The Carters. Some love them, others not so much. But when you’re Gridding (hiking those 48 4ks every month of the year), like this oft-returning guest is, affection, or a lack thereof, takes a back seat to just getting them done. Fortunately, on the right day, with the right kind of weather and less sucky trail conditions, the Carters can be fun. Especially with the right […]
A guest contacted us from New Jersey/New York City area. She was familiar with the White Mountain National Forest having once lived in North Conway. In fact she named off a number of awesome random hikes from her past including Avalon, the Moats, Nancy Pond Trail to Norcross Pond, Kearsarge North, the Presidentials, Baldfaces, and others. Since that time, the interest in such things still strong, […]
That’s what they call themselves, Schwabbies, and if you hadn’t guessed already, they work for the Charles Schwab company. In the area for other reasons, and staying at the Omni Mt Washington Resort, they had a half day to let loose and wanted us to hike them up something, together, as a team. Redline Guides Ken Hodges and Chase Hall decided to lead them up Mt […]
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 […]
