Got to meet Slo-Go'in when he stayed with us Saturday. He's got lots of hiking experience...and hiking stories !!!
Got to meet Slo-Go'in when he stayed with us Saturday. He's got lots of hiking experience...and hiking stories !!!
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Green Mountain House Hostel
Manchester Center, VT
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Thanks for your feedback, 10-K. Sounds like you had a great day on Mansfield. I hope to do it soon and would love to get the kind of views you got. Have gotten them on Greylock, Monadnock, Moosilauke and Stratton, the family namesake, with shorter views, still very nice, from atop Lafayette and Washington. Loved Stratton the first time I did it, when it was at the threshold of my capabilities two years ago. Honestly, found it a bit boring and wished I was in the Whites instead when I did it this past May, though I did like the Pond, which was the northern extent of the loop hike I did. Did you meet Jean or Hugh, the couple who serve as GMC caretakers at Stratton's summit? Very nice people.
I fancy I might like Camel's Hump even more than Mansfield - will have to do them both and see. Maybe both in one weekend before too long. Want to get to Killington, too.
I've only passed through Manchester but intend to experience it more fully before too long. Nice place - Equinox and Dorset are on my list, too, nice, steep climbs with great views. Speaking of town stops, did you go into Waterbury? I would want to go the Ben and Jerry's world HQs there while the heavy calorie burn of hiking "necessitated" a pint or two of their ice cream.
The more miles, the merrier!
NH4K: 21/48; N.E.4K: 25/67; NEHH: 28/100; Northeast 4K: 27/115; AT: 124/2191
Adding my congrats for your completion of one of my favorite trails - my first backpacking trip was 35 years ago on the AT/LT in Vermont.
Heading back for a 5 day section hike in early October before the ALDHA Gathering. Looking at Rt. 73 to Camels Hump.
where's the best place in Waitsfield to shower & maybe stay overnite? any recommended places to chow down?
Hydeaway Inn had a fire and closed for a while.
Check out the Tevere Hostel in Warren about five miles away. $30/night. It was an easy hitch for me both ways from Waitsfield.where's the best place in Waitsfield to shower & maybe stay overnite?
I stayed at weathertight. Great breakfast choices.
http://www.weathertopmountaininn.com/
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LT e2e getting closer
travel date Tues 9/4
start date Wed 9/5
hmmmm..... will have to find a sports bar on Sunday 9/9 for NFL opening day games
I was there in 3-3.5 tho I did follow an AT nobo so it was 6mi first afternoon... 21mi, 19.5mi, 10mi to manch center... then nice 3mi up to Bromley summit hut for the night
you mileage may vary
nice report thanks 10-K
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when i did williamstown to manchester i was there in 2 short days and 2 full days. started about say noon on a thursday and finished around noon on sunday. could have been earlier too if i saw the point in trying to finish first thing sunday morning. 3 long days doesnt seem entirely unreasonable
It's 60ish miles of easy trail....
It's not that easy if your just starting out. This section of trail is still pretty bumpy with some significant (and seemingly endless) climbs. It took me 3 1/2 days to finish from Manchester, but it would have taken me twice as long to go the other way if I was just starting out. The Long Trail has "NO MERCY" no matter what section you hike. As soon as you start to think "this isn't bad" and are moving right along, they put some obstical in your way.
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Depends on your experience and fitness level. I had 150mi of trail already under my belt before I hit W-town to start, including doing the Presidential traverse in a day. My experience is in the White Mountains and I didn't find ANY of the uphills to be that hard the entire way NOBO. I'm also a avid cyclist with 2000-2500mi a year for the prior 3 years.
Hitting the trail from a dead stop with no hiking at all... especially this late in the year seems a bit silly. Even a few weekend hikes with a full pack would be beneficial.
you very clearly regularly show that you think any given of section of trail is much harder than most people think it is. at what point do you accept that your experience just isnt quite typical? i did the hike i described starting cold, and if i had any desire to plan getting to the trail differently so as to allow me to start at the crack of dawn on the first day, finishing in 3 days flat would have been easy. is this because i'm a super human awesome hiker? no, people like that do it in 2 (as evidenced by 10-K's experience). anyone who needs 6 days is a slow hiker. nothing wrong with that, but lets not call that average.
However long it takes it's better than being at work.
BTW, I'm not a fast hiker. I start early, don't take more than 2-3 ten minute breaks, 30 minutes or so for lunch, and hike until dark.
People pass me all_the_time - I almost always pass them when they have already stopped for the day and I'm still hiking for a few hours.
I really, really don't like to camp that much or just sit around. For me, hiking means moving.
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well youre certainly faster than me at any rate, i hike all day and could never do 30 two days in a row in southern VT. it doesnt seem like a whole lot of thrus take it that fast (fast as in miles per day) either. i guess maybe it is more of an endurance thing. while i keep going i do drag horribly at different times of the day.
and really, if i can only manage 10 miles a day and do... i dont even know what... the rest of time, i might just rather go to work.