The web is changing fast. Search engines aren’t the only systems crawling websites anymore—AI models, retrieval engines, and “answer bots” now index public content to power their responses. For a site like TrailsNH, which publishes curated, geo‑tagged, real‑time hiking information, this shift matters. To protect that work while still allowing responsible AI access, TrailsNH now … Continue reading Why TrailsNH Now Uses an llms.txt File — And Why Your Website Might Need One Too
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2025 River Edition Sticker
Sticker #3: Flow State The third sticker in the Up a Mountain, Down a Beer – TrailsNH Sticker Series shifts the pace—celebrating the calm that flows between climbs. It’s a nod to the quiet bends in the trail and the first sip by the brook at golden hour. For this design, I used Copilot to … Continue reading 2025 River Edition Sticker
2024 Shimmering Lake Sticker
Sticker #2: Sunset Pour The second entry in the Up a Mountain, Down a Beer – TrailsNH Sticker Series captures that unbeatable post-hike moment when the sun dips low and a cold one goes down easy. This circular design features a pint glass filled with a vivid sunset scene—molten orange skies melting into shadowed peaks, … Continue reading 2024 Shimmering Lake Sticker
TrailsNH Turns 15 Years Old
TrailsNH turns 15 years old today. I registered the domain name on November 17th 2008. It took me another 6 months before the first version of website was ready to go live. I created TrailsNH out of my passion for hiking and coding, and to share my skills with other hikers. I wanted to create … Continue reading TrailsNH Turns 15 Years Old
AMC Four Thousand Footers
The White Mountain 4000 Footers list is a quest for hikers, with rules like a game. The rules are a hiker must walk, run, or ski on foot to the top of each peak on the list and back. When the hiker has climbed (sometimes called “bagged”) each peak on the list they qualify for … Continue reading AMC Four Thousand Footers
New Sticker Designs for TrailsNH
This year I’ve created two new sticker designs for TrailsNH. The goal for the stickers is to help promo and fund the site. If you are interested, you can order stickers from the TrailsNH Sticker Shop Up A Mountain, Down A Beer Sticker I’ve been trying to create a design for “Up A Mountain, Down … Continue reading New Sticker Designs for TrailsNH
2023 Big Peak Sticker
1: The Original Pour This is where the series began. The inaugural sticker in the Up a Mountain, Down a Beer – TrailsNH Sticker Series captures the moment that sparked a whole collection. Equal parts rugged and radiant, this circular design features a pint glass filled with a mountain sunset—vivid orange light against teal-hued skies, … Continue reading 2023 Big Peak Sticker
REI Bedford NH – Spring 2023 Update
This is a follow up to my post about the REI Bedford Announcement, back in Fall 2022. REI announced in November 2022 their second NH store would be in Bedford NH. The first NH REI store opened in North Conway NH in 2019, but it’s not convenient unless you live in the North Country. The … Continue reading REI Bedford NH – Spring 2023 Update
Least and Most Searched Peaks of the NH 52 With A View Hiking List of 2022
Looking at Hiking Trends of 2022 and my year end review for TrailsNH, here are the Top 5 (most popular) and Bottom 5 peaks (least popular) on the NH 52 WAV hiking list: Most Searched NH 52 With A View Least Searched NH 52 With A View The most popular 52 WAV peak, Mt Monadnock … Continue reading Least and Most Searched Peaks of the NH 52 With A View Hiking List of 2022
TrailsNH Hiking Trends of 2022
Here are the top 5 peaks for each major hiking list in the Northeast for 2022. The rank is based on hikers looking up the summit forecast, trail map, or trail reports on TrailsNH.com 4000 Footers New Hampshire 4000 Footers 1 Mount Washington NH 2 Mount Lafayette NH 3 Mount Moosilauke NH 4 Mount Adams … Continue reading TrailsNH Hiking Trends of 2022
REI Announces Bedford NH Store!
REI announced last week they will be opening an REI store in Bedford NH, in Fall 2023. TrailsNH.com couldn’t be more excited to have REI only 10 miles from my headquarters in Goffstown. See my May 2023 update on the REI Bedford NH Store The REI Bedford Store will be a large 22,000 square foot … Continue reading REI Announces Bedford NH Store!
2014-2015 Snow Depth at AMC Huts
Ezoic – 6 Month Review (March 2022)
My hiking website TrailsNH started running Ezioc Ads in August 2021. This is my 6-Month Review of the Ezoic Ad Network as a Publisher. To get caught up, check out my earlier Ezoic Reviews: Week-1 with Ezoic and Week-5 with Ezoic. Ezoic offers many services for Publishers beyond running ads. I do not need or … Continue reading Ezoic – 6 Month Review (March 2022)
Google Featured Snippets: Short answers for Who, What, When, Where, Why, How and Is
Recently I have been picking up extra web traffic with Google Featured Snippets. Below is what I learned so far about them and simple steps you can follow for adding them to your website. What Are Featured Snippets? Google uses Featured Snippets to provide a short quick answer for Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How type … Continue reading Google Featured Snippets: Short answers for Who, What, When, Where, Why, How and Is
TrailsNH DB Outage
Yesterday, November 4th TrailsNH had a 5 hour database outage. The database was near but not over the maximum space allocation, and a mistake made by my hosting company caused them to shut down access to the database. Three days prior (November 1st) my hosting company informed me I was over the limit by almost … Continue reading TrailsNH DB Outage
Week-5 With EZOIC
EZOIC Ads went live on my hiking website TrailsNH.com about 5 weeks ago. This post covers what I learned over the last 4 weeks. See Week-1 With EZOIC for what I learned prior to this. Is EZOIC A Scam? EZOIC is not a scam. I have received my first revenue check from EZOIC. It’s just a … Continue reading Week-5 With EZOIC
Week-1 With EZOIC
EZOIC ads went live this week on TrailsNH. This post covers a bit of the signup process and how the first week went.
Give Google What It Wants, And They Will Come
This time last year I went all out on a plan. I had known for some time the website was not providing what Google wanted, the way it wanted it. The site was 10 years old now, and the content missed the target SEO-wise as far as Google was concerned. What SEO? Simply put, SEO … Continue reading Give Google What It Wants, And They Will Come
TrailsNH Gift Certificate Giveaway Contest Rules
In a few weeks (mid-May 2019?) the forest roads will start opening up. Anyone who helps out on TrailsNH by changing a forest road to “Open” or confirms a road is open gets entered to win a $20 gift certificate from my friends at The Notch Hostel. TrailsNH follows 41 forest road in the Whites, and … Continue reading TrailsNH Gift Certificate Giveaway Contest Rules
Parsing HTML5 IMG srcset
I needed a simple function to use in a TrailsNH Bot to find the largest image in an HTML5 srcset. Here’s what I came up with. function getLargestImage($srcsetString){ $images = array(); // split on comma $srcsetArray = explode(“,”, $srcsetString); foreach($srcsetArray as $srcString){ // split on whitespace – optional descriptor $imgArray = explode(” “, trim($srcString)); // … Continue reading Parsing HTML5 IMG srcset
