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The Green Mountain Club has reminded me that this year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Vermont's Long Trail. Three cheers for the GMC and its founders, who a century ago imagined and created the LT, and all those GMC volunteers and employees who over the years have built...

Recently I shot a string of assignments that totaled out at somewhere between 1,500 and 1,600 exposures on a single Nikon EN-EL4 (Lithium ion) battery in my Nikon D2Hs slr camera body. (I change out my battery packs when the camera shows they are down to 10%.) The battery pack in questiuon has...

I am curious as to what kinds of tripod and other camera support gear the photographers here use, and what their impressions of it are. A year ago I went hog wild and upgraded my tripod “system” from a venerable (ca 1970) and still serviceable Tiltall. The new setup is built around a pretty...

Tonight’s full moon, if visible, is supposed to be 30% brighter and appear 14% larger than any other full moon of 2008, according to a current National Geographic News story: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081211-biggest-brightest-moon.html This should be a great opportunity...

This link will take you to a Green Mountain Club news release about an illegal ski trail cut on Big Jay last summer. GMC takes its conservation easement trust obligations seriously, as the story says. Three cheers for GMC. G.

For Nikon fans ... Nikon announces its new D3 SLR camera, here: Nikon D3 The new D300 SLR is announced here: Nikon D300 Two new zoom lenses from Nikon are announced here: New Nikon Zooms And Nikon announces new super telephoto lenses, here: Expensive Dream Stuff It sure is interesting...

Last week I drove through the Moose River Plains area in the Adirondacks, entering at Wakely Dam and exiting at Limekiln Lake. At Limekiln I noticed the (built-in, digital) compass on my vehicle had gone haywire, and needed recalibration. It had worked OK before entering the Moose River...

First of all, it certainly is good news that the recent story about the lost hiker on Lafayette turned out well. I wish that young man a speedy recovery. And I applaud the efforts of the search teams, who (as always) did a magnificent job under difficult conditions. But the story raises a...

Ted “Cave Dog” Keizer was/is scheduled to finish up his Duofold 50 in 50 challenges with an epic day hike in the Adirondack High Peaks today (Nov 28) and tomorrow morning. Details here. Anybody have a progress report on this adventure? G.

Just thinking about the new bear canister regulations for parts of the Adirondack High Peaks, I wonder about bear activity so far this year. Any reports of bear encounters/incidents/raids this year in bear hotspots around Marcy Dam, Lake Colden and Flowed Lands, up the Johns Brook Valley, etc...

After many, many years of resisting, I finally have caved in to Mrs. Grumpy’s demand that we visit the Left Coast at least one more time before . . .. Let’s not think about that! The upshot is that we will sponge off friends near San Francisco in mid June this year. Being good friends, those...

An article generally outlining three proposed routes for the North Country Trail across the Adirondack Park can be read at this link. What do you think about these proposed routes? When completed, the North Country Trail will run about 4,600 miles from Crown Point, New York, to Lake...

Out of curiosity . . . It has been just about a year now (give or take some) since the famous cables were removed from the Range Trail route up Gothics from the Gothics-Saddleback col. The removal was for safety reasons as the cables were said to have deteriorated to usnafe condition. A...

Happy Fourth of July -- Independence Day -- to all you fellow VFTTers who celebrate and revel in this special American holiday! And for those who don't, well, I just wish you an extraordinarily nice "regular" day. G.