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Backcountry Hygiene Tips: Or How to Eat without Touching Your Food

How to eat like a horse - out of a food bag, rather than touching your food

I don’t carry any hand sanitizer on day hikes and backpacking trips. I used to, but it’s pretty pointless when you get right down to it. Yeah, I’d slather Purell on after I filtered stream water or went to the bathroom, or before I ate a meal. But once you leave the trailhead, your hands are going to get dirty as soon as …

The Cohos Trail, pronounced “Co-Haus”, is a long distance hiking trail in New Hampshire’s North Country, a wild and remote expanse of forest, mountains, lakes, and rivers situated between Crawford Notch in the White Mountain National Forest and the US-Canadian border. Running 162 miles through Coos County (the modern spelling of Cohos), the Cohos opens up a vast unexplored territory …

Birch Glade on the Wild River Valley Ski Trail

The two most popular routes to climb Wildcat A and D are to hike up the 19 Mile Brook Trail from Carter Notch or to climb the Polecat Trail from the Wildcat Ski Resort. I took a very different route up to WildCat D on Friday, hiking up the Halls Ledge Trail from RT 16 and continuing to the summit via …

This moss covered sign is showing its age

This is part 2 of my trip report up the East Branch Pemigewasset River (the Pemi) to scout a second river crossing at Stillwater Junction and beginning of the Shoal Pond Trail which links Carrigan Notch to the Ethan Pond Trail. I’ll be passing through this way on my White Mountain Challenge Route and since I’ve never hiked in this area, I wanted to …