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Long Trail trip October 2005!

Day Date Starting Location Destination Miles Total Miles Notes
0 27 Sep Parma, Ohio overnight bus to MA 0 0 okay 16 hrs on the bus but at least I can sleep
1 28 Sep Balckington, MA. AT trailhead South Warner Shelter 6.8 6.8 On the trail again
2 29 Sep Seth Warner Shelter Melville Nauheim Shelter 13.2 20
3 30 Sep Melville Narheim Caughnawaga 12.8 32.8
4 01 Oct Caughnawaga grassy spot north of Lye Brook Wilderness 20 52.8 Backtracking and spiderwebs.
5 02 Oct Grassy Spot Manchester Center 6.4 59.2 It's time for a Long Trail Ale
6 03 Oct Manchester Center Griffith Lake 10.3 69.5 Listening to nature at the end of the day
7 04 Oct Griffith Lake Minerva Hinchey Shelter 18.8 88.3
8 05 Oct Minerva Hinchey Shelter Cooper Lodge 13.8 102.1 Claredon Gorge
9 06 Oct Cooper Inn at Long Trail 7.5 109.6 Waiting for Karen
10 07 Oct Inn at Long Trail David Logan Shelter 13.7+ 122.7 A very long 7.9 miles
11 08 Oct David Logan Shelter Sucker Brook Park 12.9 135.6 Bag hands and frozen Snickers
12 09 Oct Sucker Brook Skyline Lodge 9.8 145
13 10 Oct Skyline Lodge Cooley Glen Shelter 7.6 152.6 Gray and wet
14 11 Oct Cooley Glen Sugarbush Warming Hut 9.4 162 Where's the sun?
15 12 Oct Warming Hut Appalachian Gap 6.9 168.9 Cold, but finally some views
16 13 Oct Appalachian Gap Montclair Glen Lodge 10.6 179.5 Climb up Burnt Rock Mountain.
17 14 Oct Montclair Glen Lodge Mama Bowers 8.1 187.6 Karen's last day
18 15 Oct Mama Bowers Stowe Sun & Ski Inn & Suites 0 187.6 Zero Day!
19 Oct 16 Stowe Stowe 0 187.6 Zero day redux.
20 Oct 17 Stowe Puffer Shelter 15.3 202.9 All by myself.
21 Oct 18 Puffer Butler Lodge 7.0 209.9 A really nice lodge
22 Oct 19 Butler Lodge Taft Lodge 3.5 213.4 A cloud-free climb and summit!
23 Oct 20 Taft Lodge Bear Hollow Shelter 12.6 226 Smugglers Notch, Madonna Peak, and Whiteface
24 Oct 21 Bear Hollow Shelter to Vt 15 to Johnson Vt 15 and Johnson 3.6 229.6 Awesome View Hiker's Hostel
25 Oct 22 Vt 15 Corliss Camp 11.3 240.9 Message from Toad
26 Oct 23 Corliss Camp Spruce Ledge 6.7 247.6 short day that proves to be my undoing
27 Oct 24 Spruce Ledge Hazen Notch Camp 7 262.3 hmmm, this snow could be real trouble
28 Oct 25 Hazen Notch Camp Jay Peak 7.0 269.3 made it to the emergency shelter
29 Oct 26 Jay Peak to ski run to Montgomery .7+ 270+ forced off the trail!
30 Oct 27 Montgomery Montgomery 0 270+ More delicious steak!
31 Oct 28 Montgomery a tree 3.9? 273.9 it is still hard
32 Oct 30 a tree Journeys End to Journeys End Camp II 7 280.9 HARDCORE!
33 Oct 31 Journeys End Camp II Montgomery again 5.4 286.3 Celebration time!


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