Trip Reports

Mt Killington is one of Vermont’s 4000-foot peaks. It’s on the Long Trail (LT), where the LT and the Appalachian Trail (AT) coincide before the AT veers east and heads toward New Hampshire. While you can hike Killington as a day hike …

The Belvidere Fire Tower is a distinctive landmark on the northern half of Vermont’s Long Trail, with commanding views of the Green Mountains to the north and south, including Jay Peak and Camels Hump. An inactive asbestos strip mine lies at the …

Mt Hunger is a mountain in Vermont’s Worcester Range just outside of Stowe and within spitting distance of Mt Manfield, the state’s highest peak. Having sampled the Worcester Range with a hike up to a viewpoint called Stowe Pinnacle last winter on …

Your backpacking clothes for an Appalachian Trail don’t have to be overly complicated—in fact, simpler is better because you don’t want to carry anything you won’t use. What you do want is durable clothing, doesn’t chafe or rub you the wrong way, …

Vermont’s Long Trail is the oldest National Scenic Trail in the United States. It runs 272 miles from the Massachusetts-Vermont border north to Vermont’s border with Canada. It’s a great trail to thru-hike or section hike. I finished hiking the Long Trail …

The last time I hiked over Camels Hump Mountain, a 4000-footer in Vermont, was in 2008 when I hiked the Long Trail. Now in 2024, some 16 years later, my goal was to hike all the other trails that go up, down, …

My backpacking trip to Scotland this May did not go as planned. Two days into my hike, I came down with what was probably Norovirus. It kicked my ass, and it took me about a week before I began to feel myself …

I am a Gridiot, the self-deprecating term used in the White Mountains to describe the crazy people who’ve completed the White Mountain 4000-Footer Grid. I’m the 179th person to finish, which is pretty incredible considering the effort involved in completing this peak …

If you camp or backpack in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest, you need to store your food in: a closed motor vehicle (locking is advised) a campsite bear box at a pre-established tent site by hanging your food in a bear …

A one-page listing of weather forecast and trail conditions information for each of the 48 New Hampshire White Mountain 4000 footers. How many of you spend hours each month searching NOAA, NETC, or Mountain Forecast, typing in mountain names into their tiny …

April is the most difficult month to hike the White Mountain 4000 footers and hiking out to The Bonds is one of the most difficult hikes to complete due to the distance and early spring snow conditions. This April has been particularly …

New Hampshire is a great place to hike with thousands of miles of hiking trails and large tracts of wilderness to explore. While a lot of hikers flock to the White Mountain National Forest to climb the 48 four thousand footers and …

April is the hardest month to climb 4000 footers in the White Mountains because winter conditions often prevail past the end of calendar winter. More often than not, there’s at least one major winter storm that hits the region in late March …

One of the great hikes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire is called a Presidential Traverse. It’s so-called because hikers climb all of the mountains in the  Presidential Range of the White Mountains in one continuous hike that’s nearly 23 miles …