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		<title>Owl's Head, May 3, 2008</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=27689&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: May 3, 2008

Trails(s) Hiked: Lincoln Woods (Wilderness) Trail, Lincoln Brook Trail, various bushwhacks

Total Distance: 15.9 miles, 3000' vertical, 12-1/2 hours

Difficulty: Very difficult

Conditions: Very wet, rotten snow, postholing, borderline water crossings]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Sugarloaf - 04/27/2008</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=27438&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[b]Date(s) Hiked:  04-27-2008

Trails(s) Hiked: Zealand Road, Sugarloaf Trail

Total Distance: with road walk about 4.9 miles RT, about 1040 of elevation gain

Difficulty: pretty easy 

Conditions: Unlike Field &amp; Willey, this trail had almost no snow, just a smattering just below the stairs. A couple of easily stepped over trees, had to go around one on the trail above the junction.]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Willey &amp;amp; Field - April 27, 2008</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=27436&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: 04/27/2008

Trails(s) Hiked: Ethan Pond, Willey Range, Avalon Trail

Total Distance: approx. 7.7 with side trip to Ripley Falls

Difficulty: difficult as of yesterday

Conditions: not bad low, a little bit of mud &amp; snow on the spur trail to Ripley Falls, could bareboot it over mud &amp; snow a bit beyond the Ethan Pond/Willey Range junction but after that a lot of snow, some bare spots, &quot;the monorail&quot; is getting narrow &amp; hard to stay on. Almost went...]]></description>
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		<title>Hillman Highway 04/28/2008</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=27391&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: April 25-26 2008 
 
Trails(s) Hiked:Tuckerman Trail, Hillman Highway, and Sherburne.
 
Total Distance: Approx. 7 miles , 3400 Ft. elev. gain 
 
Difficulty: Moderate some steep sections 
 
Conditions: Sunny blue skies, no clouds, no wind, no rain (TB)]]></description>
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		<title>The AT from the CT border north</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=27206&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: April 19, 2008

Trails(s) Hiked: Appalachian Trail and some connector whose name I don't know

Total Distance: 12.9 miles

Difficulty: easy

Conditions: dry, sunny, felt hot, lots of blackflies]]></description>
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		<title>Pack Monadnock</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=25530&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: March 13, 2008

Trails(s) Hiked: Marion Davis trail to Warpack trail

Total Distance: Roughly 2.8 roundtrip

Difficulty:Fairly easy on the ascend. Only a few spots could have used minimal traction.
Traction would have helped greatly on the descend. The warpack had either started melting or rained and then snowed on top of it. With all the ledges on the way down it made for a slightly tricky situation plus I hiked this after work so light was getting pretty non existent when I hit...]]></description>
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		<title>Monadnock via Old Toll Road &amp;amp; White Arrow 03/07/08</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=25250&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked:  March 7, 2008

Trails(s) Hiked:  Old Tool Road &amp; White Arrow

Total Distance:  Roughly 4.5 miles RT

Difficulty: moderate overall, a lot of easy but crampon walking required being very careful as one wrong step in the wrong place could have proved very painful.... or worse. 

Conditions: mostly snow, some ice &amp; the cascade near where the White Arrows breaks out from the trees was frozen with feet of ice.]]></description>
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		<title>Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, NY</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=24972&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[4 of us made it to the Mohonk gate house around 10am.  We strapped on the snowshoes and made our way up the trail amongst many Nordic skiers.  Trails were about one foot of packed powder,  about 2-3 feet of wet powder in the woods.  Made it onto the hotel property in about 45 minutes and took a quick rest at the picnic area.  Another 10 minutes of hiking took us to the hotel grounds and the ice rink.  We stopped at the hotel for lunch (Expensive, but we had our wives with us.)  After lunch we...]]></description>
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		<title>Overlook Moutain - Catskills</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=24939&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Got to the parking lot around 11 AM and strapped on rented snowshoes. It was clear that I was the first person on the trail for today anyway, since there were no tracks yet in the freshly fallen snow. Perhaps about 6&quot; of new powder on top of 20&quot; to 25&quot; of harder packed snow, with larger drifts in places. Definitely snowshoe conditions. Sun and lake-effect clouds mixed, temperature about 40 F.

Made it to the hotel ruins around 12:15, took some pics, and hiked up to the fire tower. View from the...]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Field....Almost</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=24863&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: Feb 28 2008 

Trails(s) Hiked:Avaolon, A-Z trail, Willey Range Trail 

Total Distance:6.8, 2300 Ft. elev. gain 

Difficulty: Moderate some steep sections 

Conditions:  Very cold , Avalon and A-Z trail unbroken,  Willey Range trail all unbroken, 10-12 inches of fluffy stuff, some drifts on Willey Range Trail
Special Required Equipment: Cold weather gear,  flotation, hot soup for false summit.]]></description>
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		<title>Melissa's misfits misadventures</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=24346&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sung to Gilligan's island:


“Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of three misfits.
They skiied a winter wonderland
For a three hour tour,
A three hour tour.

The weather was really getting nice,]]></description>
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		<title>South &amp;amp; Middle Carter  - 02/17/2008</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=24290&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date Hiked:  Sunday, 02/17/2008

Trails(s) Hiked:  19 Mile, Carter Dome, Carter-Moriah, North Carter, Imp, Tote Road to Camp Dodge, short road walk on Route 16

Total Distance:  Approximately 9.75 miles &amp; 3500 feet of elevation gain

Difficulty:  Very Difficult, see conditions below

Conditions:  Trail Conditions: Able to bare boot it up to Zeta Pass, , from there back to Camp Dodge we were breaking trail, looked like just one set of tracks from Zeta pass all...]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Washington Summit Climb - 2/10/08</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=23971&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Drove up to N. Conway on Sat. night in moderate snow. Dinner at the Moat Mountain Brewery. Mmm. Burger.

At about 9 PM it started to dump. The next morning there was about 4-5&quot; of fresh in the parking lot. After struggling to get the car up the hotel driveway (it hadn't been plowed yet). I was at the trailhead with the EMS guide at 7:30 AM. Avy conditions at the board at Pinkahm were extreme for the bowl, and High for everywhere else. Yikes.


Pinkham @ 7:00
Trailhead @...]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Isolation, Bushwahck up, trails, sort of, down</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=23234&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: 01-26-2008

Trails(s) Hiked:Rocky Branch, part of Isolation Trail, Davis Path, Isolation Spur trail &amp; a lot of bushwhacking

Total Distance:  Unknown, if the standard trails are followed, RT would be 14.6.  I'd guess this was about 13.6 or so.

Difficulty:  Difficult, quite difficult

Conditions: snow, some open water, snow covered trees, icy ledges on the bushwhack, downed trees, low vertical corridor constantly hanging on my pack]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Willard</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=23231&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: 10-25-2008

Trails(s) Hiked:  Mt. Willard trail

Total Distance: 3.2 mile RT

Difficulty: easy

Conditions:  snow covered, well packed trail, brook had some open water but found one section where the ice held 235 pounds]]></description>
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		<title>Cannon Jan 13, 2008</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=22687&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: January 13, 2008

Trails(s) Hiked: Kinsman Ridge Trail

Total Distance: 8 Miles

Difficulty: Moderate

Conditions: Icy, crusty]]></description>
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		<title>Passacona…nope - Jan 5, 2008</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=22502&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: Jan 5, 2008

Trails(s) Hiked: Oliverian Brook, Passaconaway Cutoff, Square Ledge

Total Distance: 8.8 miles rt

Difficulty: Very difficult

Conditions: Soft, deep snow with unbroken trail]]></description>
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		<title>One out of three in the deep freeze!</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=22272&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: Jan 3 2008

Trails(s) Hiked:Avaolon, A-Z trail, Mt. Tom Spur trail

Total Distance:6.8,  2150 Ft. elev. gain 

Difficulty:Moderate some steep sections

Conditions:Bitter cold, Avalon and A-Z trail broken, but still some drifts, Mt. Tom Spur trail unbroken]]></description>
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		<title>Cannon Mt. on New Year's Eve</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=22097&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: 12/31/2007

Trails(s) Hiked: Lonsone Lake, Hi-Cannon &amp; Kinsman Ridge, returned same way

Total Distance:  5.8 RT approx 2350 feet elevation gain

Difficulty: moderate but short with one tough spot.

Conditions:  a few inches of fresh powder covering the well packed trails, minor drifting up high]]></description>
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		<title>Cabot &amp;amp; the Bulge from Mill Brook Road</title>
		<link>http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=20132&amp;goto=newpost</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Date(s) Hiked: 11-17-2007

Trails(s) Hiked: Unknown Pond &amp; Kilkenny trails

Total Distance: about 10 miles

Difficulty: moderate for this time of year

Conditions:  A couple of inches at the trailhead along with some water &amp; mud, as you got higher as expected snow got deeper. One or two trees down, easily passed, several widow makers still hung up ready to let loose. Near the top of Cabot one drift was about knee high.]]></description>
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