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- Subject: When to do The Long Trail?
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- From: me@stile.stonemarche.org (Mark Eklof)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:29:56 -0500
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- I'm considering through-hiking The Long Trail (in Vermont) this
- "summer", and can take any (up to) four week period of my choice to do
- it. Given that, when would people who know the trail recommend as the
- best time to do it.
-
- The two big unknowns for me are when is water usually most
- scarce (I'll have my filter), and when do the bulk of the AT
- through-hikers generally hit the portion of the trail that co∩ncides.
- I'm not planning on taking a tent, and don't want to have too much
- contention for shelter space (though I will have something I can rig
- in case I have to spend a night or two in the rain. Also, does
- Vermont have a blackfly infestation on roughly the same schedule as
- New Hampshire (which depends on how far north one is)?
-
- Thanks,
- Mark
- --
- Mark D. Eklof
- Co÷s Grange
- Brookline, New Hampshire, USA
-
- me@stile.stonemarche.org
-
- I remember when all this will be again.
-