Too much going on

There's too much going on to put up a decent posting. Suffice to say that I am back from three days and two nights on the Long Trail, escaping all the work that is here. We have now walked 65 miles of the LT, about 22% of it.


A photo to whet your appetite: Chittenden Reservoir from up on high as we saw it through the trees on the Long Trail. It's a great place to canoe.


This is the Rolston Rest shelter, 5 miles from Route 4, northbound, built in 2004 to replace an older one. It's a nice post-and-beam but even with it being the LT, people have written all over it and carved in their initials. Cheez.


Bed time in the shelter (at 8.30 PM) — I am reading the log book that had gotten chewed somewhere along the line by porcupines. The mice in the shelter were audacious, too. We had the whole place to ourselves whereas a few nights prior there were 10 people there.


Don't ask why there is a chewed-on moose antler at the Bloodroot Gap sign but there is. It gives you something to write home about.

After this marker, the LT levels out and is easy to walk on all the way to Brandon Gap where, once you've crossed the road, it goes back up again... but that's for another hike.

Next posting will be on Thursday.