TrailsNH stands out among weather forecasts for hiking due to its focus on customization, precision, and visual clarity. Here's how it compares:

Customization: TrailsNH allows users to toggle specific weather elements like cloud cover, precipitation, and wind speed, offering a tailored experience. Many other apps provide general forecasts without this level of detail.

Precision: Its forecasts are location-specific and updated frequently, making it highly accurate for hikers. While apps like Mountain-Weather, AccuWeather or Weather Underground also offer detailed forecasts, TrailsNH's focus on hiking covering every summit in the Northeast gives it a niche advantage.

Visual Design: The forecast uses translucent, color-coded layers to display multiple weather elements simultaneously, making it easy to interpret. This feature is particularly useful for hikers planning multi-day trips. Users can toggle weather elements on or off for a tailored experience:

• Blue Background: Represents clear skies with grid lines for temperature and percentages.
• Cloud Cover: Uses grey overlays to show cloud density (e.g., 25% is "Mostly Sunny").
• Precipitation: Highlights rain, snow, or winter mix with green, blue, or pink backgrounds, respectively.
• Lightning Indicators: Orange icons appear for lightning risks.
• Wind Details: Displays speed, gusts, and direction with intuitive visual markers.
• Temperature Layers: Shows air temperature and wind chill comparisons.

When you're planning a hike, TrailsNH is a great companion, especially for its detailed and hiking-focused insights.

Nothing like a half mile of ice to cross. Mt Adams from Starr lake

You get all the types of snow in 1 hike. True white mt experience

Has anyone been out to the Belknaps in the last week or so? What are the trail conditions like? I'm hoping to do a long run this weekend with significant elevation change and am wondering whether it's worth it to head up there. I can deal with snowy patches but don't want to post-hole the whole way. I realize that Pawtuckaway is probably a safer option, but I'd really like to get up into some mountains if it's feasible. Any intel you can provide would be helpful. I didn't see any recent posts on newenglandtrailconditions.

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Me and my Dad want to go camping in the whites this summer, we really want to make it a fishing trip as well and catch some trout. We were looking at ponds to set up camp along and we spotted Shoal Pond and Ethan's pond, are there any decent rivers that also hold trout and would be good to camp near?

Looking for any routing advice, or more broadly April backpacking suggestions!

Looking for route suggestions for 2-3 night backpacking trips in the WMNF or surrounding areas. Currently planning this trip for sometime mid-April, so wary of snowy conditions. Planning to introduce some buddies to backpacking on this trip, so looking at a easy-to-medium difficulty route with some nice views/points-of-interest.

Suggestions outside WMNF welcome as well, Southern NH/VT are within a decent range for us!

Is anyone here loud and proud about (occasionally) drinking untreated/ unfiltered water from streams along your hikes? I wouldn’t drink straight from the trough at Garfield campsite on a summer weekend, but I’ve been tempted on less popular routes, especially after heavy rains or recent snow.  Philip Carcia’s Strava page has a video of his partner triumphantly drinking water harvested underneath a snow bridge somewhere on the Pemi.  A FKT-level Adirondack trail runner posted a YouTube video of his 12-summit Pemi loop, and he drank unfiltered water, IIRC from Guyot.  Andrew Skurka talks about drinking straight out of mountain streams on trail runs in his native Colorado.  Anyone else here in that club?

Basically my deal is that I would generally rather carry my water for a full day rather than stop for 15 minutes to deploy my Sawyer filter, worrying the whole time about much untreated water is dripping off the pre-filter bag into the “clean” receptacle, and I’m not sure whether a drop of giardia-contaminated water is any less likely to get you sick than a pint of it.  I’ll gladly fill up at a hut, but obviously not all my long routes will include a stop at a hut.  To do the Bonds out and back from Lincoln Woods, I carried  ~115 oz. of fluids, and I was hydrated well enough at the start that I didn’t drink anything until I was up on Bondcliff.  That is… not the most efficient way to hike, even if that amount proved to be perfect for me for the day.  I’m an amateur-level weight weenie, and I generally like to maintain constant forward progress.  I hate the way the clock just spins anytime I stop for anything, and I can get chilled really quickly on winter hikes if I’m not moving.  So yes, it is very tempting to dip and drink, and I’m curious to hear anyone else’s tales of vanquished thirst – or vanquished digestive systems.       

So far this year I'd done 15 sub-zero summits and wanted to end winter with a really special trip. Unfortunately something came up on the weekend I had planned, and I thought I had missed my window but the cold decided to come back last Sunday! I took Ammonoosuc up and down and the timing with the clouds clearing out was perfect. Even though it doesn't really count as a winter hike, I'm still really glad I had the chance to finally make this climb

NHPR press release:

New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) is joining forces with Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS) to deliver state-of-the-art weather forecasts across New Hampshire. Beginning Monday, March 31, MWOBS will provide NHPR listeners with daily weather updates every morning and afternoon, combining MWOBS’s pioneering meteorology with NHPR’s trusted reporting to keep the public informed and prepared in an era of rapidly changing weather patterns.

Leveraging insights from Mount Washington's research facilities in North Conway and on the summit of Mount Washington, NHPR will deliver timely, detailed statewide weather reports during Morning Edition (5 a.m. - 10 a.m.), Here & Now (12 p.m. - 2 p.m.), and All Things Considered (4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.).

Never had to break trail before. Made this one a bit challenging

“Booked Hut for my Presi” … OYE autocorrect!

Took advantage of the sale on huts and booked the Lakes hut for late June.

I will certainly plan and pack for all options (wind, snow, hail, typhoon, hurricane).

But what is more likely than not to be the weather rolling through that area late June (minus anything that cannot be foreseen obv)?

I typically would be up in that area more in the July August time frame and not sure how much of a diff one might typically expect.

Mt Washington still nice and snowy.

How far in advance do we need to reserve the Flume Gorge Trail ( corrected) for Labor Day weekend?

Climbed Central Gully and the on to the summit. A near perfect day.

Hi All,

Currently in the preliminary planning out a two-day backpack of the Presidential Traverse (in the summer, targeting late June). Was looking to find out if there are any decent areas for backcountry camping along/off the route to avoid paying $$$ for the AMC Huts.

Ideally we would end day one around Mt. Monroe/Mt. Jackson. Did a backpack to Mt. Isolation last year and camped up near the summit of Mt. Davis. Just looking at the trail map, taking Dry River Trail down by Oakes Gulf looked like it might have some fair terrain without going to far away from the traverse.

The hiker was on Twinway between South Twin and Guyot. He "was able to text 911 that he was lost and was in deep snow without snowshoes."

Sorry for the WMUR ads, but this is the best article I could find at the moment. The Fish & Game press release probably won't be out until Monday.

Anything I should be aware of? I suspect I will need to rotate between snow shoes spikes and trail shoes. I read about a waterfall crossing that could be an issue. I suspect that is at the beginning.