Summit of Katahdin – Solo 11 mile hike July 20th 2011
Since the AMC requires a list of the last years worth of hikes when ever I sign up for a hike I decided yesterday to put together a list of what I have done this year. LAME for the most part, not too many impressive hikes by anymeans. But maybe this next year. I think my biggest obstical was the thought of paying $50 plus dollars in gas to drive up for a hike, I think some hikes I was suppose to do I didn’t because of this, hence why I need to move up north, as you can see I am at Wachusett and Monadnock the most only because of proximity.
I want to be able to hike more in 2012, and maybe get more of the 4000er’s complete, why not right…
Winter Hiking Experience:
December 2010, Mt Wachusett Worcester Chapter with Stephanie via West Side to Old Indian
December 2010, Douglas State Forest
January 2011, Mt Cardigan, Worcester Chapter with Paul Glazebrook via “West Ridge” Not sure which trail it was.
January 2011, Tully Lake/Long Pond Trail Worcester AMC and Meetup Hike.
February 2011, Mt Monadnock, Hiking Meetup Group via White Dot/White Cross Trails
February 2011, Mt Wachusett, SOLO West Side to Old Indian
February 2011, Cannon Mt, Hiking Meetup Group
March 2011, Mt Moosilauke, Boston Chapter with Kevin Fredette/Stephen via Glencliff Trail
11/9/11 Advance Winter Hiking Series Class
2011 Hiking Experience:
4/3/11 Mt Monadnock, SOLO via White Cross Trail
4/30/11 Mt Wachusett, SOLO via West Side to Old Indian and down Harrington
5/15/11 Smarts Mountain Loop hike with Boston AMC
5/6/11 Mt Wachusett, SOLO Via West Side to Old Indian and down Harrington
5/15/11 Mt Monadnock, SOLO via Marlborough Trail
5/29/11 Mt Greylock via Cheshire Harbor Trail
6/6/11 Mt Wachusett SOLO, via West Side to Old Indian and down Harrington
6/11/11 Mt Chocorua, w/friends via Piper Trail
6/21/11 Summer Solstice Hike Wachusett, Worcester Chapter AMC
6/25/11 Mt Osceola with Meetup Group
7/9/11 Mt Monadnock, SOLO Via Marlborough Trail.
7/20/11 Mt Katahdin, SOLO via Chimney Pond to Saddle Trail, 11 miles 9 ½ hours
9/25/11 Mt Monadnock w/Friends via Marlborough Trail
10/22/11 MidState and Wachusett Hike w/ Meetup Group
11/5/11 Gap Mountain Hike, w/ 4 Seasons Meetup Group
11/11/11 Mt Wachusett SOLO, via West Side to Old Indian
11/19/11 Mt Monadnock Solo, via Marlborough Trail
11/20/11 Mt Tom – Holyoke Ma w/Friends
11/26/11 Mt Watatic w/friends via Wapack Trail
12/10/11 Mt Cabot Worcester Chapter w/ Neil Schutzman York Pond to Bunnell to Mt Cabot Trails. 4.9 miles/ 9.8 miles RT. Snow covered and mud.
2012 Hikes
January 15th 2012 Mt Crawford w/ Boston Chapter /Kevin Fredette
January 7th Blue Hills, Skyline Trail
January 16th Wachusett Mountain West Side to Old Indian and down Harrington Solo
February 3rd Wachusett Mountain Solo
February 7th Wachusett Mountain Solo
February 11th Wachusett Mountain Solo
February 22nd Cascade Trails in Worcester
March 10th 2012 Wachusett Res. Trails with Matt
March 8th 2012 Wachusett Mountain with Matt
March 19th Monadnock with Matt Marlborough Trail, last day of Winter and 75 degrees
April 1st Mount Tom -Massachusetts with Matt 6 miles
April 7th Monadonock Pumpley Trail with Mark and Laura 9 miles
April 16th and 17th Alander Mountain Loop: MA/CT/NY 12.5 miles with Matt
May 4th thru the 6th: West Rim Trail at Tioga State Forest in PA 33.6 miles with Matt
May 20th Wachusett via West Side/Old Indian and down Harrington with Becca
June 3rd Wachusett Via West Side/Old Indian Solo
June 9th 2012 Wachusett via West Side/Old Indian and down Harrington solo
June 11th 2012 Wachusett, West Side/Old Indian 1 hour 13 minutes RT solo..
June 14th 2012 Wachusett, West Side/Old Indian 1 hour 7 minutes RT solo..
June 18th 2012 Wachusett, West Side/Old Indian 1 hour 25 minutes RT solo.. MUDDY
June 20th 2012 Wachusett, West Side/Old Indian 1 hour 5 minutes RT solo..
June 25th 2012 Wachusett, West Side/Old Indian 1 hour 2 minutes RT solo..
June 30th 2012, Monadnock White Cross/White Dot Sunrise Hike with Mike 2 hours and 20 minutes RT, in the dark.
July 7th 2012 Tripyramids with Jim, 11 mile Loop, Up the North Slide, Down the South Slide. 7 hours 1st Hike with Merrell Barefoots on a 4000er.
July 17th 2012 Wachusett West Side Trail to Old Indian in 58 minutes RT
July 21st Mt Flume and Mt Liberty with Jen, 8 hours book time, made a wrong turn so ended up just over 11 miles via Flume Slide, Fraconia Ridge Trail and Liberty Spring Trail
August 18th and 19th Tully Trail Loop, Solo Overnight Backpack. Went Clockwise 12.6 miles to Royalston Falls then back to Tully Lake Rec Area.
August 25th 2012 Bonds and Zealand: Middle, West and Bond day hike
September 3 and 4th: Backpacking trip with Jen and Jason, hit the Willey Range, 22 miles RT with Willey, Field and Tom via Zealand Trail, Ethan Pond Trail, Willey Trail and A-Z Trail.
Ethan Pond Trail, Labor Day Weekend Backpacking Trip, Jen and I
September 15th 2012 Mt Monadnock via Marlborough Trail
September 7th, 13th,17th,20th,25th,27 & October 4th,8th, 11th,15th, 23rd and 24th Wachusett RUN, up West Side Trail to Old Indian and Back, working on speed.
December 11th Pack Monadnock 7 miles RT
January 13th 2013 Wachusett with Joe West Side- Old Indian (SNOW and SLUSH)
January 20th 2013 Swift River Hike with Sunday Hiking Group 6 miles (Snow)
February 3rd Wachusett with Joe West Side to Old Indian 6 miles
Hello,
Just wanted to say that your website was an inspiration for me to solo hike. I live in the White Mountains and have always been a runner. I wanted to try something different, so I got into hiking. It was very hard to find someone to hike with me.
So far, my solo hikes have been:
Mount Willard, Mount Kearsarge, Mount Chocorua (Piper Trail,) and my longest solo hike so far has been Red Ridge Trail to the North Moat Mountain summit and back down via Moat Mountain Trail (10.2 miles.)
I will start the 4,000s next year (I live pretty much in the middle of all of them.)
Thank you so much,
Kevin
Thanks..I need to update my hikes, I dropped off and haven’t added new ones.. Over the years I have hiked a lot with AMC and Meetups such as 4-Season Hikers, but a lot of time by myself. Also been able to encorage friends who were not hikers to come with me more often, even got a couple to do some backpacking trips with me. I have been starting to do a lot of trail running on Wachusett as of late, I have a couple back trails that I enjoy a great deal, I am able to mountain goat back down the mountain as I know the lay of the trails well enough to be confident.
I am jealous of those who live in NH, takes me 2-4 hours depending on where I am hiking to get up into the Whites so I either make a backpacking weekend out of it or make sure I hit multiple peaks…
Happy Trails…