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When it comes to gear, do you constantly upgrade to the newest latest stuff, or do you stick with the same gear until it wears out no matter what technological improvements come along?

Just back from the mountain. Wind chill on the summit was 20 below (3 degrees and 20 mph winds). Visibility greater than 80 miles. Trails had a thin layer (less than an inch) of new (Thursday) snow bonded to the rock and ice underneath. Some sort of traction (microspikes, crampons, etc.) and...

Beautiful day at Monadnock. Following trails are very well broken out and covered with soft, packed snow: White Cross White Dot Red Spot Spellman Cascade Link Connecting trails from park side that have been broken by at least one hiker: Old Ski Path Harling Smith Connector If you wanted to...

Trails reported on: White Dot: Well-broken. Packed snow. Ice in spots. White Cross: Same as White Dot. Cascade Link: Broken for most of its length. Red Spot: only a few people had been up and down it. Old Ski Path: only one person (not wearing snowshoes) had been up it In general if you were...

Anybody remember when the REI annual dividends come out? I've got a pair of snowshoes that I'm dying to purchase and I'd like to put my dividend towards that.

I know I'm a slow hiker, but this is ridiculous: I went up Monadnock and didn't get down until the following decade! A solo winter nighttime hike up Monadnock to end the old year and ring in the new decade. I went up the White Dot. An inch or two of light new snow had fallen around noon on...

I just saw a presentation at Keene State College by two VFTT members: WOWSER and p2piper. They gave a multimedia presentation called "It's Not About the Hike" about their journey of climbing the 67 NE 4000'ers over the last 2 and 1/2 years and the lessons they learned. I found the presentation...

I'm out here in Seattle for a little bit and they have a some weather issues that we don't often get in our NE mountains: extended warm rains falling on heavy snow pack. The result is tremendous flooding and avalanches. All passes through the Cascades are closed and even highways and roads in...

... can't hear a word they're saying... :) Actually the reason that they're saying it is because during this recent cold snap I've been walking around without a jacket. I'm just trying to jump start my acclimatization for the winter hiking season. These same people who think I'm crazy now...

On Sunday (10/13/08), Mount Monadnock was a zoo. The combination of the holiday weekend, fall foliage near peak, and beautiful weather brought people out in droves. One of the rangers told me that he thought the number of visitors was the highest that the mountain had seen in the last ten...

I hiked a section of the Monadnock Sunapee Greenway today and came across this: Okay, I'll admit this was at a road crossing, but there was NOTHING else around except for the trail. Makes me wonder if the Obama campaign has a staffer whose sole job is to get out the Monadnock Sunapee...

What a pretty hike this was. (Mt. Monadnock in the background with Skatutakee [left] and Thumb [right] in the foreground. I believe the water is Lake Nubanusit.) I'd never been here before but read about it in Adamowicz's Hiking the Monadnock Region and also on NH Mountain Hiking. I...

Yesterday morning I set out to do a 10 mile out-and-back on the Monadnock-Sunapee-Greenway. This morning I woke up in the emergency room of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hosptial in Keene. What a difference a day makes. The hike started in Pillsbury State Park. I took the Bear Pond Trail out past...

Were you kayaking on the Otter Brook on 5/4/08? Is this you? If so, you can see a few more pics of yourself below: Kayakers, Otter Brook, 5/4/08

This trip report was inspired by the recent thread on ticks... DEET Vs. Bug-Off Informal Challenge ...which reminded me of the days when I was studying Blue Monkeys in the Kibale rainforest in western Uganda. We (my ex-wife and I) would spent from dawn to dusk every day hiking through the...

I climbed Cardigan yesterday from the AMC lodge side. [Rant on] ( :mad: ) I've been to this particular lodge twice now and each time I've had the same reaction: that people aren't very friendly there. Has anyone else found this to be the case? I hasten to add that I'm NOT talking about the...

Mountain: Mt. Kearsarge Date: 4/19/08 Trails hiked: Winslow & Barlow trails Conditions: A mixture of corn snow, ice, rock and mud. There was a strong monorail and to either side it was possible to posthole from knee to groin depth. Equipment: I used microspikes to go right up the monorail...

In my last trip report, http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21905 I told how I had just finished climbing Mt. Kearsarge when I was called to Monadnock State Park to help with a rescue. A young man had slipped on some ice in "Paradise Valley" on the White Dot trail and sustained a leg...

Mt. Kearsarge, 4/19, Still no moose This morning I hiked up Mt. Kearsarge (2937 feet. On the "52 with a view list") from the Winslow State Park side. You can find info on this mountain here: http://www.nhmountainhiking.com/hike/kearsarge/directions.html The access road still isn't free of...

Mountain: Mt. Monadnock Date of hike: Thursday, April 17, 2008 Trails hiked (in alphabetical order): Amphitheater Cascade Link Cliff Walk Do Drop Harling Lost Farm Noble Parker Pumpelly Red Spot Smith Connecting Link Spellman Thoreau White Cross White Dot Some of you have noticed that I've...