The Carters are known for making people re-visit them, to be grueling, to be annoying, to be in the way, and they lead to some hikers spouting expletives. Sometimes coining new ones along the way like the oft-heard “Effing Carters.” This trip’s returning guest had some previous experience with those peaks and asked us for company and moral support. We put Redline Guide Debra McCown on […]
Our many-time returning Grid-Getting-Guest was at it again, and as usual, this multi-weather hike was with Redline Guide Chase Hall. For our guest, as Chase notes, this one gets him one peak closer to his goal of hiking all of the 4000-footers, every month of the year: Gridding. My guest today Gridded out the month of October with a hike up Mount Garfield. The views were […]
A fit and experienced couple came to us wanting a guide for the famed, classic loop connected up high by the Franconia Ridge. As most do, our team ascended (the new and improved) Falling Waters Trail, crossed the Ridge from Little Haystack, to Lincoln, to Truman (North Lincoln), and to Lafayette, before descending Greenleaf Trail to Old Bridle Path back to the start. Redline Guide Chase […]
A father and son came to us hoping to hike a couple of somethings, asking “Claude” for advice along the way. Nothing was specified but the dad wanted his son to be introduced to a deeper level of nature and, with that said, left the planning to us. Doing said planning was Redline Guide Rhonda Willette. For the first of their two days with us, she […]
A new-to-us guest reached out looking for a hiking guide to accompany her on bagging mountains on the list of the 13 summits she still needs to complete hiking all of New Hampshire’s 48 4000-Footers. Before 70! On this first trip, she got two mountains closer with Wildcat A and D peaks now behind her. Only 11 to go now. Cheering her on was Redline Guide […]
A new guest, an experienced hiker, came to us from New Jersey hoping to summit our tallest mountain: Mt Washington . The forecast was making us think that a summit might not be possible as high winds could stymie their attempt. The idea of a Plan B mountain was even considered. But our guest wanted to go for it, even if something like Lion Head ended […]
It’s that time of year, people are trying to get things like working on their lists done before Mother Nature freezes the door shut on them. Leading this trip was Redline Guide Debra McCown, with her a returning guest interested in getting the Tripyramids done by way of the North and South Slides for the purpose of meeting the Mt Tripyramid Trail requirements for the Terrifying […]
It’s that time of the year, adding pumpkin spice to our hikes by going for something Terrifying. In this case, for this returning guest, this round was for the Huntington Ravine Trail (all the way to the Auto Road so it counts). The team traversed the Alpine Garden Trail to Lion Head which is the route they took down back to Tux. Leading was Redline Guide […]
A returning guest working on his NH 4000-Footers reached out hoping to snag two more peaks. The mountains in question were the North and Middle Tripyramids and, spoiler alert, our guest grabbed them both. Leading on this fine fall day was Redline Guide Rhonda Willette. Her summary and photos follow… Our guest reached #36 and #37 of the NH 48 on today’s hike of the Tripyramids. […]
Over the years we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with bits of certain lists. The motivation behind these requests varies a bit. Sometimes it’s the remoteness of trails (or lack thereof), or their technical difficulty, or the exposure they offer. Occasionally it has to do with notorious river crossing, and some it’s simply a worried spouse at home looking for some certainty. […]
A returning guest came to us looking to have our company on a couple more hikes. The first — day one — was Rogers Ledge in the Kilkenny Forest and day two was North Percy in the Nash-Stream Forest. Both excellent objectives and both are on the 52WAV list. Leading this was Redline Guide Rhonda Willette. Her comments and photos follow… Northern New Hampshire gave us […]
We had a returning guest reach out for another list-assist and we were glad to help. Last time he grabbed Cannon, diverted there thanks to the winds. This time was going to be a little more exciting with the hike taking place on Mt Jefferson, more so as this time they’d hike up and back on Caps Ridge Trail of T-25 fame. Leading again was Redline […]
