Trip Reports
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Hiking Guides for The White Mountain National Forest
While the White Mountains have a reputation for being very hardcore, they are in fact very accessible for hikers and…
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Undercast in Franconia Notch
When we crested Kinsman Ridge, the first thing we saw was Franconia Ridge floating above a billowy cloud of undercast.…
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Hiking a North Kearsarge Firetower Traverse in Snovember
Winter arrived over a month early this year and upset my autumn backpacking plans. While I still mourn the lost…
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Backpacking a Gentian Pond Loop
Gentian Pond is in the Mahoosuc Range, one of the hardest sections of the Appalachian Trail. I hiked a one-night…
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2018 Tenkara Fly Fishing Diary
The trout fishing season is almost over in New Hampshire and this year been a watershed in my development as…
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Backpacking a Speckled Mountain – Haystack Notch Loop
Most of my backpacking trips this year have turned into guidebook chapters for Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 footers, instead…
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Cohos Trail Section Hike: Percy Loop to Starr King
“It is amazing how much trail building the Cohos Trail Association gets done with such limited resources,” said Guthook, as…
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AT Section Hike: The Mahoosucs and Old Speck Mountain
“Pull on my ankles!”, I shouted to Ken, from under a house-sized rock in Mahoosuc Notch. I’d dropped a water…
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New Hampshire Appalachian Trail Section Hike: Rattle River to Lost Pond
The first backpacking trip I ever took in New Hampshire’s White Mountains started at the Rattle River Trailhead on Rt…
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Why Am I Publishing a Free Backpacking Guidebook for the White Mountain 4000 Footers?
I’m currently publishing a FREE guidebook for Backpacking the White Mountain 4000 footers in New Hampshire in serialized form on…
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New Hampshire Appalachian Trail Section Hike: Hanover to Wentworth
The New Hampshire Appalachian Trail begins at the bridge over the Connecticut River that separates Vermont and New Hampshire. That’s…
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Pennsylvania AT Section Hike: Fayetteville to Boiling Springs
Like a moth to the flame…my cabin fever gets so bad each April that I schedule Appalachian Trail section hikes…
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Undercast on Mt Madison in March
Imagine you’re standing on top of a mountain, looking down at a sea of clouds blanketing the valleys below. Called…
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Climbing Mts Pierce and Jackson in February
“These aren’t 20 mile per hour winds,” I told Eliot, as we started climbing the Crawford Path up to the…
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