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The hike started at sunrise. We stayed in Gorham the night before so short drive to Rocky Branch trail head. The trail conditions were such that snowshoes are still the most effective form of traction start to finish. With the warm up coming i doubt this will change. The trail was a side walk, in… Read more: 02-28-2026 Isolation

Started this day a bit earlier than the group. The hike was originally going to be galehead, which is one of the nine left I need to complete my winter 48. Overnight 6 inches of fresh snow of sand-like quality was dumped. I hiked 2 miles in from the Basin parking lot off i93. This… Read more: 02-21-2026 Mt Liberty (AMC NH Hike)

A group of us decided to hike the Tripyramids as an unofficial hike via Pine Bend Brook Trail. The friends i went with didnt have the peaks in winter season & i didnt mind this hike in the past. The temperature at sunrise was 5 degrees F. The trail is still in a state where… Read more: 02-14-2026 Tripyramids

The night before this hike stayed in North Conway. This made the drive time to Sawyer River Road short. The lot is plowed. The hike started at 0730 & the temperature at that time was -8F. This was an official AMC NH Chapter hike. The snow on the trail was sand quality. Anything but snowshoes… Read more: 01-31-2026 Mount Carrigain

A large group of people set out to do this hike as an unofficial effort. We started with ten people & ended up as three people that would end up doing both Madison & Adams. Per usual the forecast provided to us was overly cautious in my opinion, which is fine as I understand the… Read more: 01-17-2026 Madison Adams

The night prior to this hike i stayed at the Top Notch Inn in Gorham. This place seems to have reasonable rates and is always clean. You cant beat being able to just open the door and get to your car & gear in the morning. After heading to the local Cumberland farms for hot… Read more: 01-10-2026 Cabot Horn Bulge Loop

This hike was started early. The parking lot temperature was 1 degree according to my car though garmin indicated it was -6. I hadnt planned on posting about this hike due to how i felt about it in general. From Duxbury window trail i made an attempt to summit Camel’s Hump via the Long Trail.… Read more: 01-02-2026 Camels Hump

My partner and I stayed at Allegory Inn nearby the night before this hike as the temperature were going to be dropping and the wind speeds increasing throughout the day. We started at 0630. We cruised up to Eisenhower at over 2 mph which is great in winter. Often times trail conditions are such that… Read more: 12-21-2025 Eisenhower, Pierce, Jackson Loop (37/48 Winter)

I guess i had forgotten why it is always best to take well traveled trails (not beaver brook for example) when winter conditions exist.It was unseasonably warm, but a beautiful day. I broke trail to just before the junction of beaver brook & benton trails. At the point i decided i was done. The snow-pack… Read more: 12-18-2025 Beaver Brook (Moosilauke Attempt)

Two weeks passed from the last late fall hike. Effort felt more than i would have expected. Knowing Franconia ridge & the trails up are generally well traveled & broken out, an unofficial group of us decided to do a loop hike. The low that morning ended up being in the low teens in the… Read more: 12-06-2025 Franconia Loop

I am making this post over two weeks from when the event took place. I have not been motivated to post much, but after planning, coordinating, & having the pleasure of leading this event with my partner as an AMC NH Chapter Volunteer leader; I thought i would make a quick post. Over the last… Read more: 11-21-2025 AMC YM Interchapter AMC Highland Center Weekend

Started this hike at about 0145 am after becoming aware that the full moon would be at peak around 3am that same morning. I have often attempted full moon summits & have been socked in before so this was rewarding. The temperature was 14 degrees F at the parking lot. The campground side parking was… Read more: 03-25-2024-Franconia Ridge Full Moon

Started the hike at 630 am. The temperature in the parking lot was 16 degrees (F). When it is in the teens i start layering. Bottom is thick wool socks, under armor leggings, long johns, rain pants as shell. Top is under armor cold gear base layer, fleece layer, then rain shell jacket. In my… Read more: 11-21-2023 Moosilauke via Beaver Brook

The hike started at about 0415, & i wore a base layer (UA Coldgear top & bottom), as well as heavier darn tough brand socks. My stiff soled boots were still completely saturated from doing washington on the 17th, so i had to use some trail running shoes i have. I am feeling the pain… Read more: 10-19-2023 Passaconaway Whiteface Loop up Walden Trail

Started this hike around 330am from Ammo parking lot. I can’t recall a time where i had worse visibility due to mist/basically being in a cloud all the way up to 5400 feet. The entire trail was soaked due to said mist & the small amount of rain that had fallen the night before. At… Read more: 10-17-2023 Washington via Jewell

This was an AMC NH Chapter young member event (20s/30s). The hike up to Carter Notch Hut began at 0800 Saturday morning on 10/14. It was a cool, crisp fall day. Some clouds, but with how wet it has been all summer i will take weekends like this. The group of 12 of us made… Read more: 10-14+15-2023 Carter Hut Overnight Hike (AMC-NH YM)

Hike started at 0310 hours, in the northbound Basin Parking lot i was the only person there on a Tuesday morning. It was in the low 40s, perfect for my tastes. My intentions were to get a sunrise hike. The summit forecast was clear right in the morning then cloudy which ended up being true.… Read more: 10-10-2024 Franconia Range – October Skies

Started the hike at 245am from Glencliff parking lot (solo hike), was hoping to see the full moon & get some pictures. The forecast was some clouds (summit), ended up being that the summit was socked in with slight wind maybe 5-10mph. Not many maples down the backside going through tunnel brook & a bit… Read more: 09-30-2023 Moosilauke Loop

Started this hike at 815 as a leader of an AMC NH YM chapter camping group. The hike itself was off the books though. Up airline trail. Airline was slightly wet but not too bad. Made it to the hut for a hot drink. Up & down from Madison by 1215pm. At the summit of… Read more: 9-22 & 9-23 AMC NH YM Barnes Field & Madison Adams

The amount of new work that has been done near the first mile in on the bridal path is pretty profound. They have basically made it into a legit walking path.Started at about 0730, the notch was low 40s to start & felt like we are getting to fall finally, though i imagine we will… Read more: 09-15-2023 Lincoln Lafayette Loop

Started the hike at 0800 from lafayette campground going up past lonesome lake & out to south kinsman, came back over the cannon balls & ended tagging cannon & decending down the high cannon trail. The entire trail was running water except for the swampy lowland sections of the trail (cannon balls). At some point… Read more: 08-26-2023 Kinsman Cannon Loop

This was an official AMC hike for young members (NH Chapter). The weather was ideal for the most part & considering how many of the weekends have been stormed out I glad.Start time was 0700 & temperature was 58 degrees (F). As the day went on it became more hot & humid as it is… Read more: 8-12-2023 AMC NH YM Whiteface Passaconaway Loop Hike

It had been two weeks since my last hike. The last few years i have gotten out hiking usually atleast once on the weekend. More recently a nagging injury I have has kept me from going out as much though the weather has played a factor….Start time 0445. 70 degrees before the sun came up… Read more: 06-24-2023 Tripyraminds via Pine Bend Brook Trail

Stayed at LoTC hut Saturday night after coming up the Ammo trail in much rain (I am an AMC NH leader). The next morning decided to do a sunrise hike of Washington with optional Jefferson depending on how much I wanted to bite off. The Thursday before we went up reports were that 5 inches… Read more: 6/11/2023 Mt Washington from LoTC, Clay Loop, Jewell Trail

-Woke up thinking of hiking moat mountains, decided against the 2 hour drive & decide to go with my go to hike. Something on franconia ridge. Trail reports indicated snow was gone for the most part. Jumped in the car, & after grabbing some shite gas station coffee start time was 0330. I like to… Read more: 05-27-2023 Franconia Ridge

PROBLEM The number of pop-up ads I seemed to be getting when browsing to sites to read articles seemed to be getting out of hand. I wanted to limit this & came across the pihole dns solution referenced by large numbers of ‘top uses for raspberry pi’ type articles. I had a pi available from… Read more: Pi-Hole DNS Ad-Blocking Project