Year: 2023

• AT 123: Halfway Up Mount Greylock

  

  Turmeric’s foot did feel good in the morning, so we headed out on trail again. Packed our stuff and left the Zero Day Hostel with Buckeye. Slackpacked the first eight miles into Cheshire, got rained on briefly, then Buckeye met us there. Pokey was there as well and got us sandwiches, fruit juice and Gatorade.…

• AT 122: Zero At The Zero Day Hostel

  

  The doc told Turmeric to take it easy, so we decided to do a zero day. The hostel is quite awesome, the company was so as well. Colossus and Rabbit zeroed as well. In the evening Buckeye turned up as well, and later Maggs and Foxtrot got shuttled in. Maggs and Buckeye started a fire…

• AT 121: Urgent Care

  

  Decided to go check out Turmeric’s foot today. Shuttled into town with the hostel, got breakfast, picked up Turmeric’s resupply boxes and both our sleeping bags from the post office. Buckeye drove us from there to the next in-network Urgent Care, which was a forty minute drive. Turned out better than expected; the doc told…

• AT 120: To Dalton

  

  Got up early, watched the sunrise over the lake, then got served pancakes and coffee by Vlobster. Got out at eightish, said goodbye to Buckeye, and went on our way. Long day into Dalton, and with rain threatening, we didn’t do many breaks but hiked on and on. Little bit of mud, a lot of…

• AT 119: Upper Goose Pond

  

  As the shelter has been really crowded this night, and just about everyone wanting to go to Goose Pond today, we wanted to get there early to get a bunk bed there. After leaving the South Mt. Wilcox Shelters really early, we were ahead of most of the people there. Leapfrogged PBJ and Chumbawamba all…