One of the many amazing aspects of the Long Trail is its shelter and privy system. With over 70 designated overnight sites, you can plan to reach a shelter every night, but sometimes things don’t go according to plan; you may have pushed yourself too far and are not able to make it to the […]
Climate Change: Trail Management Strategies
This article previously appeared in the Spring 2019 Long Trail News. I don’t know how much Long Trail pioneers thought about climate or bad storms when designing and building the trail. But after more than a century of trail maintenance and management, the Green Mountain Club is definitely concerned about our changing climate and its effects […]
What Does the Volunteer Long Trail Patrol Do?
Hi everybody! This is Ian and Lilly, the Volunteer Long Trail Patrol (VLTP) leaders for summer 2019. This year, with an awesome team of volunteers from all over the country, VLTP put in over 1400 hours of work on the Long Trail/Appalachian Trail in southern Vermont. But those hours beg the question, what on earth […]
Problem Bears? Or Problem People?
Vermont hiking trails have long been perceived as places where you don’t need to worry about bears. People hiked, camped, and cooked and stored food without concern. Times have changed, and with the increase in the black bear population, hiker behavior needs to change too. In recent years we have experienced bear problems at several […]
Trail Runs on the Long Trail
This article was written by Rob Rives, former GMC Education & Volunteer Coordinator. In 1876, Walt Whitman opened his short poem, “The Runner,” with this simple phrase: “On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner….” Obviously, much has changed since 1876. Many millions of “well-train’d runners” have chosen trails and mountains over roads as their […]
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