This article was written by Rob Rives, former GMC education & volunteer coordinator, and previously appeared in the Summer 2019 Long Trail News. Early this year a popular hiking and running footwear manufacturer produced a short video describing the struggles that three of their sponsored athletes have with mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, […]
Can I throw it in the privy?
You’ve heard it’s harmful to litter. But when hiking it’s not clear what the best way to get rid of your trash actually is, especially once outhouses are involved. For example, when you are two miles into a hike, what do you do when you realize you forgot toilet paper, or that you need to […]
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 […]
A New Privy is Built
Many of you are surely wondering “Did I sense a positive shift in groundwater quality and hiker experience late last week?”. You bet you did—David Logan pit privy has been replaced with an accessible moldering privy! Field Assistant Rosalie Sharp has been hard at work putting together plans, ordering materials, and prefabricating the structure at […]
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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