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Green Mountain Club

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.

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My name is mud

by davepidgeon on September 10, 2009

I shake my head in disappointment. AccuWeather says rain for this weekend. Again. Another hiking trip under concrete gray clouds spilling out daylong precipitation like we’re in the tropics. There’s been so many of these rainy trips for adventure seekers in the northeast, I’m starting to think the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Adirondack Mountain Club, [...]

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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 [...]

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