This article was written by Neil van Dyke and previously appeared in the Winter 2020 Long Trail News under the headline “Winter Hiking Safety.” There are few times more beautiful for hiking than a crisp, clear Green Mountain winter day. The deep blue of the sky is experienced at no other time of year, and […]
Rock Hopper on the Long Trail: 273 miles and 101 Stories to Canada
This article was written by Tom Kidder and previously appeared in the Spring 2020 Long Trail News. In 2016 my grandson Cyrus and I started section hiking the Long Trail. He was six. Reaching Canada in July, 2019, was the end of an epic journey that both of us will treasure for the rest of […]
There Are No Wrong Turns: A Long Trail Hike
This article was written by Madie Wittmann, a 2020 Long Trail End-To-Ender. All photos courtesy of Madie. We started as a group of three: one of my best friends from high school (Lotte), my boyfriend (Max), and I. Lotte and I are both from New Jersey and Max is from Brooklyn. We were all unemployed […]
Hiking – a Different Perspective on a Pandemic
This article was written by Jeanette Damato, who we connected to after her family’s hike up Camel’s Hump and through our #HikeVT promotion. My husband and I did not grow up hiking and we didn’t actually get too involved until moving to Vermont in 2000. We fell in love with the mountains and although did […]
The Road Partly Taken: On and Off the Long Trail with Robert Frost
This article was written by Vic Henningsen and previously appeared in the Summer 2020 Long Trail News. Historian Vic Henningsen was a caretaker and ranger-naturalist on Mount Mansfield in the 1970s. He thanks Larry Van Meter and Peter A. Gilbert for their help with this article. It’s not clear who first hiked the whole Long […]
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