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We’ll start with the least important but most unique to the Jane-and-Sally-go-hiking experience: And when you do go, you can see what we packed and consider what you might need for your own trek! I highly recommend checking out some of the AMC huts in New Hampshire.

The result was actually delightful – we loved seeing a new place, we got to finish a full 15 feet of the AT, and we met many people who had really interesting stories from their longer (or in some cases, shorter) hikes there. So instead of hiking up and down the same day, or hiking over and down, or hiking over and over another mountain, we worked with the awesome hut croo to rebook ourselves into Lonesome Lake for night #2, and we trekked down and then up to the Appalachian Trail on a totally different path.

(Our back up plan here was to steal a million more blankets from other bunks because there were only 7 guests and 5 staffers in a cabin that can sleep 48 in the high season!).Īll our gear in the room we delightfully had to ourselves at Greenleaf

When we went to bed that night, it was 38 degrees Fahrenheit inside, and we wore every single layer we had brought with us, plus our requisite 3 wool blankets, plus sleeping bags that the hut staff loaned us, which truly made it possible to rest. People were coming in with a chilly blast and their buffs pulled over their faces to keep save even a fraction of warmth. By the time we sat down for snacks (delicious pumpkin curry soup and apple bread), the summit was obscured in clouds and a snow squall. Before we got to the hut, it was snowing. But we forgot that June isn’t actually summer up there. We had packed well for hiking in the White Mountains in the summer. What actually happened was plan… D? E? Something later than C, because everything conspired against us to change the safe, fun, and comfortable options we could choose between. And our destination was Lafayette via Greenleaf (an Appalachian Mountain Club hut) with the idea that we would hike up, get to the hut early and chill for dinner and sleep there, then go to the summit and back the next day, sleep at the hut again, and head down. Our hike was in the first week of the 2019 season, June 3-5. This year, we wanted to hit yet another new peak, so we headed over to Greenleaf Hut, on Mount Lafayette. It started with Mizpah and Mount Pierce a few years ago (somewhat on a whim), and then continued in earnest last summer with Lakes of the Clouds on our way to the summit of Mount Washington. My mom and I have made this a new annual tradition, to hike a new path and stay in a new hut each summer. When life gives you sunshine… go climb a mountain!

#My 4000 footer map checklist full

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