Hiking

I'm very cautious when mountain climbing throughout thunderstorm season, particularly above the treeline the place there isn't a safety from lightning, hail, and excessive winds. I’ve simply had too many shut calls the place thunderstorms have caught me...

When gearing up for winter day mountaineering in New Hampshire’s White Mountains you need footwear, clothes, and traction aids that can be utilized throughout a variety of temperatures, wind speeds, solar, precipitation sorts, and floor circumstances. For instance,...

Are you uninterested in compromising on campsites, path weight-reduction plan, and the tempo at which you hike? Listed here are fourteen causes you would possibly think about giving pals and important others the flick, and as a substitute...

A backpacking or tenting sleeping pad’s R-value measures its resistance to warmth loss to the bottom whenever you lie on it at evening. Pads with greater R-values do that extra successfully than pads with decrease R-values. R-value isn’t...

Positioned in northeastern Italy, the Dolomites are one in all Europe’s most dramatic mountain ranges. A mixture of serrated limestone peaks, sheer cliffs, shimmering alpine lakes and deep, slender valleys, they've lengthy been a magnet for geologists, travellers...

Winter isn’t a lot of a season within the White Mountains as an altitude. The onset of winter all the time begins on the increased elevations first with freezing rain and snow earlier than the snow line drops...

The Terrifying 25 is a well-liked record of adverse and at instances terrifying mountaineering trails in New Hampshire’s White Mountains compiled by Trish Herr, the writer of Up! A Mom and Daughter’s Peakbagging Journey, and her daughters Alex and...

Everytime you plan hikes in uncovered terrain, it’s helpful to plan out escape routes in case an surprising thunderstorm storm or blizzard blows in, you encounter white-out situations, avalanche situations, flash floods, forest fires, or it is advisable...

Dachstein Excessive Heat Wool Mittens are very heat boiled wool mittens in style with mountaineers. Made with very dense boiled wool (extra on this under), they’re windproof and nearly waterproof. When the mercury drops close to zero or...

The White Mountains 4000 Footer Grid, referred to as The Grid, requires climbing all 48 of the mountains on the White Mountains 4000 footer checklist, as soon as every calendar month. That equates to 48 x 12 or...