LT 2015 Day 7: Birch Glen Camp to App Gap
Today wasn’t really an interesting day with regards to hiking. I got up pretty early with the sun shining and hiked the rest of the path down into App Gap. My original plan had been to get to the Inn…
LT 2015 Day 6: Montclair Glen Lodge to Birch Glen Camp
Continuing my trek at a snail’s pace, I started at a normal hiker time (7:30am) and walked only until the early afternoon before stopping. My knee was still hurting and I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to…
LT 2015 Day 5: Jonesville to Montclair Glen Lodge
New Winooski Bridge Having rejuvenated after a night at the Squires’, I bid farewell to Shea and Four Eyes and head across the new Winooski Bridge that was recently built. The new bridge reroute took me away from my resupply…
LT 2015 Day 4: Taft Lodge to Jonesville
Planned ScheduleMake it to Jonesville before the post office closed, hopefully rally to make it up to Bamforth Ridge shelter for the night. Pictures of sunrise on top of Mansfield “Chin”. Unfortunately it was a pretty cloudy sunrise, but still…
LT 2015 Day 3: Lamieoulle River to Taft Lodge
Planned Schedule:Drop pace back to about 2/3 of what I was planning on doing to get as far as I could comfortably. Giving up on my pace made for a much more pleasant day. I still started at the same…
LT 2015 Day 2: Tillotson Camp to Lamieoulle River
Planned Schedule:5am – Wake up5:30am – Head out6:11am – Sunrise9:30am (8.4[5]) – Spruce Ledge Camp12:30pm (15.2[9]) – Corliss Camp4:30pm (23.3[14.25]) – Roundtop Shelter7:28pm – Sunset8pm (30.3[18.5]) – Stop at Bear Hollow Shelter (sleeps 12)9pm – Sleep I don’t remember much…
LT 2015 Day 1: Journey’s End to Tillotson Camp
Note: This is written as if I wrote it all the day of the hike. It was actually compiled from my memories and notes that I took on my phone as I hiked and written much later. Planned Schedule:5am –…
LT 2015 Day 0: Approach to Journey’s End
Note: This is written as if I wrote it all the day of the hike. It was actually compiled from my memories and notes that I took on my phone as I hiked and written much later. Schedule:8am – 11:30am:…
Review: Mountain House Chili Mac with Beef
Chili Mac with Beef Brand: Mountain House 575 calories / 136g = 4.3 cal/g I enjoyed this with my family while car camping at Baxter State Park. There’s not easy ice availability there so we were on dry food after…
Trip Report: North Brother
There was only one other 4000 footer in Baxter State Park (with prominence) that I hadn’t done so I used my last morning of hiking to knock that off the list. North Brother can be done in a loop with…