This post was written by Matt Heller, GMC’s Media Intern. Matt is a senior in the media studies program at St. Michael’s College, minoring in environmental studies. All photos and videos in this post are his. On Monday, October 5th, Green Mountain Club staff members and volunteers spent the day near the summit of Mount […]
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 […]
100 Years of Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
This article was written by John Page and previously appeared in the Summer 2020 Long Trail News. Before 1910 the Summit House hotel at the top of the toll road from Stowe was the center of hiking activity on Mount Mansfield. Guests driven to the hotel spent their days exploring the top of the mountain, […]
Running the Long Trail with Type I Diabetes
This article was written by Brad Johnson and previously appeared in the Spring 2020 Long Trail News. In the summer of 2018, my wife and I began contemplating an intriguing idea. Emily and I had thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in the spring of 2001. Avid trail runners, we wondered whether two 45-year-old amateur athletes could […]
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