![]() ![]() The weather was better, and I hoped things might dry out a little. I was a little banged up (knee and shoulder) but overall felt good and my spirit was back. But I kept a good pace just in case we could all meet for a photo. At the pace he was going, I doubted that he’d wait at the halfway point. Nutmeg set out first in the morning since she had a big mileage day planned, and I followed just a few minutes after her. ![]() Unlike the more heavily travelled AT, there usually aren’t markers for a milestone like this on the LT. We agreed that if we were hiking close to each other, we’d try to get a group photo together near the halfway point of 136.5. We decided to go with 273, just to be sure. In the Long Trail Guide, the total length is listed as 272 miles, in the FarOut digital app it’s 270.7, the Long Trail End-to-Ender’s Guide says it’s 272.6, Wikipedia lists 273, and AllTrails says it’s 245.6. We tried to clarify the actual length of the whole trail, knowing that all three of us would hit the LT halfway point tomorrow somewhere before Boyce Shelter. ![]() All of us are going NOBO, headed for Canada. Last night I shared the shelter with Nutmeg and Snickers. Went to bed about 8 but between bugs & porkies we spent a terrible night. The mosquitos and blackflies have practically eaten us alive. We slept in a famer’s hay field all night. We lost the trail here and had to plow through 4 miles of underbrush until we hit Middlebury Gap. Stopped on top and talked with a young fellow taking readings for weather reports. fellows are working on the trail clearing it. I got a ride down to and one back from Forest Dale. We killed a lot of them during the night. Notes from 1937, Long Trail Division VIIīoy are the porkies thick here. This series chronicles a comparison of hiking experiences on the Long Trail from 19. ![]()
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