Sunday, September 2, 2018 Start: Duxbury Rd/Black Barn Farm End: Birch Glen Shelter Mileage: 15.7 on LT Elevation gain/loss: 5645’/3952′ After an adventure at Black Barn Farm and a lovely zero day in Waterbury hitting up Cabot and Ben & Jerry’s, among others, we were ready to hit the trail again. Last night, we petitioned … Continue reading Long Trail, day 8
Friday, August 31, 2018 Start: Puffer Shelter End: Duxbury Rd/Black Barn Farm Mileage: 14.7 on LT Elevation gain/loss: 1412’/4154′ The sun starting to color the sky woke me up around 5:30am. I took a picture and continued to drowse until 6:15am, when I got up for good. It was a somewhat cold night and early … Continue reading Long Trail, day 7
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 Start: VT 15/Johnson End: Sterling Pond Shelter Mileage: 10.6 on LT Elevation gain/loss: 4393’/1893′ We got up this morning around 6am, after staying up rather too late, but the soft beds gave us deep, restorative sleep. At 6:30am, we were packed up and downstairs, ready for our hearty breakfast. We had … Continue reading Long Trail, day 5
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Start: Corliss Camp End: VT 15/Johnson/ Nye’s Green Valley Farm BnB Mileage: 11.8 on LT (+0.5 around town) Elevation gain/loss: 2671’/3924′ So the heavens opened yet again last night, pouring buckets of rain until around 6:45am when it finally tapered off. While it wasn’t actively raining during our hike, everything (especially … Continue reading Long Trail, day 4
Sunday, August 26, 2018 Start: Jay Camp End: Tiltson Camp Mileage: 11.7 on LT (+0.2 from shelter) Elevation gain/loss: 4,193’/3,878′ After a nice evening with food and nice chats, we had a middling night sleep. Towanda has a cold so she didn’t sleep well, and there was a mouse burrowing around at night, which was … Continue reading Long Trail, day 2
Saturday, August 25, 2018 Start: Journey’s End Camp End: Jay’s Camp Mileage: 11.8 LT, 2.0 RT bushwhack to Big Jay (+0.2 to shelter) Elevation gain/loss: ~4,916’/~4,000′, including bushwhack Towanda (AT NOBO ’15) and I started out from Journey’s End Camp around 7am. We traveled up the side trail to the Canadian border, took pictures, and … Continue reading Long Trail, day 1
Sunday, August 12, 2018 Miles: 11.77 Elevation: 3691′ gain MapMyRun track It stormed overnight, dropping a lot of rain. After getting up around 6:15am and packing up all of my gear including my wet tent, I headed out towards the York Pond East trailhead around 7am. I arrived at the trailhead around 8:30am, and there … Continue reading New England Hundred Highest: North Weeks & South Weeks
Saturday, August 11, 2018 Miles: 18.95 Elevation: 4935′ gain MapMyRun track; Vose Spur GaiaGPS track I headed out by 6:15am to drive the 1.5 hours to the Nancy Pond Trailhead. I parked my car and then started walking the ~1.5 miles to Sawyer River Rd. I managed to catch a hitch after maybe 10 minutes, … Continue reading New England Hundred Highest: Vose Spur & Mt. Nancy
Friday, August 10, 2018 Miles: 3.0 Elevation: 1215′ gain GaiaGPS track After setting up my Google Maps with the desired location, and downloading the map for spotty coverage, I drove out towards Elephant Mountain Rd. I passed by Andover, which brought back memories of my AT hike through in August 2015. Eventually, I passed by … Continue reading New England Hundred Highest: Elephant Mountain
Thursday, July 26, 2018 Start: Refuge La Flágère End: Les Houches, Gite Michel Fagot Mileage: 10.7 Elevation: 4294′ gain, 7086′ descent Stage: 11 After a tasty dinner chatting with two Americans and then watching the sunset light descend Mont Blanc (along with a few dozen photographers with high-powered cameras), we headed to bed around 10pm. … Continue reading Day 11: Tour du Mont Blanc
