Day 14 Long Trail

Skyline Lodge to warming hut above Sugarbush Ski area 17.5 mile

Lee just had the nerve to ask BI and I if we wanted to take a walk with him to see the sunset over to the western side of this mountain. BI replied in uncharacteristic assertion, “No. We’ve been hiking hard all day and I’m done !”

I had BI’s back and agreed with him.

The effort today was redoubled in that we went up and over 12 mountains, including 4,006′ Mt. Abraham. Originally we were set for 14 miles but Lee encouraged us to get up on the sky high ridge past Mt. Abraham where we might be able to find a descent shelter for the night. The ridgerunner on Mt. Abe turned out to be Spit’s brother, and he recognized Lee immediately from his sister’s description and then proceeded to tell us all the places we could camp up here legally. We dialed in the warming hut after another couple miles north on the LT. We even found a spring 0.2 miles up ahead of the structure.

We got in here at 7:30 tonight, and we are all bone weary and quite silent and subdued after the long miles hiked today.

I was going to read the guys Frost’s “The Road Less Traveled” but I’m too tired to read and they are too bushed to listen.