The Green Mountain Club has announced the start of “mud season” and has urged hikers to stay off muddy trails and trails at higher elevations that still have extensive snow or ice cover. In a statement, the club said when hikers tramp on saturated soils, they cause irreversible erosion and damage to the trail and surrounding vegetation. “Every step not taken on a wet...
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For most Vermonters, the Adirondack Mountains represent some of Mother Nature’s sweetest and most impressive eye candy — an omnipresent, majestic vista often enjoyed from a distance. Weybridge neighbors Michele Bayliss and Dean Ouellette can look at the Adirondacks with admiration and at the same time utter the words, “been there, done that.” Bayliss and Ouellette are...
Learn MoreA new trail has been dedicated which members of the local hiking community say will make Pisgah State Park, NH the center of a regional trail network. The Keene Connector of the Wantastiquet-Monadnock Trail was broken in with a through hike of the 10 miles from Pisgah to Keene in late October. Together with the opening of the Wantastiquet-Monadnock Trail from Pisgah Park...
Learn MoreU.S. Forest Service officials in Vermont and New York are urging extra caution for those who may want to venture out in the woods in the days following the storm. The Forest Service says overhead dangers may remain present even after the weather clears, with branches or even whole trees set to fall. Another concern is that streams and rivers may be swollen from the rains...
Learn MoreThe Green Mountain Club, NorthWoods Stewardship Center, and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation were honored this weekend with the “Project of the Year” award for their work on a new trail in the Northeast Kingdom. The “Project of the Year” award for the new Middle Mountain Trail in Avery’s Gore was presented at the Vermont Trails and Greenways...
Learn MoreFor the last year, many organizations have worked diligently to repair the major damage done to the White Mountain National Forest from Tropical Storm Irene. The National Forest Foundation announced that it has adopted the forest as one of its “Treasured Landscapes,” in an effort to bring additional resources to this major recovery effort. In 2009, the National Forest...
Learn MoreStudent crews have been busy repairing hiking trails and building new ones in New England’s mountains. Seventy workers ages 14 to 20 have taken to the trails this summer in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. They’re part of a nonprofit conservation group called the NorthWoods Conservation Corps, which works in partnership with other...
Learn MoreA hiking trail to connect Vermont’s Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail to a 4,600-mile path to North Dakota could be coming to a farm field about midway between Lake Champlain and the spine of the Green Mountains. The North Country Trail National Scenic Trail is being extended from its current eastern endpoint in Crown Point, N.Y. The route it would take through...
Learn MoreFor almost 50 years, naturalists, hikers and government officials have dreamed of blazing a trail that would connect two of the country’s longest hiking routes: the Appalachian Trail, which runs along the East Coast from Georgia to Maine, and the North Country Trail, which stretches from Crown Point, N.Y., to North Dakota. The missing link? A roughly 40-mile stretch of...
Learn MoreThe Green Mountain Club welcomes the end to mud season starting this Memorial Day weekend. As hiking on trails in the Green Mountain National Forest is no longer discouraged, the club looks forward to another great hiking season in Vermont. The 10,000-member founder and maintainer of the Long Trail also knows there is a lot of trail work to do, especially in the wake of...
Learn MoreIn an era where kids spend most of their time in front of a screen, the Long Trail, Appalachian Trail, Kingdom Heritage Land trails, and other Vermont hiking resources can open children’s minds to the natural world outside their doors. The Green Mountain Club not only conducts youth and adult outdoor education workshops, but it is seeking to provide improved resources to...
Learn MoreThe Green Mountain Club today noted the early start to “mud season” and urged hikers to stay off muddy and high-elevation trails unless they still have snow or ice cover. Rain and melting snow at higher elevations cause wet and muddy conditions on many of Vermont’s hiking trails. When hikers tramp on saturated soils, they cause irreversible erosion and damage to the...
Learn MoreWATERBURY (AP) – The last section of the Long Trail damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Irene has reopened. Officials say three miles of the trail in Shrewsbury remained closed for a month while the rest of the Long Trail had reopened weeks earlier. The Green Mountain Club said that it had proposed a detour of the damaged section of the Long Trail and Appalachian...
Learn MoreAVERY’S GORE, Vt. — The Green Mountain Club has broken ground on a major new hiking trail in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The new “Split Rock” trail on Middle Mountain in Avery’s Gore, population zero, is part of the club’s effort to provide greater access to the Kingdom’s beautiful mountains to Vermonters and visitors. The new trail begins off the Gore Trail and...
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I am Jeff Clark, founder of Internet Brothers, producer of this blog, and passionate about hiking. My regular hiking companions have designated me the lead hiker, so I suppose that makes me the slowest Meanderthal. I live in Western NC near the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests are just out my door, so the content will focus on these areas, but let me know what you would like to see on the site. 
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