DavidNH
06-10-2013, 08:45
This is a heads up for nobos who will be hiking through Vermont Any time starting now and for the next month plus.. man have you got some kind a mud to tramp through!
Southern Vermont is muddy even in the best of times (they don't call it Vermud for nothin'!). But this year.. there's been a lot of rain.. more rain coming this week. OK I haven't been to Vermont yet this year but I live just an hour to the east.. two hours east of the Long Trail.
Perhaps in coming weeks the weather pattern will change and things will dry up but no sign of that yet.
I'd be interested to hear from any one who has hiked in Vermont (especially south of route 4 and south of route 11) so far this year. How bad was the mud? I have to imagine that bug season there also is still in full swing.
DavidNH.
Reminder for hikers.. when you hit a muddle puddle.. you should walk through it not around it. Otherwise the mud puddle just gets larger for the next hikers. I know.. easy for me to say sitting at home nice and dry.
Southern Vermont is muddy even in the best of times (they don't call it Vermud for nothin'!). But this year.. there's been a lot of rain.. more rain coming this week. OK I haven't been to Vermont yet this year but I live just an hour to the east.. two hours east of the Long Trail.
Perhaps in coming weeks the weather pattern will change and things will dry up but no sign of that yet.
I'd be interested to hear from any one who has hiked in Vermont (especially south of route 4 and south of route 11) so far this year. How bad was the mud? I have to imagine that bug season there also is still in full swing.
DavidNH.
Reminder for hikers.. when you hit a muddle puddle.. you should walk through it not around it. Otherwise the mud puddle just gets larger for the next hikers. I know.. easy for me to say sitting at home nice and dry.