What is it like to work on a trail crew? For more than 90 years the Green Mountain Club has hired seasonal crews to live and work on our trails. The Long Trail Patrol, GMC’s professional crew, augments the efforts of the club’s hundreds of volunteers to undo the effects of erosion by water and […]
Giving Back to the Long Trail: 4 Long Trail Day Fundraisers Share Their Story
Whether you’ve hiked one mile or 272 miles of Vermont’s Long Trail, or you prefer its dozens of side trails or the beautiful trails in the Northeast Kingdom, hiking in Vermont means something different and meaningful to all of us. Green Mountain Club is proud to be celebrating Long Trail Day again this summer. This […]
GMC Field Staff: Meet the 2021 Caretakers and Trail Crews!
GMC runs seasonal field staff in two main roles: backcountry caretakers, who steward some of the most popular sites on the Long Trail; and Long Trail Patrol, the trail maintenance crew, which includes a small construction-focused crew. The 2021 field season is a busy one, making up for the reduced crews we ran last year, […]
Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel partners with GMC for video stories and socks
What do the Vermont mountains mean to you? Are they a place for solace, a place to challenge yourself, an outlet from the stress of daily life, a way to spend time with family and friends? Green Mountain Club teamed up with Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel and Mt. Mansfield Media to answer some of these […]
Start Hiking: It’s never too late
This article previously appeared in the Spring 2021 Edition of the Long Trail News. While it’s never too late in life to start hiking, readers are reminded that we are currently observing mud season conditions in Vermont and we urge you to avoid high-elevation trails until later in May. Katie Boyd, 48, is a lifelong Vermonter […]
