LT 2015 Day 1: Journey’s End to Tillotson Camp
Note: This is written as if I wrote it all the day of the hike. It was actually compiled from my memories and notes that I took on my phone as I hiked and written much later. Planned Schedule:5am –…
LT 2015 Day 0: Approach to Journey’s End
Note: This is written as if I wrote it all the day of the hike. It was actually compiled from my memories and notes that I took on my phone as I hiked and written much later. Schedule:8am – 11:30am:…
Review: Mountain House Chili Mac with Beef
Chili Mac with Beef Brand: Mountain House 575 calories / 136g = 4.3 cal/g I enjoyed this with my family while car camping at Baxter State Park. There’s not easy ice availability there so we were on dry food after…
Trip Report: North Brother
There was only one other 4000 footer in Baxter State Park (with prominence) that I hadn’t done so I used my last morning of hiking to knock that off the list. North Brother can be done in a loop with…
Trip Report: Hamlin Peak
I was visiting Baxter State Park with my family. It’s an awesome park, one of the first places that I felt overwhelmed by the mystery and magic of nature while wandering its moss-strewn paths. Katahdin was also one of my…
Trip Report: Mount Carrigain
After I had finished Tom, Field, and Willey I decided I hadn’t had enough punishment. Frankly, I was way behind my friend Josh on the 4,000 footer list so I had to squeeze in as many summits as I could.…
Trip Report: Tom, Field, and Willey
After spending a wonderful day hiking up to Mitzpah Springs with my family, my wife had given me the ok for a day of Ryan time doing bigger/new mountains. I had my eyes on this trio for a while because…
Trip Report: Mount Waumbek
My wife and I took Calvin for a weekend in the White Mountains for his first real hike, up to Mitzpah Springs Hut. But there were a lot of extra hours in the day so I threw some peaks in…
Trip Report: Mount Cabot
My family was away for the week which made it easier for me to get away to do some hiking. +Josh Ain talked to me into doing Cabot with him, which is one of the few that we both need…
Trip Report: Moosilauke via Beaver Brook
I haven’t posted in a while mainly because I haven’t been hiking, but also because for a while I was avoiding writing about the Long Trail attempt I made back in the fall. I’ll get to that soon, but to…