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This thread is about Franconia Notch State Park. There are but two questions: 1) Should hikers have to pay a parking fee at the OBP/FW and Lafayette Place lots? 2) If they should, what portion of the fee beyond the costs of its administration should be spent on trail repairs, especially for...

In today's edition of The Scotsman is a story about two hillwalkers lost on Meall-an-t-Suidhe Wednesday night (that hill sits atop the north slope of Glen Nevis about halfway from the floor of the glen to the summit of Ben Nevis, maybe two miles from the town of Fort William). Lochaber Mountain...

Hello, everyone. If the State Approves the Mount Sunapee Resort's West Bowl expansion, we lose Summit Trail probably for good. We can still resist, but time is short. We have until June 5 to send our comments to the State of NH at [email protected]. Please be aware...

AMC: close Hurricane Gap Trail. Public: comment until January 23 2015 Good evening, fellow hikers. First, read the press release: nhstateparks.org, what's happening, press releases, proposed trail changes at Cardigan. We have a month to comment on this proposal, and the more who do, the more...

Let the moderators move this to a better thread, but: In today's Union Leader section B1 is a report on Search and Rescue funding. A committee of the NH House of Representatives studying HB256 will report that the idea to charge all rescued parties has been dropped. Instead, what they call a...

Good morning, trail crew, The hiking trails on Mt Cardigan had moderate damage from Hurricane Ilene. 'Twould have been worse had I not cleaned all the drains within the past month. I appeal to the hiking community to volunteer for trail restoration/erosion control over the next few weekends...

I have not read the article about Nh F&G's money woes from SAR. Here I speak mainly to my fellow trail maintainers: A found tourist is a tourist who is not lost and will not call 911 for that reason. We can reduce SAR expenses by making sure the trails we tend are blazed and signed enough...

The actual beaten path on this route soon leaves the summer trail for the powerline, which it follows all the way to the summit. Deeper snow, no limbs in the way, and no ice chunks and broken branches falling from the trees in the NW wind. Appear to be some blowdowns on the summer trail anyway...

Best spring snow conditions in several years, it is a real treat to climb this mountain now. Depths over 2' by winter parking, over 3' by jct S. Ridge Tr, about 4' at Cliff's Bridge. Well-packed snowshoe trough meanders around several blowdowns and over drifts several feet deep at treeline...