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On Thursday I went out for my first trip on the AT. Due to snow it ended up only being a day trip, but I was still so excited when 40 ft in I came across the first blaze.
It's also sugar season up here in the northeast, and the buckets & vacuum lines are out in force.
Blackbird
04-02-2011, 15:59
Somebody is sugaring in the trail corridor?
Is that allowed?
fond memories of seeing my first white blaze. Awesome!!!
On Thursday I went out for my first trip on the AT. Due to snow it ended up only being a day trip, but I was still so excited when 40 ft in I came across the first blaze.
It's also sugar season up here in the northeast, and the buckets & vacuum lines are out in force.
What part of VT, Amanita? I was on Mt. Tom in Mass today, looking northwesterly toward all the snow sqalls in southern VT which, alas, kept me from seeing many VT peaks. Did see frosty-topped Greylock quite well, though, Monadnock, too. Beautiful day for a hike!
Tenderheart
04-02-2011, 19:18
I remember my first white blaze. I was climbing out of Unicoi Gap in GA toward Rocky Knob Lean-to. This shelter has long been replaced by Blue Mtn. Shelter. I remember the huge chestnut logs were still present on the forest floor, beautifully covered with lichens and moss. Talk about 40 shades of green.
litefoot
What part of VT, Amanita?
NH, actually. Just east of Hanover.
MedicineMan
04-02-2011, 22:41
Can't remember my first, that was 39 years ago. but it was between Iron Mountain Gap and Erwin.
Chubbs4U
04-02-2011, 22:51
Not to invade your post but I also saw my first white blaze this Friday. Congrats and good luck
Not to invade your post but I also saw my first white blaze this Friday. Congrats and good luck
Grats to you too!
DBCFlash
04-03-2011, 09:07
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/%3Ca%20href=http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=45950&c=531%20target=_blank%3Ehttp://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/1/7/3/0/hike_004_thumb.jpg
This was my first.
DBCFlash
04-03-2011, 09:10
http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/1/7/3/0/hike_004_thumb.jpg (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=45950&c=531)
This was my first.
Blissful
04-03-2011, 09:23
My first blaze was down in Shenandoah when I was a young teen. Stayed with me ever since.
Montana Mac
04-03-2011, 09:28
My first white blaze was in Cornwall, CT - now that white balze is gone due to reoute :(
ATsawyer
04-03-2011, 18:34
...was on the section from Shenandoah's Thornton Gap to Mary's Rock in 1998. After I was done blazing my section, the PATC SOT told me that Myron Avery built and maintained that section in his day (only part though, as the original AT became Skyline Drive and the CCC rebuilt most of the trail to Mary's Rock). Anyway, I thought it was cool that I was maintaining piece of AT history and felt connected to its origin (and still do).
NH, actually. Just east of Hanover.
If it was Hanover, NH, you were just west of it. Is there a Hanover Vt?
Welcome to Whiteblaze madness.:)
Kerosene
04-03-2011, 19:38
Somebody is sugaring in the trail corridor?
Is that allowed?I saw quite a few sap lines just south of Norwich, Vermont right next to the Trail in 2000.
If it was Hanover, NH, you were just west of it. Is there a Hanover Vt?
Welcome to Whiteblaze madness.:)
Well, Northeast would be more accurate, but definitely not west. West of Hanover NH is all VT, and I was definitely in NH.
I do wish our predecessors had been a little more creative with names though, because it seems a lot of towns in New England are on a "one in every state" basis.
way to young to remember im told it was on mcfee knob in diapers and first mountain i climbd without bein carried as fullhardts knob when it still followd 652 and up that steep trail in front of the shelter so im told. :) ... now i see them daily its a weird feeling