Guides are often hired because the clients (we call them guests) have a lack of experience. In other times quite the opposite is true. Some folks just know and value what a guide brings to the table — based on years of their personal experiences. In this case the couple had time in their lives to gain experience hiking in Italy and Europe — once even […]
The other day an oft-returning guest told us during a phone call that he really enjoyed hiking with Redline Guide Chase Hall. Also a “Gridder” like Chase — hiking all of the 48 every month of the year — our guest feels that Chase gets him, he’s taking the same medication, so to speak, making him an ideal companion on such an enormous undertaking. Chase provided […]
Spring is that magical season that blurs the lines between winter and summer. The season that delivers it all — metering it out through the three months from March to June. In the case of this trip: our guests were on an educational mountaineering adventure with their eye on bigger things very soon (Mt Rainier, 14,410′). The team was led by Redline Guide Glenn Van Neil. […]
With a title like that readers must know that it was Redline Guide Ken Hodges teaching this Digital Navigation course… featuring Gaia in this case. On speaking to the guest — which had recently taken our traditional wilderness navigation (map and compass) course — he had learned one thing right away he wished he knew only one day earlier, saving him hours. His enthusiasm for this […]
A visitor from the UK reached out to book a nature tour with us. What tour, exactly, was up to us but most of it is custom anyway. In this case the guest hoped to see a black bear. She knew this was very unlikely — that is the reality — but we tried. First stop was the Mahoosuc-Success Gateway WMA, a rather new Wildlife Management […]
A fellow who came to us as a referral from past guest of ours wanted to become an official LNT Awareness Trainer. He wanted to be able to officially train others to the LNT Awareness level, such as the members of an AMC group down in Massachusetts he’s part of. While many of the guides here are Awareness Level Trainers, we’re not able to teach and […]
Snowshoeing is possible as long as there is snow so when a guest visiting from the UK asked if she could have a day of snowshoeing, we said yes — though we added the disclaimer that a fair amount of hiking would be needed to get there. Redline Guide Chase Hall made the day an exciting one taking on the Mt Washington summit by way of […]
We’re entering into the season where people, hikers, are reaching out looking to up their game. One way this is accomplished is to take our Wilderness Navigation Course so as to become one with tools we’re required to carry. The reasons for this do vary a lot from those who simply want to better know their stuff in the general sense when hiking on the normal […]
A returning guest ‘needed‘ Owls Head for their GRID and Redline Guide Chase Hall — our resident Gridder — was ready to help. There weren’t many photos on this trip but Chase did supplement that shortage with some words — which made it sounds like our River Skills course more than a hike. Leave it to the White Mountain National Forest. There is no free lunch […]
Two groups of students, one with six people, the other with two, came together for two days of map and compass and brain class with Redline Guiding. Day one featured the standard full day Wilderness Navigation course. Day two was a brief re-cap of day one then the students were to create a bushwhack plan — one we’d end up not doing due to high water […]
It seems like we were just up there, up on the Moat Mountain Range (of 52WAV fame) but during monorail season those lower elevation southern aspects hold a lot of appeal. That’s what Redline Guide Howard Aronson figured when he chose the Moats for his three guests. Initially a North Moat loop seemed like it might be an option, but recent trail condition reports weren’t favorable. […]
While our guest did beat the Carters — South and Middle Carter, anyway — it really was the Carters that won. Carter Dome was supposed to be next you see and that plan was scrapped. The monorail’s to blame. Postholing can be tough business. So much so our guest wanted none of it on day two. The NH 4ks can wait. It was time to turn […]
