Toe Cozy
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All this talk about Presi Traversin' made me a little envious. So I went on my own Presidential Traverse. Friday at work I checked the weather for this coming week and saw that Monday and Tues (Summer Solstice-best holiday of the year) were guaranteed (ha!) to be gorgeous. I couldn't bear the thought of spending the longest day of the year indoors with good weather predicted.
So I looked at my schedule for Tuesday and cancelled all my clients and started to plan my Presi Traverse. Over the weekend however, I decided to leave work early on Monday and head to the hills so that I could sleep outside for the first time in too long.(more cancelling of afternoon clients when I got to work on Monday morning was involved). I coerced my husband to meet me at my ending point so I could leave my car and have him drive me to my starting point. I was seizing the day(s) as best I could, responsibility be damned! All my plans came together and this is how my hike went:
Headed up the Emily Proctor Trail at 5:15 p.m. and hiked through lovely forest and between two babbling brooks and got to the shelter at about 7pm. There were two very quiet and amiable Harvard Med Students there already, so I wouldn't be spending my first night alone in the woods. I had been kind of excited to do a solo overnight. Even if you're hiking by yourself it doesn't count as a solo overnight if other people are at the shelter. The bugs were kept away by my handy head net and I wrote in my journal until I couldn't see without my headlamp anymore and that was about 9:20pm.
In the morning I left the shelter by 7:20 and headed out on my Lesser Known Presi Traverse in Vermont's Green Mountains. My route included such celebrated heads of state as: Wilson, Roosevelt, Cleveland and Grant with a finish at Lincoln Gap. It was a delightful 10 mile hike with some decent views here and there and one sighting right on the trail of a bull & cow moose. That was really cool. This section is through the Breadloaf Wilderness and is not heavily travelled. In many places the trail is quite narrow and the plants reach well into your personal space and make for lots of brushes with Nature! (my shins would have been happier with my gaiters on) I saw a dad and two little boys at about 8:00 a.m. and I saw a couple who looked to be in their late 60s during the last mile. I didn't see anyone else all day. I finished at 2:00 p.m. It was a very enjoyable section of the LT and I thought of Seema a lot during the day. It was just before the Emily Proctor Shelter and this section of the trail where I threw in the towel last year. She headed north to Canada and I headed home. It was a bummer. But she was with me in spirit on my hike and will be each time I'm out there ticking off the miles to Canada.
To celebrate my Lesser Known Presi Traverse on a gorgeous Summer Solstice day I stopped at Ben & Jerry's (can't do that in the Whites!) for a scoop of Coffee, Coffee Bzz,bzzbzz and a scoop of coconut, almond, chocolate chunk. (wait, I have to wipe the drool off the keyboard). It was perfect first day of summer and a wonderful Presidential Traverse (vt)
Thank you for reading this silly trip report! Looks like a steamy weekend coming up. Not heading for the hills for this one, I'm heading out in the canoe for some paddlin', swimmin', loafin' and brews!
Everybody! Back to work now!
So I looked at my schedule for Tuesday and cancelled all my clients and started to plan my Presi Traverse. Over the weekend however, I decided to leave work early on Monday and head to the hills so that I could sleep outside for the first time in too long.(more cancelling of afternoon clients when I got to work on Monday morning was involved). I coerced my husband to meet me at my ending point so I could leave my car and have him drive me to my starting point. I was seizing the day(s) as best I could, responsibility be damned! All my plans came together and this is how my hike went:
Headed up the Emily Proctor Trail at 5:15 p.m. and hiked through lovely forest and between two babbling brooks and got to the shelter at about 7pm. There were two very quiet and amiable Harvard Med Students there already, so I wouldn't be spending my first night alone in the woods. I had been kind of excited to do a solo overnight. Even if you're hiking by yourself it doesn't count as a solo overnight if other people are at the shelter. The bugs were kept away by my handy head net and I wrote in my journal until I couldn't see without my headlamp anymore and that was about 9:20pm.
In the morning I left the shelter by 7:20 and headed out on my Lesser Known Presi Traverse in Vermont's Green Mountains. My route included such celebrated heads of state as: Wilson, Roosevelt, Cleveland and Grant with a finish at Lincoln Gap. It was a delightful 10 mile hike with some decent views here and there and one sighting right on the trail of a bull & cow moose. That was really cool. This section is through the Breadloaf Wilderness and is not heavily travelled. In many places the trail is quite narrow and the plants reach well into your personal space and make for lots of brushes with Nature! (my shins would have been happier with my gaiters on) I saw a dad and two little boys at about 8:00 a.m. and I saw a couple who looked to be in their late 60s during the last mile. I didn't see anyone else all day. I finished at 2:00 p.m. It was a very enjoyable section of the LT and I thought of Seema a lot during the day. It was just before the Emily Proctor Shelter and this section of the trail where I threw in the towel last year. She headed north to Canada and I headed home. It was a bummer. But she was with me in spirit on my hike and will be each time I'm out there ticking off the miles to Canada.
To celebrate my Lesser Known Presi Traverse on a gorgeous Summer Solstice day I stopped at Ben & Jerry's (can't do that in the Whites!) for a scoop of Coffee, Coffee Bzz,bzzbzz and a scoop of coconut, almond, chocolate chunk. (wait, I have to wipe the drool off the keyboard). It was perfect first day of summer and a wonderful Presidential Traverse (vt)
Thank you for reading this silly trip report! Looks like a steamy weekend coming up. Not heading for the hills for this one, I'm heading out in the canoe for some paddlin', swimmin', loafin' and brews!
Everybody! Back to work now!
