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Hello! I have been putting together the videos I filmed on my thruhike.
Here is the Mahoosuc Notch video!
http://youtu.be/42hQgUy_LfA
Some of you know that I vloged the whole trip and have those videos up my youtube channel as well.
Thank you all! http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10/06/9ceaca690514d753bf082e2ff4c51744.jpg
Lone Wolf
10-06-2015, 15:54
more like slowest mile. not very hard
Tipi Walter
10-06-2015, 15:58
Thanks for the vid but I'm not a fan of high-speed, sped-up-jerky backpacking videos. Is the Notch not impressive enough at regular speed??
more like slowest mile. not very hard
Slow because it's hard.
It gets a bit technical at times. I hiked it SOBO a few weeks ago with Slo. The rocks were still a bit slippery even though it hadn't rained for days. There was one place where I was kinda stumped and needed a hand-up from Slo. I just couldn't get a hand hold or foot hold in order to pull myself up to the next ledge. Maybe just harder for short people. ;)
In any case it took us about two and a half hours to get through it. As I recall it took me about two hours, going the other way, solo, about 17 years ago.
The trail heading south from there wasn't much easier, it took the rest of the day to get to Carlo Col shelter and that's barely six miles.
Thanks for the vid but I'm not a fan of high-speed, sped-up-jerky backpacking videos. Is the Notch not impressive enough at regular speed??
In general, hiking isn't much of a spectator sport.
Lone Wolf
10-06-2015, 16:13
it's .8 of a mile. took you 2 hours? i did it in 40 minutes once
Lone Wolf
10-06-2015, 16:14
In general, hiking isn't much of a spectator sport.
or much of a sport to read about
Thanks for the vid but I'm not a fan of high-speed, sped-up-jerky backpacking videos. Is the Notch not impressive enough at regular speed??
I had about 50 minutes of video and decide that the audience who would watch it for that long was very small. So I mixed it up.
Traveler
10-06-2015, 16:58
it's .8 of a mile. took you 2 hours? i did it in 40 minutes once
I'll wager you can chug a 57 Rothschild in 15 seconds.
Lone Wolf
10-06-2015, 17:28
I'll wager you can chug a 57 Rothschild in 15 seconds.
yeah sure. whatever that is. stay on topic
Traveler
10-07-2015, 09:05
yeah sure. whatever that is. stay on topic
OK, sorry for the oblique reference to the claim.
hikernutcasey
10-07-2015, 10:12
I had about 50 minutes of video and decide that the audience who would watch it for that long was very small. So I mixed it up.I for one thought it was really cool. 50 minutes of unedited video would have been boring but your take with the music choice was great! Tune out the naysayers.
I for one thought it was really cool. Tune out the naysayers.
Haha thank you!
LIhikers
10-09-2015, 00:19
My wife and I did the notch this past summer.
You might not believe this but it took us the better part of 5 hours.
Of course most of the time was spent trying to get our 90 pound dog, a shepherd, up and over the rocks without hurting her.
She (the dog) was so tired by the end that we finished the day at the camp site at the north end of the notch.
As it turns out, that was a good thing as it rained after we set up camp and didn't have to go up the arm in the pouring rain.
it's .8 of a mile. took you 2 hours? i did it in 40 minutes onceWas that unassisted? What's the current record?
Tennessee Viking
10-09-2015, 10:49
Looks like Big Guy or Large Pack Hell
I have rock scrambled and climbed side hills up waterfalls but nothing that bad.
Lone Wolf
10-09-2015, 12:40
Was that unassisted? What's the current record?
unassisted with a real pack not those weenie day packs y'all carry nowadays
Me and my sons 15 and 12 did the both this summer. The notch was fun, took us about 2 hour. The arm was the killer.
unassisted with a real pack not those weenie day packs y'all carry nowadays
Yeah, back in the day when real men carried cinder blocks in their packs, 'cuz otherwise it was just too damned easy. Kids these days, sheesh!
colorado_rob
10-09-2015, 15:51
Looks like Big Guy or Large Pack Hell
I have rock scrambled and climbed side hills up waterfalls but nothing that bad.As most know, there are three "crawl-under" areas where one has to shed their packs (maybe some could make these with pack-on), but all three also have a nice climb-over route which I used instead. My wife and I climb and canyoneer (very similar moves as the notch) extensively, so I found the notch an absolute blast and took right at 50 leisurely-pace minutes.
One "hazard" of the notch is dropping something down into one of the bottomless cracks! A guy I met right after the notch had dropped a trekking pole down into a crack and couldn't retrieve it. I see in the video the OP pitch his pole forward a couple times! Risky. Two minutes into the notch I stashed my poles in my pack.
The notch was my second favorite mile on the entire AT; the first being the final mile up Katahdin.
The notch was my second favorite mile on the entire AT; the first being the final mile up Katahdin.
The Tablelands? Not really exciting.....
squeezebox
10-09-2015, 19:45
Yeah, back in the day when real men carried cinder blocks in their packs, 'cuz otherwise it was just too damned easy. Kids these days, sheesh!
Real men in the old days??
How do you think all those boulders got there in the 1st place!!!
Weannie cinder block packers.
ALLEGHENY
10-10-2015, 15:33
I did it in a steady rain shower. Met up with two panic stricken women and spent some time helping them through it. I wondered if any more boulders could fall. It was fun.
DawnTreader
10-10-2015, 17:12
My fastest time through the notch is 35 minutes in good weather. It is not the hardest mile, but could be the most fun mile.