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Skylight Pond Photo Journal

For this year's Mountain Leader Course trainings, I again returned to Skylight Pond trail with the 2023 group. To get a better hold on...

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Round Top Shelter: Part Two

Many months ago, I sat down for a meeting to coordinate the 2023 Mountain Leader Course for the Adventure Sports Center at Saint Mike’s....

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Mt. Pisgah Mini Report | 3/24/23

I have attempted to visit Lake Willoughby on a clear day four times now. The first, in a rain storm, the second a low cloud ceiling, then...

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Mount Mansfield & Rodger's Ledge | Halloweekend 2022!

Despite committing to a series of post-bedtime events on Halloweekend, I had still planned on hiking Saturday and Sunday because I knew...

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The Best Way to do Wilson and Breadloaf | 10/8/22 - 10/9/22

I had committed to leading a handful of Mountain Leader Course trips for my college this fall and some of those happened to be...

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Mendon Peak (Bushwhack) | 9/5/22

Rounding the corner on sixty-something of my Hundred Highest, I still wasn’t any less scared of bushwhacks than I was when I decided to...

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Sterling Pond & Spruce Peak | 9/3/22

Today was a rare hike. Not because of the terrain or the company, but because I walked more miles last night when I went out with...

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Mount Abraham | 5/10/22

In a strong effort to procrastinate studying for finals, I decided it would be a great idea to do a 4K during finals week the day before...

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Round Top Shelter via the Long Trail

With the end of my first year of college approaching far more rapidly than I would like, I had been sure to make note of bucket list...

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