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I hiked up the Banana trail from Canaan Road to Mt Shaw on Sunday. The blueberries on Big Ball Mtn. (also know as Blueberry ridge) are big, ripe and numerous. There was also a big bear happily eating his share. The trail is in good shape and if you haven't been there, it is a beautiful hike.

It seems to me that there has been a big increase in recent years in logging activities on public lands managed as State Forests and Wildlife Management Areas. This activity seems to coincide with the recent period of shortfalls in tax revenues in the state. I was wondering where the money goes...

In a city like New York, when the place gets flooded and the power is off, where does the poop go? I mean there are millions of people and they keep pooping.

I have been studying some of the old and now disused trails on Mt Sunapee. The 1915 Ayers Mao shows one that I have been trying to find the name for marked with a red arrow. Also note that there was a trail that went up the North Peak. The USGS topo map from 1955 shows both of the trails which...

I have figured out how to attach a photo to a post but cannot figure out how to have the photo show up with the text instead of as an attachment. I know some of you can do it so others should be able to do it too.

I have hiked in the Mount Sunapee are a few times in the past couple of weeks. I have been noticing gypsy moths laying egg mass on trees and als0 a number of new egg masses. These are nasty bugs and can do major harm to the forest. If you see their egg masses on tree trunks, destroy them. It...

Does anybody what happened to the :ladder" on the steepish patch of ledge on the Blueberry Ledge Trail, near the top of Mt. Whiteface. If it was removed on purpose, who and why? it is a great trail but some people are turned back by that short section. It wouldn't be all that much fun coming...

Has anyone hiked the Precipice trail in the Belknaps recently. I read a post from about a year ago that seemed to suggest that it should be saved for dry weather. I have a copy of Dave Roberts map of the region and have found it to be pretty accurate. He has done us all a great service with his...

On Sunday Mary and I hiked up Mount Major and back down along Straight Back Ridge. The Mount Major trails were easy to find because they are all ribbons of ice. Straight Back was mostly clear but in places there were sections of snow. There were fresh bear tracks in a few places. It must be Spring.

Mary and I went for a short wander in the Mink Hills in Henniker NH on Sunday. It was a very nice day and we came upon a bunch of foot prints that we couldn't identify using our fogged memories. These prints were different from any of the other winter critters we were familiar with but when we...

In case you have missed the latest work by your Representatives in Concord, HB 514 passed without as much as a squeak from the hikers of this state. Note: I would have more than squeaked if I had heard about this. If you read this bill you will note that it will be illegal to take photos on...

The name of this hill was enough forme to investigate more. Bumfagging Hill, at 601 feet, is the highest named summit in Barrington. A search on Google provided litle information but did lead to a thread on this site from a couple of years ago...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of hiking up Whiteface by the Blueberry Ledge Trail. If you haven't been there this year, you should go see the beautiful trail work. A stone staircase has been built up a steep section, at least 300 feet long. The unconfirmed word is that the WODC got some funding...

Hi Kids, OK, Rocket and his team have bailed for their Saturday Hike. I hereby propose that interested hikers meet at the bottling plant parking spot at 9:30 AM on Saturday. From there, we hike up Roberts, head out to the Faraway lookout on the High Ridge Trail, and decend back down to the cars...

After spending a month, clearing some of the hiking trails in the Virgin Islands National Park on St. John, I can report that they are all cleared. The ice storm seems to have caused no damage. The new superintendent of the Park Service there has made some improvements but he still has a hard...