On a cool, partly sunny and windy day I headed up Webster Cliff Trail to check out an ongoing major relocation by the AMC trail crew and enjoy some views. A classic weathered trail sign at the trailhead, which will soon be outdated. Can thi…
Mount Hale has a number of good viewpoints, but unfortunately the summit isn't one of them. When I first climbed Hale in 1978, it had terrific views. Nowadays, thanks to prolific tree growth, you must bushwhack to find good views on Hale. T…
Spent another day up in the Northeast Kingdom climbing two small peaks - Moose Mountain and Haystack Mountain - on either side of Lake Willoughby. This brings me up to 10 peaks climbed on the Northeast Kingdom Mountain Challenge, halfway th…
A hot, humid day with low water levels in Downes Brook was a good day to return to a favorite place, the open ledges on the lower part of the Downes Brook Slide, which creased the northern slope of Mount Passaconaway in the 1890s. On the ap…
Continuing to explore Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, I spent a day wandering the trails of the 26,000-acre Groton State Forest, which includes several small state parks within its boundaries. First I made a stop at Seyon Lodge State Park, whi…
For many years I have gazed at the lumpy outline of Vermont's Signal Mountain Range, which is prominent in the mid-distance from many viewpoints in the western Whites. The highest peaks in that range - Signal, Burnt, Butterfield and Knox -
Headed off-trail in Gorge Brook Ravine on Mount Moosilauke again, this time to visit the northernmost of the six slide tracks on the west side of the bowl. I number the slides from south to north, so this is Slide #6. Several of these track…
The Benton Trail on the NW side of Mount Moosilauke is one of my favorites, and several times over the years I've used it as the access to explore some of the many "fir waves" at the edge of the ridgecrest to the west. Fir waves, which are
An afternoon/early evening trek into Tunnel Brook Notch (from the north) to climb partway up the tallest of nine slides on the east face of Mount Clough. Counted in order from south to north, this is Slide #4. When I last came through here
The hike Carol and I took to Unknown Pond in Avery's Gore for her Vermont 251 +4 Geocaching Challenge finale inspired me to head back up to the Northeast Kingdom for another hike. One of the best viewpoints in the NEK is Burke Mountain (326…
The crossing of Tunnel Brook partway along the beaver ponds sometimes requires wading, but not this day. First views across the notch to the ridges of Moosilauke. First ledges on the slide. The lower ledges are broken up by bands of brush.
On a beautiful summer day Carol and I headed way up north to Avery's Gore in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom for her finish in the Vermont 251 + 4 Geocaching Challenge. This involves finding at least one geocache in each of Vermont's 251 towns