This article was written by Keith Kimball. Keith is a passionate backpacker and winter climber. He is a multiple-time Long Trail hiker, completing two back-to-back end-to-ends in 1990, again in 1998, in addition to a fifth hike in winter 1995. He has also completed multiple end-to-end hikes of the Appalachian Trail (five), Pacific Crest Trail […]
Vermont’s 110 Peaks Above 3,000′ in Winter: Check!
This article was written by Spencer Crispe. The more society retreats into social media and the digital black hole, the more I feel the need to spend time outdoors. As a ninth-generation Vermonter who has lived my whole life here, I started skiing when I was three. But with the price of lift tickets pushing […]
Explorations North of the Long Trail
Hikers often ask if they can just keep hiking into Canada once they reach Journey’s End on the Long Trail. While a hiking trail does not exist exactly at the point the trail hits the border (nor does a checkpoint to legally cross over), there are trails in that area of Quebec. The below article […]
Search & Rescue on the Long Trail and Appalachian Trail
This article was written by Neil Van Dyke, Search & Rescue Coordinator, Vermont Department of Public Safety, and previously appeared in the Winter 2019 Long Trail News. While tens of thousands of people hike on Green Mountain Club trails every year without incident, occasionally things go wrong. Fortunately, Vermont has a dedicated and well-trained cadre […]
Mountain Names: Remembering their Aboriginal Origins
This article was written by Rich Holschuh and previously appeared in the Fall 2019 Long Trail News. As Europeans settled on the continent and early pioneers explored, they often gave places new names commemorating the Founding Fathers and other important Americans… [Indigenous people] have viewed such commemorative names as inappropriate: humans are too small, too […]
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