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December 2007 was the snowiest December in Concord in 130 years, so maybe there will be an extended winter hiking season this year. Allow extra time for hiking and expect brooks to be running high also.
Broken Links
Visitors to this site are unfortunately finding a large number of broken links. Some of that is because the system formerly hosting the hike time estimator and the photos is gone. Until a replacement is found, most photos are unavailable but the estimator can be found here.
Where broken links are to pages off our site, we try to keep up with them and some users have been helpful in finding their new locations. The White Mountain National Forest is redoing their site and some pages have vanished - we'll keep the links until they put them back.
Google Maps now will supply directions to coordinates as well as street addresses so just paste the trailhead coordinates from the trail descriptions into their directions field. Topozone.com continues to modify their query format and it is impossible to keep all the map links up to date, if a trail map looks peculiar use the left column controls to expand it. See Using Online Maps for tips in using these sites.
This site was created to provide information on places to hike in New Hampshire. All of the content is free to end users (although it is copyrighted and commercial use is not allowed).
The many printed guidebooks to hiking in New Hampshire all suffer from the problems of a print publishing cycle. By the time a batch of descriptions is edited, printed, bound, and sold, most of them are probably a year or more old. If a hiker finds that a trail is closed or relocated, a bridge is washed out or the access road closed for repair, they can write to the guidebook publisher and get a nice letter in response. At best the publisher might add a printed errata sheet to unsold books, but this change will not appear in the books already sold! Changes to maps or pictures will probably wait for the next edition several years in the future. Even those publishers who sell trail descriptions online do not seem to update them when corrections are submitted.
There aren't yet webcams on all trails or instant messaging to PDAs of other hikers who are already there (and I'm not sure I'll like it when there are), but a web-based guidebook can cut the correction cycle by an order of magnitude or two. Our goal is to review e-mail weekly and post an average of one new trail description per week. We are not an insurance company and cannot guarantee that all the information on this site is accurate or up to date, but if you report an error in the Forum, others can see it right away and we can fix the original faster than a print publisher can! And if you bookmark a description of interest, you can check whether it is updated as often as you want rather than having to wait a year or more for a new print edition.
Readers are invited to comment in the associated Forum. Is the description fine or are there errors? If you liked or disliked the trail, why? Someone else may like a feature you dislike or vice versa so please be specific. If you know about a trail not yet listed, write about it in the Forum or write a complete description.
Some of the things we expect to include on this site are:
For now we'll avoid topics such as equipment reviews and hiking technique that are not specific to New Hampshire.
We have copyrighted the content on this site to prevent others from making commercial use of our hard work. Individuals are invited to print this information for their own use. Please ask your friends to visit the site themselves and make their own copies - it is one way to get the word out about this site!
When you go from one article to another, or to an index or trail description, it will be opened in the same window.
Requesting a trail description from a trail description will open it in a new window so you can see the descriptions together. Maps are also opened in new windows so you can view them with the description.
Choosing the Forum from the top of the page will not open a new window, but choosing discussion from the bottom brings a new window so the original page remains visible.
Any page from another site is opened in a new window.
Our first page went live in January 2002, and over 20 pages were up by June when our hosting provider suddenly changed their business model. Negotiations with a new provider ceased when they suddenly vanished, but we have now located what we hope to be a reputable long-term home.
The content, forum, and e-mail are all hosted separately, so hopefully everything will not vanish at once in the future. Several of these sites include their ads as part of the hosting service; we have no control over what is advertised but please give these sponsors due consideration and report problems if any here so they can be passed along to the ISP.
This site is put together by volunteers at their own expense, and we can always use more help.
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