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Date of Hike: 3/6 Trail Conditions:Lincoln Wood right up to Bond Cliff is very well packed. From Bond Cliff to Bond there is intermittent bare rock, ice, and deep snow drifts. From Bond to West Bond is somewhat packed powder. From Guyot to South Twin is deep soft unpacked powder. South Twin to...

Date of Hike:2/25 Trail Conditions: The track could not have been smoother had someone brought a snow-blower up there. Hard crunchy snow all the way. There were a couple of pesky downed tree limbs that need to be climbed over or ducked under but nothing major. Special Equipment Required: I...

2/15 Trail Conditions:The road and trail to the hut were relatively well packed powder. From the hut up to Zealand on the Twinway was brutally deep powder. I regularly stepped knee deep and thigh deep in snow. Also, the snow raise path requires ducking many tree branches that are bending due to...

Weather permitting, I am planning to spend the night at Guyot tent site two Saturdays from now (2/15) and spend that Saturday and Sunday bagging most of the peaks in the area. I'm an experienced hiker and perfectly confident in my backpacking skills. However, (my wife) and I would feel more...

Trail Conditions: Very hard packed snow, ice, some exposed rock and roots. Extremely well defined and broken trail. Special Equipment Required: I wore snow shoes from the car to the summit and then back down to the North Twin Trail junction. After that I barebooted the last two miles back to...

Date of Hike:1/25 Trail Conditions: Hard packed snow, not very deep, icy in a lot of places, some exposed rock Special Equipment Required: I wore snow shoes from car to car mainly because I'd rather wear them than carry them. Out of the dozens of people I saw on the range today, I was the...

As a follow up to my cooking in the tent question, what do you think is the best stove for winter camping? According to REI, canister stoves don't work well below 32 degrees as they depressurize and don't burn well or at all. White gas stoves on the on the other hand, work well in freezing...

I have decided to venture into the world of winter camping/backpacking this season and with that in mind I recently purchased a brand new Mountain Hardwear Trango 2 tent. I have done a lot of research on the web about winter camping techniques and one of the strong selling points of this tent is...

This coming season I would like to try out winter camping. I am an experienced winter hiker and summer packpacker but I have never camped in the winter and would like to give it a shot. Even if I acquire the right equipment I won't feel confident to go out unless I am accompanied with someone...

I woke up bright and early and arrived at the parking area between 7 and 7:30. There were two hikers already arrived who were waiting for the rest of their party to show up. Since I was ready to go and they were not, I got the honored privilege of "trail breaker". Light fluffy snow was gently...

Almost exactly two years ago I hiked the Crawford Trail from Crawford Notch to Mount Monroe and back. I though I took this picture on the summit of Monroe. However, I climbed Monroe by way of Ammo last week and was surprised when there was no cairn on the summit. I thought maybe the cairn got...

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/03/mount-washington-has-world-worst-weather/ukVrJcLLJXV2PydJRO2ryI/story.html For a couple hundred bucks the meteorologists on the summit of Mount Washington will feed and entertain you for a night. Something seems wrong about this to me...

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We got to the trailhead at about 9:30 this morning and took our time going up the mountain. The trail was well-packed and easy to follow. Three of us wore snowshoes and a forth wore crampons. It was pretty cold and windy near the top. We stopped for a much appreciated cup of hot chocolate at...

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Do you think there is any real benefit to sharpening dull microspikes? Of course dull spikes might dig into snow and ice more easily. Yet, if they are dull, each spike will have more surface area with which to latch into. Also, sharpening is tricky and risks damaging the rubber band that goes...

Staving off hunger while hiking in the winter has posed some challenges for me. The consistency and flavor of food changes when it gets cold. And it's hard to stop moving for too long or else I get cold so what I eat must be eaten quickly and preferably require minimal chewing. A sandwich for...

Last March 31st my wife and I enjoyed a glorious hike up Mount Washington. It was an unseasonably warm day and everyone we encountered was in a great mood. While on our way down towards the Jewell Trail I spotted a guy a hundred yards away walking up the Cog railway with a bicycle on his back...

When we arrived in Jefferson at about 10a.m. this morning the parking area was pretty full. The sky was mostly overcast with a few breaks of sun and the temperature was in the mid 20s. The trail was very well packed down the entire way to the summit. The only challenge was managing the traffic...