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Beautiful weather, perfect temps. Trail was good. Water was fair. Climb is easy and gradual with some short steep ups. We started at Maine 4 at 7:20am and summited at 11:30 am. Took lots of breaks going up. Saw the signs out for Gerry (aka Inchworm):( Great hike was had by all. Reached the...

Wondering what the latest word is on these trail to Mt Isolation. Thought I had read one of these trails is beat up pretty bad. Maybe not. Heading out for a couple of nights. Davis Path, Rocky Branch and Dry River Trail.

Arrived at 8:30am to a pretty full lot. It was overcast and we decided to go up Gorge Brook since we havent done that route. Well....it was closed due to water damage so we took the Snapper ReRoute about a half mile. Took us about 90 minutes to reach the summit. The clouds were thick and heavy...

We flew out to Denver on the 4th and were transported to the start of Segment 7 at Goldhill. We got started around 6pm and hiked up a gradual climb to just over 10,000 feet. We had a great view of Mt Evans and a good vantage point to check on the late day thunderstorms. We were in between Frisco...

Learned some very interesting lessons while on this hike. I met up with my buddy, Ryan (Guthook) to hike Zealand Falls to Guyot. He would continue over the Twins and I was planning on 2 nights out. The rain started on Zealand and continued off and on. We made a pretty good pace, after we climb...

We are flying out to Colorado in a few weeks and have a stop in Atlanta. We are mailing our stove, fuel canister and knife to a friend in Denver. Im trying to figure out if I should mail our tent poles and stakes as well, or just check our bag. Our layover in Atlanta is 4 hours so it doesnt seem...

Posted a blog about our trip. Did an overnight to Garfield Tentsite. Not as crowded as I anticipated. Great night to be out in the woods http://www.teamchacopak.com/2013/05/garflield-trail-frost-trail-gale-river.html

Conditions: Great, lots of water. The climb up is mostly dry. The final push up to the summit cone of Garfield has snow and ice. Most barebooted but I was glad we had spikes. From Garfield tentsite to Galehead had some spotty snow and ice but we barebooted. The steep decent was tricky but...

Red River Theater is showing the AT documentary by Nat Geo and then we will be paneling a discussion afterwards. My wife and I have fielded some of the questions and really want to hit on backcountry regulations for the WMNF and surrounding areas, LNT. Anyway, we would love to meet some of...

We are looking at staying at Crag Camp this Saturday. I know its a Canadian Holiday and just before Memorial, but will we need to worry about the tentpads filling up early on Saturday? We are getting a bit of a late morning start.

Great hike. It was cold and windy as forecasted but the winds were no problem, just a tad gusty. The monorail wa solid ice which made for good traction instead of postholing melted slushy. Im glad I had microspikes. It was CROO day so I passed a whole bunch of the Croo for Greenleaf. This was...

Havent seen much on the sites about the status of this trail. Met a hiker on the Presidential's that said it is still pretty snowy and tough to manuever in spots. I have never hiked it before but I have been told its pretty easy in summer. Looking at the Ammo to Washington and down the Jewell.

Glorious day. Light breeze. Could not have asked for a better day to be on The Presi's. The snow was a little sluggish at times on our way up to Nauman Tentsite. Camped there for the night. Perfectly clear night. Amazing. Started out this morning at 7am from Nauman. Packed monorail to treeline...

My wife and I will be part of a panel of hikers talking about thruhiking. There will also be the showing of the Nat Geo AT Doc from 2008. Its at Red River Theater in Downtown Concord on May 17th at 7:00. Come on out. http://www.redrivertheatres.org/now-showing/special-events/

Great great hike Sunday 4-28-13 for us and the pup. Lots of folks in sneakers and without traction :eek:. We wore microspikes about 70% of the time especially on the big climb to the leadges. There is some snow right as you come out of the woods after the junction and the last big climb up and...

took awhile to spot any ice but once we got up, it was all on the trail. The rock slabs past the Liberty Cabin were tough to manage with a puppy. I turned back about .3 from the summit before the chute up to the summit. It was tough to manage with microspikes in spots and our pup lost his...

Lookin at this hike for Sunday's beautiful weather. I see on nhtrails that the bridge was washed out. Should I just go Hammond Trail or maybe Carter Ledge? Also does anyone know about White Ledge Parking?

Started at the Waterville Trailhead mid morning. Trail was mud and slushy snow about a quarter of a mile in then we got into a couple of mixed bags of sleet and heavy snow. We only carried microspikes and wore them most of the way. There is still plenty of snow from the ski trail junction to the...

We did a short overnight to the hut via 19 Mile Brook Trail. The temps were around 0 when we started. The trail was postholed and difficult to manage in some spots especially after the Carter Dome Trail Junction. The next day going back down was great, fresh 3-4 inches of snow. Great for...

Drove up Friday evening to the trailhead at north 26. It rained hard from the moment we drove through Franconia Notch. Plan was to do all of Grafton Loop Trail but work chopped one of our days in half. We waited the rain out til 7pm and hiked up to Baldpate LeanTo. There were 4 thru hikers. Camp...