Bear Hollow Shelter on the Long Trail in Vermont

Bear Hollow Shelter is in Division 10 of the Long Trail in Vermont, 53.6 miles south of the trail's northern terminus at the Vermont/Quebec border.

I remember leaving this shelter early in the morning after an overnight stay and smelling wood smoke, yet there was no one I could find in the immediate area who had a campfire. That's weird, I thought, and pushed on. Later in the day I commented to someone I met that it sure was hazy out. That's not haze in the air, that's smoke from a big forest fire in Quebec, I was told. So that explained my early morning wood smoke odor.

Photo taken 6:04 a.m. Sunday, May 30, 2010.