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On Saturday I hiked the Burroughs Loop for the second time. The Burroughs Loop goes over the Burroughs Range in the Catskills and back through the valley to the north of it. The last time I did it I went counter-clockwise from/to the Slide Trailhead. This time I went clockwise from/to...

Last weekend I backpacked in the Whites, mostly with my friend Mike. The cast of hikers for this trip changed several times during the planning, but in the end it was just me for the first day, and me and Mike for the next two. Approaching the days of the hike I was worried about the weather...

Apparently the herd path by North Twin Trail which avoids the first two river crossings is due to become the official trail. See the second paragraph of Steven Smith's latest blog, which says, "In the parking lot I chatted with some Student Conservation Association workers who are developing a...

I finished through hiking the Foothills Trail in the Carolinas a few days ago. My trail journal is here. My pictures are here. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 84/115 (59/67, 23/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 41/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009...

Over the past weekend a bunch of us from the Connecticut Section of the Green Mountain Club rented a house in Hunter in the Catskills. There were eleven of us altogether, including a ten-year old. On Friday several people hiked Burnt Knob. I hadn't arrived yet. On Saturday ten of us hiked...

Having Thanksgiving week off I decided to visit the Catskills before I went off to family celebrations. Looking at the map I realized that over the years I had hiked all but a short (about 3 mile) segment of the Devil's Path, the section between Stony Clove and Plateau summit. So on Tuesday I...

Last weekend I went to Vermont. On Friday and Saturday I did some trailwork on the Long Trail/Appalachian Trail with the Conn. Section of the GMC, based at Story Spring Shelter. On Sunday (16 Oct.) I drove north to hike Killington via Shrewsbury Peak Trail. This was my fourth time on...

Last week my girlfriend Meadowsweet and I went to Mount Desert Island, which is where most of Acadia National Park is. It was her first time there, and my first time in over 40 years. Our time there included two hikes, a short one on Thursday where the two of us circled Jordan Pond, and a...

On Saturday (the 20th) I hiked the third and final section of my Taconic Crest Trail section hike. This time Joe ("Goat"), Barbara ("Nice Lady"), and Diane joined me. We started by climbing up to the ridge on Phelps Trail. This was the hardest part of the day. It's a mile and a half of up...

On Saturday (the 23rd) I continued my section hike of the Taconic Crest Trail. This time only Joe ("Goat") could join me. We went from Madden Road in Hancock to Phelps Trail (which we used as an access trail) in South Williamstown. These are both in Massachusetts, but about half of this...

Five of us from the Conn. Section of the Green Mtn. Club are section hiking the Taconic Crest Trail. The trail follows the crest of the Taconic Mountains in western Mass. and eastern N.Y., clipping the SW corner of Vt. along the way. We did the first, southernmost, section on Saturday. This...

On the last day of 2021 I climbed Camel's Hump from the west, going up Forest City Trail, crossing the peak on the Long Trail, and coming down Burrows Trail. I was on snowshoes the whole time. There was a little sprinkling early on and a little sleet and snow later, but not a lot at either...

My friend Mandy is section hiking the AT, and has all of the northern trail done except a few sections in Maine. The past weekend she picked up one of those sections with some other members of the Connecticut Section of the Green Mountain Club, including me. There were nine of us all together...

Over my years of peakbagging I've scaled the high points of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. A few years ago I realized that I drive right by the trailhead to the Rhode Island high point whenever I go to Cape Cod, so I stopped once and hiked that tenth of a mile...

Laurel is starting to bloom in Northeastern Connecticut. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 76/115 (53/67, 21/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 41/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009; CT NB 2017 "I don't much care where [I get to] --" said Alice, "--...

This past weekend I joined a trail crew on the Long Trail / Appalachian Trail. Before I returned home I hiked a section of the West River Trail and tacked on an ascent of Black Mountain in Dummerston, Vermont. The Connecticut Section of the GMC is responsible for the Long Trail (which is also...

On Wednesday, the 23rd, I hiked the Crockers and Redington from where the AT crosses Rte. 27. It was ten years to the day since the only other time I'd hiked those mountains. That trip was part of a seven day backpack. This trip was a day hike in the middle of a camping vacation. This hike...

A bunch of us from the Connecticut Section of the GMC had been planning to backpack part of the AT in Maine this past weekend, but as the time approached it became clear that Maine would not have reopened enough, so we changed it to backpacking part of the AT in Connecticut. We did the...

Back in December 2015 I tried to climb Madison, which I needed for the Winter NH4K list. I turned around above the treeline but short of the summit that time. Last Friday I tried again and made it this time. I lucked out in planning this; I had picked the date well in advance, and the weather...

Last weekend I joined the Connecticut Section of the GMC for a trail work weekend on the Long Trail / Appalachian Trail based at Story Spring Shelter. The section maintains the trail between Glastenbury Tower and Kelly Stand Road and this trip we were working on the northern half of that. I...