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2 08-30 SA – Up Rainbow to Carter Dome – down Black Angel to Wild River loop

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Always in progress . . . Next morning started around 7 (I opened my eyes at 07:22). Around 8:40 AM, I started my hike. For that day, I planned to complete a circle – climb 4,832 Carter Dome mountain, descend on a Black Angel trail, and complete the […]

1 08-29 FR – Off to a wild New Hampshire

2025-04-01 Udar Gromov 0

Life is always in progress until it is not This time it was a special trip. I used all the accumulated information and wisdoms of previous trips on this trip. I woke up really early on Friday morning August 29 2014 (04:39 AM), checked the weather one last time […]

07 August 22, 2010: Genova – Columbus and Paganini

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And just when you think there is nothing can beat the excitement of the highest mountains in Europe, you proceed to the road ahead. Next day, Sunday, August 22, we decided to bypass Turin and go directly to Genova. We typed in an address of Red House Hostel (Via B.Buozzi, 26/9) in […]

06 August 21,2010: It’s a Mountain Time – Rifugio Monzino

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Finally, on Saturday, August 21, 2010 it was time to take our first hike into the mountains. Back in Boston I picked a path going up towards Monte Bianco (Italian) from Italian side. It was a day trip starting from 1,500m parking lot and going as high as 2,590m at […]

05 August 20, 2010 – Wake in Switzerland, Eat in France, Sleep in Italy

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On the morning of August 20, Friday we woke up in Geneva. You have to show your hotel receipts at the kitchen counter to get your breakfast. Lots of people of all ages. Some tourists, but some looked like ready to take off for work. As usual, the roads were […]

08 May 2017 Bog Dam Road trip – Lessons learned

2025-03-18 Udar Gromov 0

A new mode of camping was adopted for this trip. My camp was off a very remote section of the White Mountain Forest. Plus, road was blocked by construction. My base camp was 0.6 miles on bike from the car, and then another 0.4 miles on foot. That was far […]

07 Tuesday, May 30 – We are so distracted by day job from our trail lives

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07:00 – I remember waking up very early and planning in my head how to break the camp most efficiently. There was no rain, but everything outside was dripping wet. First to be folded and packed were sleeping bag and pads, food and clothes, kitchen and bath bags. Among first […]

04 August 18-19, 2010: Fribourg – Montreux (Nabokov) – Geneva

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Morning and early afternoon on Wednesday, August 18 we spent in Fribourg (Freiburg in German). This town is a perfect model for Disney World for adults. It simply has everything. It is the capital of a canton (like a state in US). It has upper town and a lower town. […]

06 Monday, May 29 – Mud, jaws, bridge and rain

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Woke up at 05:51 – the record and without any hesitation I was ready to leave the camp in just half an hour. 06:31 start excursion number 4 – “Pond of Safety” Road is a mess. All 5 yards of it. Road is very wide here, but it has no […]

05 Sunday, May 28 – Relax to Unknown Pond

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This was the only sunny and even hot day of this trip. Wake up at 7AM. As today will be rain-free, I will put on old boots and leave new boots to dry out on sticks all day in the camp. Large new back pack all this time just having […]

04 Saturday, May 27 – Visibly Invisible Trail (Hunters Pass) to Ice Gulch

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07:20 wake up and put on dry socks and dry boots. Second breakfast of fallen birches – cantaloupe from Walmart cut by machete. 08:55 depart of an “excursion” number 2. I did not even take paper map with me – there is everything on iPhone GPS topo maps. Today’s trip […]