There's an expression used in the White Mountain Guide and among New England hikers called book time. It refers to the suggested time cited in the Guide that it would take an inexperienced hiker to complete a trail segment. It's based on the...
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I bought a Highgear Axio Mini Altimeter/Barometer watch a few weeks ago. This isn't the first multi-function watch I've owned, but it is the first one I actually enjoy wearing because it is so small. I owned a Highgear Summit a few years ago...
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On my hike up Mt Tecumseh this weekend, I met a handful of skiers and snowboarders climbing up the Mt Tecumseh hiking trail in order to ski down the slopes of the adjacent ski resort on Tecumseh's southern slope.
Each of them had a different reason...
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I'm feeling pleasantly zonked and relaxed after climbing Mt Tecumseh (4,003 ft) this morning, number 48 on the White Mountain 4,000 footer list. It's the first time I've gotten out in few weeks due to a sinus infection I picked up on a business...
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Don't buy the Timex Adventure Tech Digital Watch Compass. It has a built-in leather/nylon band that you can't replace without sending it back to Timex. After about 2 months of wear, the watch band begins to fray and decompose. There's no...
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About two years ago, I started to become a lot more interested in the flowers, trees, animals, bugs, fungi, and geology that I encountered on my backpacking trips. I became an amateur naturalist. This added a whole new dimension to my walks and led to...
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