I came across this note last week when I was hiking south past Rainbow Lake on the Maine Appalachian Trail. It reads: HELP, Aug 7 11AM, All Hikers, Towards the lake, I found a root fire. I’ve spent the past 2.5 hours …
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Hiking in Hurricanes
I backpacked the northermost section of Vermont’s Long Trail during Hurricane Ike in 2008. I didn’t realize that I was hiking through a hurricane at the time, even with the heavy rainfall and wind, since that kind of weather is the norm …
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In August 2009, I set out to hike the 100 mile wilderness in Maine. This is the last big section that AT thru-hikers have to hike before they arrive at Baxter State Park, home of Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the …
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I didn’t intend to climb to the summit of Mt Katadhin this week, it just sort of happened. But that’s ok, I needed to hike to the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail eventually and things just worked out. Hike: Mount Katahdin …
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