Friday, August 12, 2011

Highlights of MA and VT!

Hey guys,

Since I last posted, I've gone from CT into MA and through VT, and now I'm sitting at the Dartmouth Outing Club offices in Hanover, NH! Here are some highlights of the past couple hundred miles:

Celebrating my entrance into CT with a Coke:


Phlegm's last white blaze of 2011, in Great Barrington, MA:


My beard has grown to a formidable length:


BEST blue-blaze EVER - lunch/dinner, plus an awesome ride, plus an awesome trail and shelter partway up Greylock, plus a shelter all to ourselves:


I hiked up Greylock for sunrise on August 5:





Bascom Lodge, on top of Greylock:


A view from the back porch of Bascom Lodge; also the only neighboring peak showing above the clouds that morning:


Entering VT on the Long Trail:


A view down the green tunnel that is the AT in VT:


Early morning on Stratton Mtn, VT:


I stayed at Sutton's Place, a guest house owned by Frank Sutton, in Manchester Center, VT:


Figured I'd take one for my sister at this shop in Manchester Center, VT:


The spaceship-like gondola on Bromley Mtn, VT:


Two really cool bridges over a stream on the Old Job Trail, VT:



The Clarendon Gorge, where I went swimming and finally had dry socks for the first time in DAYS (views from the suspension bridge over the river):



Sun streaming through the clouds and fog on the way up Killington, VT:


Some views from the top of Killington, VT:



The Inn at the Long Trail, at the base of Killington:


I crossed into NH as I walked across the Connecticut River this morning: