Posts tagged 'long-trail'

• Long Trail Day 6 - Roundtop to VT 15 - August 11, 2017

  Our last day on the Long Trail was a short one, just 3.5 miles from the Roundtop shelter to the big road crossing at VT 15. The weather started off nice but turned into rain on drive. The hiking was easy today and we had plenty of time for checking things out on the way home.

• Long Trail Day 5 - Corliss Camp to Roundtop - August 10, 2017

  Our fifth day on the trail was probably my favorite one. We had nice weather, great footing, and some good views. The hiking was easy and even the couple climbs went by without any real difficulty. Plus, we got into the shelter early so we had lots of time to sit around and relax.

• Long Trail Day 4 - VT 118 to Corliss Camp - August 9, 2017

  The fourth day involved a very late start after a fun night in town, some very long climbs, missed radio activations, and generally very easy trail conditions.

• Long Trail Day 3 - Hazen's Notch to VT 118 - August 8, 2017

  The third day of our Long Trail backpacking trip marked the halfway point. Sarah picked us up at the end of the day for resupply and spending the night in Stowe. We were originally supposed to have spent four days out before the resupply but it rained so much on Saturday we didn’t even hike. This ended up being the toughest day of the hike.

• Long Trail Day 2 - Laura Woodward to Hazen's Notch - August 7, 2017

  On the second day of our Long Trail backpack, we hiked from the Laura Woodward shelter to the Hazen’s Notch shelter. We hiked over Jay Peak which was the tallest summit of our trip and one of the highlights. I had another busted SOTA activation. It was a pretty busy day.

• Long Trail Day 1 - Canada to Laura Woodward - August 6, 2017

  It’s been about a month since I got back from the Long Trail and I haven’t made any updates since then. It was more or less a success. We didn’t cover as much as I wanted, but we had to skip a day at the beginning and several at the end due to weather. Over the next several days I’m going to make posts about each day spent on the trail. Reading about hiking is kind of boring so I’m going to keep them brief and include lots of pictures. At the end I will do a quick recap of what worked and what didn’t.

• Long Trail Gear - August 1, 2017

  I’m now just a few days away from my Long Trail trip. I’ve finally gotten all my gear together so this seems like a good time to do a quick post showing what I’m taking. I spent the past several years refining my backpacking gear. This year I also spent quite a bit of time figuring out what to replace and what to just not carry to lighten the pack weight. Currently without food and water (but with radio), I am looking at just under 18 pounds. I was hoping to be lighter, but it always tends to get heavy at the last minute.

• Long Trail Food - July 13, 2017

  It’s under a month to go before my big hike, so I thought I should talk about my food choices a bit. I’m planning on hiking for nine days with a resupply on day four. On past trips I have used a lot of dehydrated food, but this time I am planning on going stoveless and only using cold water to rehydrate things.

• Long Trail SOTA - June 26, 2017

  Part of the purpose of my Long Trail backpacking trip this year is to use my radio on a lot of summits. It’s partially a regular backpacking trip and partially a SOTA expedition. If you’re not interested in amateur radio from mountains, this is probably going to be a pretty boring post. You might want to move on.

• Backpacking the Long Trail - June 22, 2017

  Starting on August 5, I am planning on spending nine days hiking the northernmost portion of the Long Trail. I will be starting on Saturday at the Canadian border and hiking as far south as I can by the following Sunday. My goal is the summit of Mount Ellen (which I have hiked to from the south before), with a backup of Appalachian Gap if I can’t make it all the way.