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On Saturday (the 20th) I hiked the third and final section of my Taconic Crest Trail section hike. This time Joe ("Goat"), Barbara ("Nice Lady"), and Diane joined me. We started by climbing up to the ridge on Phelps Trail. This was the hardest part of the day. It's a mile and a half of up...

Yeah, that looks like the one I have. I just bought it this year. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 84/115 (59/67, 23/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 41/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009; CT NB 2017 "I don't much care where [I get to] --" said...

On Saturday (the 23rd) I continued my section hike of the Taconic Crest Trail. This time only Joe ("Goat") could join me. We went from Madden Road in Hancock to Phelps Trail (which we used as an access trail) in South Williamstown. These are both in Massachusetts, but about half of this...

There is, or at least was in 2015, a similar sign in the Belknaps.

Five of us from the Conn. Section of the Green Mtn. Club are section hiking the Taconic Crest Trail. The trail follows the crest of the Taconic Mountains in western Mass. and eastern N.Y., clipping the SW corner of Vt. along the way. We did the first, southernmost, section on Saturday. This...

My first day was a half day, and the best way to make that work was to hike south on the AT to Pine Swamp Brook Shelter.

Here's my trip report from 2017: https://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?59158-The-Mohawk-Loop-14-16-Apr-2017 -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 84/115 (59/67, 23/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 41/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009; CT NB 2017...

On the last day of 2021 I climbed Camel's Hump from the west, going up Forest City Trail, crossing the peak on the Long Trail, and coming down Burrows Trail. I was on snowshoes the whole time. There was a little sprinkling early on and a little sleet and snow later, but not a lot at either...

How was the moose scat on Black Angel Trail? I did that trail once in 2009 and it had the highest concentration of moose scat I've ever seen. Not that I saw any moose. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 81/115 (58/67, 21/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35...

My friend Mandy is section hiking the AT, and has all of the northern trail done except a few sections in Maine. The past weekend she picked up one of those sections with some other members of the Connecticut Section of the Green Mountain Club, including me. There were nine of us all together...

The most challenging part of that hike is crossing Rte. 101 at the trailhead. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 76/115 (53/67, 21/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 41/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009; CT NB 2017 "I don't much care where [I get to]...

Last Saturday in Salisbury, Connecticut it was in full bloom down low, but just starting to bloom up on the ridge. By this weekend it'll probably be in full bloom up high. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 76/115 (53/67, 21/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35...

Over my years of peakbagging I've scaled the high points of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. A few years ago I realized that I drive right by the trailhead to the Rhode Island high point whenever I go to Cape Cod, so I stopped once and hiked that tenth of a mile...

Laurel is starting to bloom in Northeastern Connecticut. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 76/115 (53/67, 21/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 41/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009; CT NB 2017 "I don't much care where [I get to] --" said Alice, "--...

This past weekend I joined a trail crew on the Long Trail / Appalachian Trail. Before I returned home I hiked a section of the West River Trail and tacked on an ascent of Black Mountain in Dummerston, Vermont. The Connecticut Section of the GMC is responsible for the Long Trail (which is also...

I was thinking of North Percy. What I'll probably do, though, is reserve a place to stay in the area the nights before and after and decide where to go at the last minute based on weather forcasts. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 76/115 (53/67...

I'm trying to reclimb the NE111 in my 60's, having done them in my 50's, which means I have to average 11.5 per year. Because of the pandemic, however, I only bagged four new ones in 2020. Luckily I had been a little ahead of schedule, so now I'm not too far behind schedule. -- Cumulus...

On Wednesday, the 23rd, I hiked the Crockers and Redington from where the AT crosses Rte. 27. It was ten years to the day since the only other time I'd hiked those mountains. That trip was part of a seven day backpack. This trip was a day hike in the middle of a camping vacation. This hike...

When I hiked through that field right after crossing 341 I was. Just checking myself carefully after that section. -- Cumulus NE111 in my 50s: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2) NE111 in my 60s: 73/115 (50/67, 21/46, 2/2) NEFF: 50/50; Cat35: 39/39; WNH4K: 41/48; NEHH 89/100 LT NB 2009; CT NB 2017...

A bunch of us from the Connecticut Section of the GMC had been planning to backpack part of the AT in Maine this past weekend, but as the time approached it became clear that Maine would not have reopened enough, so we changed it to backpacking part of the AT in Connecticut. We did the...