Memorial Day Weekend marks the official start of hiking season, though early season conditions and some patches of snow and mud persist. New to hiking in Vermont, or need some inspiration to make it the best summer ever? Get started with this summer in Vermont hiking bucket list. Share what’s on your list in the […]
Press Release: Memorial Day Weekend Kicks Off Vermont’s Hiking Season 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2023 CONTACT: Chloe Miller, Communications Manager [email protected], (802) 241-8324 Memorial Day Weekend Kicks Off Vermont’s Hiking Season Vermont – The Friday of Memorial Day Weekend officially kicks off Vermont’s hiking season, and the Green Mountain Club, which manages and maintains 500 miles of trails in the state, wants to help […]
State Botanist Bob Popp Retires
This article previously appeared in the Spring 2023 Long Trail News, under the headline “State Botanist Bob Popp, Instrumental in Caretaker Education, Retires.” It was written by Hailey Lynch, GMC’s Group Outreach and Field Coordinator through Vermont Housing and Conservation Board AmeriCorps. Generations of Green Mountain Club backcountry caretakers know that spiky Bigelow’s Sedge isn’t […]
From the Field: Bathroom Talk at the Little Rock Pond Composting Privy
On an overcast morning in late March, several members of the Green Mountain Club’s full-time field programs staff took a two mile hike to Little Rock Pond for some post-winter, pre-hiking season “fun”: visiting the shelter site’s composting privy to perform some maintenance before hiking season begins in June. View this post on Instagram […]
Airplane Crashes Along the Long Trail
This article previously appeared in the Spring 2023 Long Trail News, and contains much of the same information from the 2023 Taylor Series presentation titled “Airplane Crashes on the Long Trail in Vermont.” Both the article and presentation are by Brian Lindner. An old Far Side cartoon showed two pilots looking out the windshield as […]
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