Trails
Mud Season on the Long Trail
Vermont's Green Mountain Club closes the higher trails each April and May. A volunteer steward walks her assigned section on the day it opens.
Tag
long trail
Skills
Packing a 30L for Shoulder-Season Backpacking
For three nights on the Long Trail in early May, Margaret Holcomb carried thirteen pounds in a thirty-litre pack and slept warm every night. The list is shorter than most.
Field Notes
Spring on the Long Trail, Day by Day
Eleven days northbound on Vermont's spine in the second week of May, with mud to the knee and the first wood thrush of the season.