December 25, 2021 Start/end: Carlo-Goose Eye Trailhead Miles: 5.3 Elevation gain: 2388′ GPS Track After a late night and a rough hike up Elephant, I let myself sleep in until 8am and then packed up and headed out. The trailhead is on an old logging road that I believe may be a snowmobile track in … Continue reading Winter NE100: Goose Eye
December 24, 2021 Start/end: parked at 2 boulders on Elephant Mtn Rd Miles: 7.2 Elevation gain: 2454′ GPS track I started the hike on the later side, around 4:30pm, with sunset not far away. I figured it wouldn’t be too bad; I had perhaps half fresh batteries in my headlamp and I didn’t recall Elephant … Continue reading Winter NE100: Elephant
December 24, 2021 Start/end: by Bambi Ln, on Kennebago Rd Miles: 8.77 Elevation gain: 2808′ GPS track After a failed attempt to drive out to the White Cap/Kennebago Divide trailhead (it wasn’t plowed after the 3-4″ snowfall on Wed night and I was already concerned about hiking when it was -10), I headed to Kennebago … Continue reading Winter NE100: East Kennebago
December 23, 2021 Start/end: original trailhead on Snow Mtn Rd Miles: 7.31 Elevation gain: 2575′ GPS track I headed to the trailhead in the early afternoon, nervous to see if I would find it plowed or gated. I was relieved to find it open and mostly plowed; the last third of the road hadn’t been … Continue reading Winter NE100: Snow (Chain of Ponds)
Sunday, March 7, 2021 Start/end: Rt-27 AT parking lot Miles: 17.0 Elevation gain: 4369′ I left from the parking lot at 6:30am, ready for my final Winter 67 hike. Per the ME ATC chapter, I parked at the Rt-27 parking lot rather than at the end of Stratton Brook Pond Rd. On my way out, … Continue reading Winter 67: Bigelows-West, Avery, South Horn
Saturday, March 6, 2021 Start/end: Sugarloaf golf course/West mountain parking lot Miles: 15.86 Elevation gain: 3025′ I was up early but I took my time heading out to the trailhead, since I knew that it was going to start in the low single digits and be windy all day, so I wanted to give the … Continue reading Winter 67: Redington
Sunday, February 21, 2021 Start/end: Pine Bend Brook trailhead Miles: 9.28 Elevation gain: 3451′ I parked my car in the Sabbaday Falls lot and the other 3 folks I was hiking with picked me up and we drove the mile down the road to the Pine Bend Brook trailhead. We weren’t certain if we could … Continue reading The Grid: Tripyramids
Saturday, February 20, 2021 Start/end: Greeley Ponds XC Ski trailhead, since Greeley Ponds trailhead isn’t being plowed this year Miles: 8.17 Elevation gain: 3267′ After our quick hike up to Tecumseh, we drove over to the Greeley Ponds XC trailhead. We were able to get the one open space remaining (perhaps from some early morning … Continue reading The Grid: Osceola, East Osceola
Saturday, February 20, 2021 Start/end: Waterville Valley ski area Miles: 4.87 Elevation gain: 2217′ We started out early, leaving the trailhead by 6:45. We hiked up to the summit and then headed back down. On the way up, we had some nice views, with blue sky and sun. By the time we made it to … Continue reading The Grid: Tecumseh
Monday, February 8, 2021 Start/end: Appalachian Trail crossing, Stratton, ME Miles: 12.74 Elevation gain: 3970′ After a day of remote work, I headed to the trailhead and hiked out from the AT trailhead nearby Stratton. There’d been a group of 4 hikers who had broken out the trail the day before, so snowshoes were needed … Continue reading Winter 67: North & South Crocker
Transcending Mountains 