White Mountain Sojourn

Happy Valentine’s Day! The weekend mountain weather seems to be in a rut. The past several weekends the winds have been extreme, temperatur...

A winter hike to Galehead is, at best, a long slog, a death march of sorts, the bottom half anyway, because the access road is closed in win...

During the day today I saw lots of moose tracks (above) and lots of mouse tracks (below) i n the snow . The mouse tracks are from a tiny whi...

The slide, shown in this picture taken in October 1974, launched from the Garfield Ridge either on August 19th 1954 in Hurricane Carol or on...

The picture on top taken in 1968 is looking from south to north on the Gale River Trail. The boulders just to the left of center in the phot...

Then in these photos from this afternoon (2-14-09) you can see the extent of the vegetation on top of the slide now. It’s mostly balsam fir ...

Several people who have read through my lengthy exploration of the glacial history of the White Mountains asked if this "bowl" (ce...