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Tunnel Brook Slides: 5/28/24
Morning rain showers and various errands led to a crack o' noon start, so I opted for a leisurely hike into Tunnel Brook Notch from the north. On the agenda were visits to several of the attractive...
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Mount Moosilauke Long Loop: 5/31/24
With the luxury of the long daylight hours of late spring, I made a leisurely long loop over Mount Moosilauke, making a six-mile ascent via the Asquam Ridge Trail (Ridge Trail for short) and Beaver...
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North Slide, Moosilauke's Slide Ravine: 6/3/24
Slide Ravine, the wild, trailless basin on the SW side of Mount Moosilauke, is well-named. No fewer than a dozen slides scarred its slopes during the 1900s. Most of these fell during the November 1927...
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Benton Trail & Elbow Pond: 6/5/24
With potentially severe thunderstorms a possibility for the afternoon, I opted for a morning hike up the Tunnel Brook Trail and Benton Trail to the outlook into Little Tunnel Ravine. Allowing ample...
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June Scenes from Cape Cod
Scenes from several short walks while on a family visit to Outer Cape Cod.Viewing platform at Marconi Wireless Station Site, South Wellfleet, Cape Cod National Seashore. The Atlantic was a deep blue on...
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Tripyramid South Slides: 6/13/24
On a warm sunny day during Laconia Motorcycle Week, I headed out to a favorite area in the Waterville Valley backcountry, where I knew I could get away from the constant distant rumble of bikes along...
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Mount Liberty Bowl: 6/17/24
I woke up with an itch for a long walk into the Pemigewasset Wilderness, and with some last minute planning decided to reprise a bushwhack journey I had made back in the summer of 1998 with the late...
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Pemi East Branch Loop: 6/19/24
On one of the hottest days of the season - with a high around 95 and the dew point in the oppressive 70s -Â the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River was calling. I loaded up my pack with plenty of...
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West Ledges, North Kinsman: 6/25/24
A sunny day with temperatures rising into the 80s seemed like a good time to revisit a bushwhack I did almost exactly 25 years ago: across the sweeping western slope of North Kinsman to a great expanse...
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Ethan Pond & Mount Willey Talus: 7/2/24
Last weekend avid bushwhacker Steve Mason stopped by the store and showed me pictures of an amazing climb he and Gavin Brown made up a steep gully that splits the huge rock slab on the SW side of Mount...
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Scenes from Downes Brook Slide: 7/4/24
A late afternoon/evening hike up the Downes Brook Trail and a climb up the lower ledges of the Downes Brook (Passaconaway) Slide was a great way to beat the heat and the July 4th holiday crowds.The...
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Evening at Upper Greeley Pond: 7/6/24
 A quick hike out to Upper Greeley Pond on a warm, muggy evening. With a 6:20 pm start I didn't have much time to hang around!Low water on the South Fork of Hancock Branch.Misty forest. Bog bridges....
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Zealand Notch & Whitewall Ledges: 7/8/24
On a classic summer day - partly sunny with big cauliflower clouds, hot and fairly humid - I took a long walk out through spectacular Zealand Notch, followed by a bushwhack to the expansive ledges of...
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"Little Arrow" Slide: 7/12/24
A slide that would be new to me seemed like a good choice for yet another warm, humid day (though not as oppressive as the day before). A relatively small slide on the steep south face of North Hancock...
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Sabbaday Slides: 7/16/24
On still another hot, humid day, pushing 90 degrees in the valleys with a dew point around 70, I took a long walk into the beautiful valley of Sabbaday Brook. Once well into this secluded basin, I...
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Ramble in the Great Gulf: 7/19/24
A hike into the Great Gulf Wilderness is always special. This huge glacial basin between Mt. Washington and the Northern Presidentials offers some of the grandest alpine scenery in the East. As the AMC...
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Ravine of the Castles: 7/22/24
After a day spent wandering in the Great Gulf, for my next hike I decided to return to my favorite of the Presidential Range cirques: Castle Ravine, or Ravine of the Castles as it was once called, the...
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Link Slide: 7/26/24
Took the afternoon off on a partly sunny day and headed over to Jefferson Notch Road to visit a slide I hadn't been to before. This one fell during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and spilled down across...
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The Castles: 7/29/24
After peering up at Mt. Jefferson's Castellated Ridge from Castle Ravine a week ago, and from a slide above The Link a few days later, it was only fitting that I would follow with a climb up to The...
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Old King Ravine Slide: 8/2/24
Continuing a series of wanderings in the Northern Presidentials, I aimed to explore the location of a huge slide that fell during Hurricane Carol in 1954 on the west wall of King Ravine. This slide...
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