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Will be in NH this weekend and planning to hike Carrigain/Vose on Saturday with a trail buddy. Just wanted to confirm that Sawyer River Road is still open. The map says "road closed in winter", but I don't want to get caught out if it actually gets closed on Sept. 15 or Oct. 1, for example...

Guess what I saw today on the "New Arrivals" display at my local BN...? Looks like the first item to put on my Christmas 2011 wish list. :D

Is anybody else heading up to Windham, NY this weekend for the Warrior Dash? I figger there must be some other crazy trailrunners on Views that would enjoy this type of event. :eek: (Me...? I'm just in it for the hat. The Viking helmet is probably the only thing that can top Jay's...

(Click here to skip all the blathering on and go straight to the pics.) ;) "Wow, there it is!" Paul said. "Cool!" I replied. From seats 30B and 30C, the mountain was off in the distance, but it was snow-covered and we had heard that you could see Rainier from the plane, so we were...

My partner Paul and I climbed Breakneck Ridge over the Memorial Day weekend as one of our final training hikes for our upcoming Rainier trip. I've wanted to hike Breakneck for several years and just never found the right confluence of free time/partner availability/good weather/etc. Arguably...

A couple posts in Craig's thread about environmental sustainability in the outdoor industry in general made me think about Patagonia in particular (as an example). Patagonia gives back 1% of sales or 10% of profits to environmental causes, whichever is greater. Patagonia is also generally...

"We're not lost...we're just not where we want to be." :D Picking up the wrong route at the trail junction found us hugging the shore of Pharaoh Lake, which struck me as odd, as my recollection from printing off the topo map was that we should've been heading north/inland towards the climb...

...or any New Englanders feeling a bit of schadenfreude for our neighbors to the south: Mid-Atlantic snowstorm from space (pic)

My partner and I are heading up on winter backpacking/ice climbing trip to Pharaoh Mountain in a couple weeks. The plan is to drive up after work on Friday and motel it, hike in Saturday morning and do the climb, camp out near the climb Saturday night and then hike out/drive home on Sunday...

<cross-posted from SummitPost.org - East Coast forum> Dear hikers - I was hiking on the Willey mountain range from the Crawford Notch State Park on Saturday Jan 9 2010. The trail head begins from that railway station. At the end of the hike I might have dropped my "Outdoor Research Endeavor"...

LA Times article here. This guy soloed WI6 like most of us walk down the street. :eek: First Bachar...now Lacelle...2009 is turning out to be a tough year for free soloists. RIP.

Having endured the mud-fest on Colvin and Blake a coupla weeks back, I'm kinda looking forward to winter hiking (and ice climbing, 'natch...). My three winter peaks so far are Algonquin, Colden and Giant. For the Winter 46ers out there -- or anybody who's done a lot of winter ADK hiking --...

Following up on the threads about orienteering (a.k.a. running through the woods) and getting in shape, and combining that with our apparent collective "brewmance," I was wondering if anybody else amongst us hashes? On-on!! ;)

I'm cursed with bony hips. That, combined with the fact that I sleep on my side, made for an uncomfortable night with not too much sleep, as I listened to the rain dripping onto the tent fly at the base of Chapel Slab. I had left my 3/4-length Thermarest ProLite self-inflating pad at home...

I'm in the early planning stages for a mid/late October High Peaks trip and was wondering where we might be able to rent bear canister en route to the Upper Works trailhead. My previous trips have been out of Keene Valley or the Loj, so I've got cans at either the HPIC or The Mountaineer, but...

So, I'm at work and I get a call a few minutes ago from the wife (i.e., SWMBO) that goes something like this: ME: [seeing the callerID on my mobile phone] "Hi, honey." SHE: "Why the hell do you have so many backpacks!?!?" ME: [long pause] SHE: "Are you there?" ME: [hopefully]...

Who 'dis? Pinkham VC on Sunday morning 8th-Feb -- great parking spot, about two slots from the entrance (not at the far end o' the lot, where I parked. :rolleyes:) Brown/dark maroon Subaru wagon with some other stickers on it, including two Cannon black-diamond shaped ones on the rear bumper...

FRIDAY, 10/3 -- DRIVE UP/HIKE-IN/PHELPS My two hiking partners -- Sir Edmund and E-Frame -- and I left Brewster, NY at 7:45A, happy that all three of us were making another foray to the ADKs. Just two weeks prior, E-Frame had sprained his ankle on a family hike and was unsure whether he'd make...

I'm taking my kids (ages 11 and 8) up to the ADK's on Sunday for their first 46ers hike -- Cascade and Porter. Originally, I was planning on doing a backpacking trip, but I'm re-thinking that plan now. I don't want to overwhelm them on their first ADK's trip, so I'm leaning toward just finding...