I don’t want to jinx everyone in New England but perhaps it’s too late. I have been wanting to get up to the mountains and do some Snowshoeing but the weather just has been so uncooperative. Lately we have hardly gotten any snow, leaving me to think that to head-up a mountain trail would require [...]

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Last month when we thought is was to be sunny we headed up to Summit Mt Adams and were shot down. (See Mt Madison Story) Today Rosie and I returned to get what we left, this would be “another day”. A high pressure system parked over New England so the forecast was to be exceptional. [...]

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The weather lately has been in a funk a little sunny but occasional showers, clouds and some severe thunderstorms. This was the case early Friday evening when storms blew through knocking out power and falling trees near our house and across Rt 202 making packing and preparing for the hike Friday night a headlamp affair.
In [...]

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Rose, Teah and I headed for end of the Kancamagus highway with the objective of spending our first night in the backwoods and reaching the summit of Mt Hancock. We made the trail head for the Hancock Notch Trail about 3:30pm after checking in with the Ranger Station to verify my understanding of the rules.
We [...]

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There was to be a break in the weather so north I went.  My hike would start off Sawyer River road and follow the Signal Trail to the summit. The hike is 5.1 miles from the parking lot to the summit for 10.2 rt.
Today I would be hiking solo. I would prefer to be with [...]

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