This page is not going to just be a sales pitch. In fact, I wasn't planning on selling from here at all. But I've often been asked about some of the items I use on my adventures. I happily share that information and will expand on it here. But for now, I'm going to add a few things that you can get from Amazon, that will help support the OAC at the same time. It is my intention to only list items that I have and have tested thoroughly. If it is something that I do not have first-hand knowledge of, I'll make sure that is clear.

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Coincidentally, we have three trips up north this spring and early summer to prepare for our ADK trip that will all use the same map: Sandwich Mountain, Mount Nancy, and Mount Chocorua. I really like the AMC maps. They offer a better scale than most of the other maps (some people complain because it isn't the 1:24,000 scale that the old USGS 7.5' maps were, but none of them are. They're printed on tyvek, though and they hold up very well.

 

Highly Recommended Maps: AMC White Mountains National Forest Trail Map Set

This includes one of each of the next four maps (actually six maps, because two of them have two maps), at almost half the price. I find myself using each of these maps at least once a year. Often, I use a couple of them more than once.

• AMC White Mountains Trail Map 1: Presidential Range

• AMC White Mountains Trail Map 2: Franconia–Pemigewasset

• AMC White Mountains Trail Maps 3-4: Crawford Notch-Sandwich Range and Moosilauke-Kinsman

  • This is the map we're using for each of our NH trips this spring/summer​

• AMC White Mountains Trail Maps 5–6: Carter Range–Evans Notch and North Country–Mahoosuc

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For Maine:

• AMC Maine Mountains Trail Maps 1–2: Baxter State Park–Katahdin and 100-Mile Wilderness

• AMC Maine Mountains Trail Maps 3–6: Bigelow Range, Camden Hills, Eastern Mount Desert Island, Mahoosuc Range, and Evans Notch (now that's a mouthful!)

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For Southern NH (think Mt Monadnock and Mt Cardigan):

• AMC Southern New Hampshire Trail Maps 1-4: Mount Monadnock (with historic features), Sunapee and Pillsbury State Parks, Mount Cardigan, and Belknap Range

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For Massachusetts (Greylock, Mt Tom, Wachusett Mtn):

• AMC Massachusetts Trail Maps 1-3: Northern Berkshires, Southwestern Massachusetts, and Wachusett Mountain State Reservation

• AMC Massachusetts Trail Maps 4–5: New England Trail North and Tully Trail and Mt. Tom State Reservation and Mt. Holyoke Range

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Books on Land Navigation:

• Wilderness Navigation, Mountaineering Books

• Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills

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Other Books of Interest

• Not Without Peril: 150 Years Of Misadventure On The Presidential Range Of New Hampshire

• The White Mountain Guide

• The 4000-Footers of the White Mountains

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

• Into the Wild

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Compasses

• Suunto MC-2 Compass

• Brunton TruArc 3 Compass

• Brunton TruArc 15 Mirrored Compass

• Silva Ranger 515 Compass

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Looking for other suggestions? Drop me a note at suggestions@oacmail.org