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, […]
From Porcupines to Pesticides: A GMC Caretaker’s Influence on “Silent Spring”
This article was written by Vic Henningsen and previously appeared in the Spring 2020 Long Trail News. Historian and former VPR commentator Vic Henningsen was a caretaker and ranger-naturalist on Mount Mansfield during the 1970s. There’s an old story about a pair of caretakers at Butler Lodge in the 1930s offering porcupine stew and blueberry […]
Happy 110th Birthday, GMC!
March is the month when we welcome Spring, get ready for the upcoming hiking season, and celebrate the Club’s birthday. Today, March 11, GMC turns 110! And for 103 years of that history, hikers on the Long Trail have been guided by the Long Trail Guidebook. Following the spine of the Green Mountains from Massachusetts […]
A Solo Winter Thru Hike of the Long Trail
This article was written by Keith Kimball. Keith is a passionate backpacker and winter climber. He is a multiple-time Long Trail hiker, completing two back-to-back end-to-ends in 1990, again in 1998, in addition to a fifth hike in winter 1995. He has also completed multiple end-to-end hikes of the Appalachian Trail (five), Pacific Crest Trail […]
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