"This one was a combination road walk/bushwhack in Groton State Forest. No views from the wooded summit, but a beautiful day nonetheless. It seems the only foot traffic Signal sees is from people doing the NE's Fifty Finest Challenge. The last entry in the journal was March of 2020." — billsussdorff • Jun 24, 2021

"Hiked the Franconia Ridge in the White Mountains of New Hampshire on Sunday, May 30. The forecast over the last few days had dropped like 20 degrees and the chance of rain was steadily increasing, so we nearly abandoned the plan to do this hike, but I’m so glad we didn’t. We drove to Boston Saturday night and stayed with a friend, then a shorter 2 hour drive to the trailhead in NH early in the morning. We started hiking about 8 am and it was good weather to start, mid 40s and partly cloudy. I just wore my long sleeve shirt with no jacket to start because I knew I would get warm quickly. I had thin gloves but took them off almost immediately and stored them in my pockets (and stupidly didn’t put them on again later). The hike started out with some beautiful waterfalls and pretty quickly gaining elevation – a lot of the elevation gain is in the first 2-3 miles with 3480 ft gain in 4 miles. As we climbed you could feel it getting cooler but I waited until about 2.5 hrs in when we got to the first summit – Little Haystack, which is about 4800 ft. But that was a mistake because as soon as we got up there it was like being hit with a wall of freezing wind. I don’t know what the mph wer..." — kvander • May 30, 2021

"Started out warm heading up Lambert Ridge. Lots a birds on the trail. Oven, Cat, Black Burnian Warbler, Golden Crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush and Winter Wren to name the most interesting ones. A little windy climbing the fire tower steps. But it was open at the top so that was interesting. Had lunch at the tent site, heard lots of thunder to the north and west. Sounded close so we headed down Ranger. Ran into light rain the last mile. " — Alohabuffy • May 16, 2021

"Hiked Mount Kearsarge via the Lincoln Trail. Very warm and sunny today. Trail was mostly dry with some muddy spots. Really nice views. I forgot to turn on my watch until 20 minutes in, but was about 2,700 feet vertical and over 9 miles. Took the Rollins trail loop for the first 0.5 miles from the summit as the Lincoln trail was steep on the last push to the summit." — mattgardner • May 15, 2021

"A quick hike up Moosilauke to gain another Grid peak. Some wind chill up along the summit today. I didn't stay to long despite the beautiful views. I headed back to the car. Then drove to Portsmouth, met up with Molly, then up to Deer Isle for the night for the Bar Harbor trip. " — newenglandwarrior • May 14, 2021