Guyot shelter to Lincoln Woods parking area = 11 miles
We approached the car at the Lincoln Woods parking area just as a strong wind dumped real rain on us. Out came our umbrellas and 5 minutes later, we were sitting in the car, dry, sore, and spent.
We did 11 miles today.
We had left the [...]
Start at Thirteen Falls tent site, end at Guyot tent site = 7 miles
It rained during the night, and Marcia’s things got a bit wet from my lack of care in lowering the side walls of the Double Rainbow. I never woke up. Most of my gear was still dry except for [...]
Mileage = 9.9
The book is wrong again. It describes this loop as “Difficult”, but Roy and I feel it should be up, or maybe downgraded to “Strenuous”. It all had to do with going up on the Flume Slide Trail. What a killer!
We knew it was going to be an interesting day when we [...]
( trip taken June 18, 2008 )
Today marks an official revisit of a classic White Mountains ( NH) backpacking loop hike. The first time Marcia ( Auntie Mame) and I ( Uncle Tom) did this loop we were still young people, braving the woods as a couple for our first time, way back [...]
12 miles
We squeezed out our last day on the GLT by mid afternoon, and reached our vehicle just as the predicted rain started to fall. Truly, our trip was blessed by the best two day window of weather out of of the surrounding 10 day stretch.
I awoke before [...]
Day 2, 14 miles
Day 2 on the Grafton Loop Trail (GLT) found the Maine Train greeting the day off The G Loop.
We rousted ourselves in the cool morning temps a mere stone’s throw from Spec Pond, lying at an elevation of 3,500 feet and said to be the highest pond in Maine, bordered [...]
May 19, 2007 distance traveled 16 miles
Day 2 found the floating family up and at ‘em. No rain now . Warmer. But what a storm we experienced in our tents! One of those thunderclap lightning strikes hit right near here, at about 2:30 AM . Hugely loud, heart pounding close, and thankfully the the storm [...]
6.5 miles , campsite site at 4,000 feet near spring.
( hiking on 5/18 )
Walking the AT in Virginia with a full backpack after moving through here one year ago is quite a beautiful experience. I am walking here for about a 24 hour period over three days ( one whole day, two half days). [...]
Great day of riding 320 miles ( motorcycle) into the great White Mountains of New Hampshire. I left the house at 9:30 AM and figured I had to put down 150 miles if I were to make lunch with my infamous Appalachian Trail friend, and increasingly famous Vermont trail angel, Bad Influence. I didn’t [...]
are BAACK! Big time.
I was recently out in the woods with one of the infamous biking Bubbas, Craig, this week and part of me now looks like a human pincushion.
We actually headed for higher ground, choosing a ride up the trails to the top of Mount Pleasant. Record rains from a week ago [...]
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