Field to Willey is on the more...

After an excellent hike I returned to Ferncroft and found out my car and another hiker ,who I had seen on the way down, car had been broken into.The theives apparently knew what they were doing becuse they popped my doorlock in with hardly making a dent.The other car (much nicer than mine) had...

Blueberry ledge trail up,across the ridge and up Passaconway and down Dicey's Mill.Barebooted the first section until the climbing begins.Wore snowshoes the rest of the way.Trails in great shape,nice soft spring snow.The ledges were soft and sweet.Some good 'shoein between the peaks.Dicey's Mill...

7 dwarfs to Lincoln Woods:Firewarden,Lend a hand,Twinway,Bondcliff and Wilderness plus the hike in from 7 Dwarfs. Firm to start early in the morning,getting slushy later in the day.The snow was transforming from crusty,frozen and very hard to more spring like conditions.It was neither for most...

Cabot Bunnell notch to KRT. Hard packed trail,couple inches powder on top.I started with microspikes and took them off due to snowballing.Finished ascent bareboot and descended(ran) without traction as well.The snow was perfect,firm underneath and just enough fresh to make it fun.All the...

This was a beautiful trail however the conditions were hardly ideal.Frozen rock hard and postholed down low giving way to slightly softer surfaces with the new snow up high but still badly postholed in sections.Not too bad near the summit. Made for tough 'shoein, barebooted most of the way down...

Glencliff trail to Carriage rd. Down low mashed potatoes becoming firm up high,icy above treeline.Wore snowshoes the whole way.Trails in great shape. Tried to get a little bit later start hoping for some afternoon clearing, and did we get it.The groups we encountered on the way down said high...

Greeley ponds trail trail well packed.Mt.Osceola trail well packed with a couple inches of powder to start,becoming increasingly drifted on the ridge.Wore snowshoes the whole way.There was alot of postholes from prior traffic but on the way down the trail seemed in pretty good shape,plenty of...

Lonesome Lake,Fishin' Jimmy and Kinsman Ridge (to N and S) are packed highways.Kinsman ridge trail over Cannonballs was only partially broken out by a couple of hikers,but still managed to make very good time through this section.Kinsman ridge trail up Cannon is one long butt shaped trench,there...

Lower 19 mile Brook rock hard ,above junction with Carter Dome trail partially drifted in.Carter Moriah trail from the notch to Zeta pass broken out,some drifted areas made for nice 'shoeing, otherwise packed powder.Over South and Middle broken out(not as much) with lots of drifting and fighting...

A couple snowshoers had broken out an alternating footprint on the trail which had frozen rock hard making for a bone jarring ride.Especially hard on Carter's paws ,Tuck fared better.I tried my best to make a more uniform surface.Water crossings not a problem, just lots of them and wet areas as...

Well today was the day I've been waitng for to finally do Owl's head. Cloudy with a chance of showers.After last weeks run I felt confident I could run most of the flats. I must say this was a rather unpleasant ordeal. I am usually the most joyous hiker, thrilled to be alive and in the...

I have been working on conditioning for trail running for a couple of months now and Monday looked like a good weather day and since I spent Sunday carb loading I figured I'd try to run my first 4 k peaks.I picked Whiteface and Passaconway because I knew there would be lots of good runnin in...

The original plan was for me to meet Una Dogger at Crawford notch at 7:00 and do a Southern Presi tarverse.I was up and left early and decided to go up 93 to get to the notch,usually I would just go up 16 but for some reason I felt like going up 93. Turned out to be a very fortunate decision.As...