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Post by ridgerunner on Feb 19, 2009 10:06:53 GMT -5
This board is for you the hiker to tell us what you think of the trail. What's good and what's bad. Let us know what kind of events you would like to see. Anything trail related to make this a better experience for everyone.
This would help us a great deal in making this a world class trail. So please, let us know what you think.
Ridgerunner
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Post by davidnh on May 20, 2009 16:09:55 GMT -5
One think I'd like to see, either in a revised guidebook or on the website, would be a mileage table showing cumulative mileages and just distance from one point to the next. It would make planning a lot easier.
Is there, or could one construct a bridge over the dry river? Or perhaps that is more in the AMC's discretion than TCTA.\
Beyond that, I'll wait till I have hiked the trail this summer.
David
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Post by MtnMagic on Jul 20, 2009 9:47:04 GMT -5
The USFS controls the Dry River Wilderness. Since it is a wilderness designated by the current Federal Regulations, no gas engines, mile signage, structures or bridges are to be built. What formally existed remains. When the bridge finally washes away, there are no plans to rebuild it, that is it, just a memory. Unless of course if the present rules are amended.
When the last 12 miles or so, of the CT are negotiated and finalized with the landowners, when cut, puncheons in place, blazings & signage completed, perhaps the newest maps will have a "map adventures" style with mileage in between junctions. Yes it would make it easier -- then again maybe too easy!
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Post by MtnMagic on Jul 22, 2009 19:21:48 GMT -5
The CT could really use a lean-to shelter, or 2, somewhere in the Nash Stream Forest. You truly are in nowheresville and truly nowhere to ditch but to continue onward. After a few to many days of rain, like we had this season, it would be such a delight to get out of a tent into a shelter and dry out what needs to dry.
Each of your $1000 contributions are tax deductible. C'mon good readers, help us with thoughtful contributions of money, materials, labor, and/or inspiration. Time to give back!
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Post by MtnMagic on Aug 3, 2009 9:06:03 GMT -5
The CT needs a solid destination hut! One pivotal place to spend some time in the great unknown. Just one lone hut to hike solo to, take a friend, or one's family for a day or days! To wash the spirit clean, to cleanse the soul, to receive far more than he seeks.
The Chatham, NH Hiking Club has their Cold River Camps, DOC, WOC, UNH, RMC, & the AMC, et al, all have (at least) that one base hut to get away to. For R & R, a base camp, and for income to grow.
TCTA *Needs* that first important hut. "Our hut" to go to. A reasonable 3-4 mile walk w/a parking lot. Greeted by a smiling attendant, have a hot shower, a hot meal, a real bed. "Our destination, their destination." To get TCTA ball rolling ...then steam rolling!
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Post by MtnMagic on Aug 18, 2009 5:44:37 GMT -5
A tyvek map would be a great addition to the online store. The idea of point to point mileage is a very wise choice also. Tyvek is almost non-ripable and the ink would remain nicely, regardless of the number of times folded, dropped in a stream, or rained on. Thru hikers would most definitely appreciate a bullet proof map. As would the trail crew.  |
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Post by pedxing on Aug 19, 2009 7:55:05 GMT -5
I second the tyvek or other waterproof maps. Mostly I tried to look at my maps through the plastic of zip lock bag, but opening the bags a couple times in the rain (for closer examination or turn the map over when I entered new section) was enough to have the map disolving on me.
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Post by MtnMagic on Aug 28, 2009 6:10:40 GMT -5
Printed Cohos Trail Newsletters at the shelters, the upcoming kiosks, and at major road/trail junctions. Also should be a wall map on the kiosks, an 8.5" x 11" printed map, and a listing of out and back hikes from that point. Our online newsletters speak so much every month. Now let us share it with the hiking world. Let us publicize *everything* you ever wanted to learn, know, or discover about the Cohos Trail. To make the unknown be known, to the public, to all hiking circles, and to be hiked regularly. The CT is absolutely ready now!
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Post by jrichard on Sept 6, 2009 16:18:10 GMT -5
I also like the idea of mileage on the maps. Of course, that takes some of the fun out of planning.  The complaints I've heard most are about wet feet, tall grass, and road walks. Road walks are being vanquished. It seems like the grass is almost under control. Not sure what can be done about the wet feet. I don't think the snowmobiles, skiers, or the lawn mower would appreciate bog bridges. Ditching could work, but I think there are just places where the mossy ground is going to be wet... I'm thinking of the trails south of table rock. My personal pet peeve is ticks. Anything you can do to get rid of them is good with me.  |
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Post by MtnMagic on Sept 14, 2009 19:11:11 GMT -5
I think through hikers of the CT know best the conditions of each section of trail. I'm thinking that 3-4 members of the Board of Directors should review each suggestion of the Hut & Trail Supervisor and that 2-3 separate signatures be needed on checks to approve the trail /hut work, before it is started.
This in order to use monies much more efficiently and effectively. Sounds like common sense to me. Your thoughts, please?
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Post by MtnMagic on Sept 15, 2009 5:31:24 GMT -5
Having a well deserved spring mattress to sleep on and a hot shower somewhere mid journey.
What's good about a lot of ideas is that it makes the best ones seem even better.
Wanted: more ideas.
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Clean Beds
$.50
Sign in Camp Kirk
circa 1950
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Post by MtnMagic on Sept 15, 2009 6:08:21 GMT -5
Have infomercial CD's to send to Coos businesses, corporations, outfitters and individuals on the benefits of sponsoring a structure in the proposed wooden hut system. And the pleasure it is to hike the Cohos Trail. I know several sharp, very talented people with film making experience, who could direct this superbly. The viewer would see the many beautiful mountains, lakes, forests, shelters, camps, & points of interest that are on the fantastic Cohos Trail. Experience the CT in your own home!
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Post by sugarloaf on Sept 15, 2009 10:40:26 GMT -5
Got to like the 5-gallon solar shower bag (handfilled) from Texport. A little old-time Bon Ami soap and you'd feel like a king or queen, whomever you, the reader, may be.
Showering in the buff in the embrace of 200-million-year-old mountains works for me. That'd make me feel frisky all over again (been a while).
Got to like the $5.00 LifeStraw from LifeStraw industies. It's a highly effective water filter used like a straw. It can filter 175 gallons of water. Enough to get you through the Cohos Trail a few dozen times.
Could use a good bootleg potato or corn whiskey still just off the trail, say on the south flank of Dixville Peak. That would make the slog that much easier.
Could use a few bunks under a roof high on a mountain so one can catch the sunrise above 3,000 feet before the termites getcha (as Babe Ruth would say).
sugarloaf
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Post by goshawk on Sept 16, 2009 20:15:35 GMT -5
We should develop a "blueprint for sustainability." One way would be a wood injected and fully turbocharged, twin independent, dual individual huts.
goshawk
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