Posts tagged as:

Benton MacKaye

The Long Trail turns 100

by Dave Pidgeon on March 11, 2010

The Green Mountain Club and the Long Trail, an iconic American wilderness path, turn 100 years old today.

I’m sitting here a few days from a real fine trip to the Catskills with the Appalachian Mountain Club, which is its own source of excitement. Trip report to follow. I’m also moving with my wife, Alison, to a new house in about a month. We’ve busied ourselves selling old furniture, rooting through storage closets [...]

{ 0 comments }

Expect crowds, mud and history at Stratton

by davepidgeon on August 10, 2009

This was a Tuesday. And already I began to count in my head how many thru-hikers and other backpackers would be spending the night at the Long Trail/Appalachian Trail shelters along Stratton Pond in southern Vermont. The number? No less than two dozen. On a Tuesday night in August. Not Friday or Saturday nights. Middle-of-the-work-week [...]

{ 2 comments }