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http://www.startribune.com/local/15895882.html They're not sure of the cause yet. But they're dying at an alarming rate.

I meant to post this earlier but Wednesday's New York Times had a special section, Circuits, in which the first 10 pages were devoted to GPS issues, brands, features, how they work. Haven't had a chance to read it through but it looked like it might be pretty useful, and written in layman's terms.

Sunset for Friday, August 17, is 7:48 PM. If you were at Zeta Pass late Friday afternoon/evening, Mount Washington would be near due west and the Sun would set behind it, at elevation 6,288 ft., rather than sea level, where sunset is actually calculated. Can anyone here do the math and determine...

I don't want to hijack the Lost Franconia Hiker thread further but when I posted that my GPS is usually off by 36 feet, I got two responses. It's a brand-new Lowrance i350c. I was wondering if the problem arose because I inputted my home location from my living room rather than the street in...

That's the question. I'm considering buying a slightly used pair.

On my 1987 AMC Pemi map, there is an unnamed peak listed at 4,024 feet between N. Hancock and the Pemigewasset R. On Topozone, it looks like it's the end of a ridge running NNE from N. Hancock and that it might dip to below 4,000 feet between the peaks. Evidently, not enough to qualify as an...

Normally, I wouldn't think to look at the Mt. Washington Observatory webcams at night but the thread about auroras this weekend sent me to the site and I looked at the cams. In the West cam, at 11 p.m. ET, is that Almaak and Mirach on the arm of Andromeda, starting from the center bottom and...

My wife has serious problems with directions and none of our cars have on-board systems that give directions. I'm thinking of getting a system that would allow her to input starting point and destination and would give her verbal instructions on when to turn. Is there a system that operates on...

The old links for Joe Jalbert's White Mountains Lost Trails website don't work anymore. Here's the new link: http://www.whitemountainlosttrails.com/TheTrails.aspx

RoySwkr was kind enough to send me a copy of a 1941 WMNF map earlier this year when we were discussing Hawthorne Falls hikes. On this map, there is no road linking the current Gale River Trailhead and the Garfield Trailhead. However, there is/was a road off Route 3 that runs east of the North...

I flew from Newark to Ottawa last week, pretty much up the eastern side of the Hudson to about Kingston, then up the west side of the river. From the left side of the plane, I couldn't see Albany but was pretty sure I saw Schenectady. Didn't see Saratoga Springs. I think it was directly under...

This story from the Sunday, July 10 Manchester Union-Leader reports three Dillon forestry trucks were torched in Success. There is a discussion about whether access to the Dillon-owned land might or should be restricted. http://theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=57517

A private plane crashed Tuesday, July 5, near the Appalachian Trail in northern New Jersey. My wife and I were within five miles of this location on Monday and met a thru-hiker from Michigan late in the afternoon who was heading toward High Point State Park on Tuesday. He might have seen or...

I just found out I don't have to work next weekend so I'm thinking of hiking up to Hawthorne Falls on Friday, staying at the Garfield Ridge Shelter and hiking out Saturday in time to see the Kentucky Derby. If anyone is interested in the walk to the falls, please suggest a departure time from...

During and after a hike up the Gale River Trail last summer I got to thinking about a bushwhack up to Hawthorne Falls. One website said the falls are 100 feet tall. That would make them among the most impressive in the White Mountains, and worth the climb. I'm thinking of this hike for early...

Does anyone know why the Patric McCarthy death investigation has been reopened? What new evidence has been offered? He's the 10-year-old Cape Cod boy who died near Lincoln in Oct. 2003 while vacationing with his Dad, stepmom and stepbrothers. He was close to their rented condo when he became...

Forest plan expands wilderness By PAULA TRACY Union Leader Staff LACONIA -- A draft proposal of a forest plan for the White Mountain National Forest is expected to recommend putting more acreage into protected wilderness, without a significant change to logging limits. The areas where...

The papers today reported there was a copy of "Not Without Peril," the White Mountain hiking-disaster book, in the car of Maura Murray, the UMASS student who disappeared after a one-car accident on Route 112 in Haverhill, N.H., on Feb. 9. A few people spoke to her after the accident and called...

Is it illegal to sleep at the summit of a mountain in the White Mountains. Is it legal to sleep atop some mountains and not others? Is this prohibition in place just in alpine locations, which would make sense, but not on summits below treeline? What are the rules in the Whites about this?