Vermont’s Long Trail

15 Miles (199 Total) Bamforth Ridge Shelter to Puffer Shelter It was an easier day than yesterday but it was still challenging. We walked the remaining 3 miles down to the Camels Hump Trail Head and the start of a road walk along Duxbury road. The large Wanooski river was to our right. It was […]

13 Miles (184 Total) Birch Glen Lodge to Bamforth Ridge Shelter What a day! Mud. Boulders. Ladders. Slick rocks. Ropes. You name it, we did it, or fell trying to. It was a really hard day and took us nearly 11 hours to traverse only 13 miles. We summited three peaks, Burnt Rock, mount Glen

3 Miles (171 Total) Appalachian Gap to Birch Glen Lodge We had a good nights rest in a completely temperature controlled and dry environment. The Inn served us breakfast of French toast and ham, and even allowed us seconds. There was good coffee out too, and the owner, John, gave us a lift after breakfast

10 miles (168 Total) Batelle Shelter to Appalachian Gap It rained 3 inches last night. I wish I was exaggerating. Or at the very least joking. But sadly I am not. The rain pummeled the small shelter all night long, for nearly 12 hours straight. I’ve never witnessed so much heavy rain while hiking before.

14 miles (158 Total) Skylight Lodge to Batelle Shelter I woke up just in time to see a great sunrise over the pond. “Carolyn, there’s a great sunrise outside,” I whispered. “You should get up and see it.” “Erm..I’m going to just sleep.” She said, rolling back over.  I went down by the pond to

16 miles (144 Total) Sunrise Shelter to Skylight Lodge We slept in late (7:30 AM), and were out on the trail late (8:30 AM). After yesterday’s long day we decided we owed it to ourselves to sleep in. Today was challenging. The trail ascended and descended all day. It was a terrible roller coaster of

19 miles (128 Total) Sherburne Pass to Sunrise Shelter We slept okay by Route 4, across the street from the Inn at the Long Trail, despite there being cars going back and forth over the Pass all night. The day was just okay. There were no views, just up and down trail that meandered through

16 miles (109 Total) Clarendon Shelter to Sherburne Pass 43.66306, -72.83233 We started our ascent up Killington as soon as we left the shelter. It wasn’t too bad of a climb and we made the 10 miles up there by 12:30. The day was cool, barely going above 60, and it was nice hiking weather.

15 miles (93 Total) Homer Stone Trail to Clarendon Shelter 43.52387, -72.91228 We woke up early to try and catch the 6:30 bus back to South Wallingford. This turned out to be a mistake because the bus doesn’t run on Sundays, even though the website says so. We just stood there at the bus stop

Zero Day, Yellow Deli Hostel 43.60651, -72.97881 My foot looked a lot better when I woke up. I think it will be fine to hike out on tomorrow. This was a relief. Carolyn was getting nervous that she would have to deal with the black flies all by herself. The day was spent lounging around,