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First time back up in northwest CT in three months. Got the usual early start so I saw no one on the Undermountain and AT up to Bear, just one very quiet, solitary woman reading a book on the summit. Headed down the Bee Line and was struck by how filled in it was witih brush at the top, very...

Reading the post on the bear encounter on Cannon Mt. prompted me to report a close encounter I had last week in Connecticut. And it was actually in an area surrounded by suburban develoment. Early one evening I was running down the paved access road to the trails to the Heublein Tower in...

Thought this trip report was particularly thrilling. Amazing pictures, good story, and certainly a pretty over-the-top accomplishment. But the only thing I wondered about was how many of these types of pretty extreme ski mountaineers don't make it on one of these type of solo adventures...

Over the last month or so, all of a sudden, Webshots is very slow on my computer. So much so that I can't really get through a slide show, since it takes minutes for each picture to come up. Even if I'm looking at the whole album and click on an individual picture, it takes very long to...

Looking through the thread on the Madison rescue, I was struck by the intensity of the criticism and anger generated by this incident (as were some of the other posters). I want to throw out the question as to why so much intensity was generated? I believe that the criticism goes beyond what...

Revisited Bear on Saturday (5/28). Day turned out to be a lot nicer than expected. Kept getting sunnier and sunnier. Anyway, here are some more detailed diretions to find the Bee Line from the top of Bear: Start at the west side of the monument (plaque behind you). If you look west you...

Well, thanks to some good directions from Stormin Norman, I finally found the B-line trail this past Sunday (5/7), and at the same time certainly got the most out of this basically pretty moderate mountain. It was definitely a perfect, cool, dry unusually clear day for this time of year in the...

Help! I cannot find this trail. I've hiked all the trails in the vicinity many many times but have not been able to find the Bee Line Trail that runs between Bear Mt. in CT to the AMC Northwest Cabin area. Today I was on top of Bear and explored many of the herd paths heading west off the...

The "Forest Mystery" thread about a probable owl attack on a jay has prompted me to share my own personal owl attack story and wonder if others have had similar experiences. A few years back, late in the fall, late one afternoon, I was jogging along a trail in West Hartford, CT, on MDC...

I came upon this while looking for White Mountain scenery. http://www.blueriverdigital.com/murals/mural_order.asp?itemid=78&catid=20 I'm sure that many out there can help me identify what exactly is pictured here. (I hope I pasted the link properly...) Thanks!!

I need some help. Just moved to a new office and have one very large wall that I'd like to use for some nice big prints or photos of mountain scenery. Doesn't have to be the White Mts. (although that would be great), could be the Rockies, Tetons, Cascades, etc. Can be photos, prints, large...

On Saturday, 9/10, I did the Tripyramids, up Livermore, then the North Slide and down the South Slide. What a beautiful day it was for any hike, brilliant blue skies, incredibly clear and perfect hiking temperature. The road walk for the 3.6 miles to the turn off for the North Slide is...

Had a great hike up Mt. Equinox (Manchester, VT) on Saturday (2/28). As many people probably know, this is a surprisingly hardy hike: the peak is just under 4K and the one trail up it (Burr-Burton) climbs just about 3,000 vertical feet in 3 miles. The main feature of the trail is its almost...