The sun came out on Sunday. I did another unremarkable stretch of trail in the morning and headed for home. On my way home I stopped off at the new trail that cuts over to the Lamouille river suspension bridge. This is a new bridge that the Green Mountain Club put in last fall. It cuts out a 5 mile road walk which was the old route to get hikers across the river prior to the bridge construction. The bridge cost them $100,000 (with lots of donations and volunteer labour to install) so that was a big purchase for the club. I couldn't get a good picture of the bridge (you'll have to go visit it yourself) but the new trail cuts across this field and into a nice wooded glen before coming out on the river bank. It makes for a much nicer trail rather then following the road to the highway overpass the old route took. Money well spent.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
trail sign
One of the highlights of Saturdays hike was this trail sign. It's painted on a wheel? pump? rusted piece of metal from a ... vehicle? Who knows. It's a relatively famous "sign" in terms of trail lore. Lots of trail journals have pictures of it... I didn't want to break with tradition so I took a picture.... but I don't know what it was. This typified the types of trails I was on. Not anything really exciting to see.
murky
My first significant trip back to the Long trail was this past weekend. I had 18miles of trail left to go and I managed to get 14.5 of them cleaned up. This doesn't sound like a lot but the trails were mostly out and back so I actually did 29 miles of hiking "on trail". Add a few more miles of access trails to get to the Long trail itself and it was a good early season of hiking.
The trails I have to hike are wholey unremarkable sections and I would only hike these sections so I can say I've hiked the whole thing. Saturday was damp, drizzly and humid as seen in this photo. An added bonus was lots of bugs :( Couple this with no real views or points of interest and it made for a long trudge in the woods. That said I met a bunch of AT hikers heading north. They were perhaps section hikers as the "thrus" are probably still a ways to the south yet. Still I had some interesting albiet brief chats with them.
The trails I have to hike are wholey unremarkable sections and I would only hike these sections so I can say I've hiked the whole thing. Saturday was damp, drizzly and humid as seen in this photo. An added bonus was lots of bugs :( Couple this with no real views or points of interest and it made for a long trudge in the woods. That said I met a bunch of AT hikers heading north. They were perhaps section hikers as the "thrus" are probably still a ways to the south yet. Still I had some interesting albiet brief chats with them.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Pilon gate climb
Haven't made a post in a while. I don't seem to carry my camera with me when I ride so I don't have photos. Today I went for a hike with Mike. We climbed up the escarpment near Luskville on the yellow blaze trails. It was strangely cool today (10C) compared to the 35C humidex days we have been having of late. Still it kept the bugs down to a minimum and made for comfortable climbing. Came across a couple of dead wolves along the trail. I wonder if either of them was the one I saw back in the winter? Perhaps there weren't enough skiers to eat and they starved?
Hopefully I'll make some more posts. Hiking season in Vermont and NY is starting to arrive so I should be out and about with my camera over the next little while.
PS I bought $100 worth of ski wax and a new pair of boards.... ski season can't be too far off.
Hopefully I'll make some more posts. Hiking season in Vermont and NY is starting to arrive so I should be out and about with my camera over the next little while.
PS I bought $100 worth of ski wax and a new pair of boards.... ski season can't be too far off.
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