If you’ve ever passed by a working trail crew while you were out hiking and wondered what their strange tools were, or heard the sometimes bizarre names of tools and […]
Training for the Trail
This post written by Jordan Rowell, Volunteer Long Trail Patrol Crew Coordinator. Last week, a group of eleven Green Mountain Club field staff entered the forest on the north side of […]
Sounds of Spring: Spring Peepers
This post was written by Mollie Flanigan, GMC’s Land Stewardship Coordinator. One of the things I look forward to and enjoy about spring is the chorus of the spring peepers. […]
2016 Field Season is Over
GMC’s Caretakers and Long Trail Patrol left the woods last month, bringing an end to this year’s successful field season. The Long Trail Patrol and Construction Crew got a lot […]
Notes from End-to-Enders
People who have hiked all 273 miles of the Long Trail, either all at once or over the course of many years, are called End-to-Enders. To date, over 3,100 hikers […]