Month: August 2016

This was a lazy day indeed. It rained most of the day, and it seems like every hiker on the mountain came into town. We saw people we haven’t seen since trail days! As usual we lingered in the hotel …

We had a chilly morning yesterday! We hiked a bit over 5 miles into Manchester Center, VT. We got some Thai Food, hit the grocery store, and stayed at the Green Mountain House Hiker Hostel. We got to use the …

Today we’ve officially hiked 75% of the trail. We continue to creep upward in elevation, the high point of the day at 3900 feet on Stratton Mountain. The summit was tree covered, but there was a fire tower with excellent …

It rained in the night and most of the morning. The trail was muddy yesterday, and the rain only made it moreso. We entered a wilderness area for the first time in hundreds of miles. No roads, no noise from …

This morning we woke up and walked 2.5 miles into Vermont at the southern terminus of the Long Trail. The LT spans Vermont 270+ miles up to the Canadian border, and the AT will follow the LT north about a …

We’ve been running into a lot of Southbounders lately (aka SOBOs), which is pretty neat. Coming from the opposite direction gives them a different perspective-and NOBOs have been kidding around that they give us false information to mess with us. …

Today was a bit similar to yesterday, but with sun. We got up a bit earlier today, enjoyed the view of the pond and hit the trail by 8. Just like yesterday we hiked most of the day-16 miles-toward food. …

It rained hard in the night last night, and we woke up glad to be dry in the shelter. It was cool enough outside for long sleeves during breakfast. The morning was misty, the trail was thick with pine needles, …

How nice it was to be able to dry out our gear while it rained last night. It continued off and this morning but aside from a few sprinkles we didn’t get rained on while hiking. We went 12 miles …

It rained all night last night, and continued into the morning with rain in the forecast until tomorrow. We decided to hike 13 miles into Great Barrington to dry our gear and wash up. In the morning we climbed over …