Category Archives: Section news

This website is a good place to look for recent information such as outings, trip reports and announcements. But the site has a good bit of history in it tool. There are two kinds of searches: Continue reading →

Spring trail work is ‘what we do.’ Work at your own pace with a fun group of volunteers like yourself. Feel great at the end of the day that you have helped to maintain Vermont’s Long Trail!

5/25 Spring Trail Work is Cancelled!
We are basically ahead of schedule and do not need to conduct a trail-work day on 5/25. Join us on the 6/1.

6/1 (Sat) National Trails Day
Work Hike Help clear the Long Trail of fallen branches, rocks, etc. Bring work gloves, lunch, water. Tools provided or bring your own. Meet at UVM visitor’s lot at 8am or Richmond Park & Ride (Exit 11) at 8:30am. Moderate hike, moderate pace, 5-10 miles, 2000’ elevation gain. Pam Gillis, 879-1457 or gillis1986@gmail.com, and John Sharp, 862-3941.

Read about National Trails Day.

Continue reading →

Are you savvy with marketing techniques – placing events in the local papers, getting flyers and posters printed and distributed, writing promotional announcements for the web site and list-serv? We need help coordinating the promotion and publicity of our outings and special events. If you are interested, please contact Ted Albers at 802-557-7009 or ted@ted-albers.net The Committee meets every couple of months to plan activities and eat great cookies Kelley makes. We could always use volunteers to help organize events and help with marketing and publicity, or lead hikes or just come up with fun ideas of stuff to do!

Spring 2013 Ridgelines is available for download. Note that photos accompanying “Scaling Colorado’s 100 Highest Peaks: Rich Larsen” are here. Continue reading →

Click below to link to search the contents of the past ten years of the Burlington Section Ridgelines newsletter. The result(s) will be an entire edition of Ridgelines (in a PDF file). The search term will not be highlighted in the PDF – the word(s) you searched for could be anywhere in the newsletter. To narrow your results, search for more terms, or search for an exact term in quotes. For example, searching for spring trail work returned 31 editions of Ridgelines. Searching for spring trail work 1995 returned four. Searching for “spring trail work” 1995 returned one.
Search Ridgelines here.
What’s the most common term people search for? Their own name! Try it.

See the Ch. 17 Video with Will Wilquist and the Burlington Section!

The Burlington Section of the Green Mountain heard Dr. Allan M. Strong from UVM discuss ‘Birding the Green Mountains: Habitats, Elevational Gradients, and Climate Change.’ Thank you Allan for an excellent presentation on the habitat for birds in the Greens and what it tells us about the changing landscape.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. On a sunny, mild, mid-February day, the earth sealed up in a thick crust of old snow, my husband and I set out for a hike up Camel’s Hump…. Read the full story on Seven Days.

Almost nothing evokes wilderness like the yodeling cry of the Common Loon echoing over still water at the end of the day. The presence of these large black-and-white birds on Vermont’s lakes and ponds is a real success story. Continue reading →

What is Long Trail Bound?
Long Trail Bound is a resource for hands-on activities created by the Green Mountain Club that will teach students of all ages about the mountain environment and prepare them for a hike in Vermont’s Green Mountains. The activities are designed to be used in many different learning settings from the classroom, to the home, to the trail. They are divided into three categories:
Outdoor Skills
Mountain Ecosystems
Fostering Stewardship and Sense of Place
Learn more at Long Trail Bound!

The Green Mountain Club is once again sponsoring a digital photo contest for members and the public. The contest will also provide us with fresh material for use in GMC publications. Read more. The GMC always needs new photos!

The GMC Burlington Section maintains Yahoo Listserv. Subscribe to get occasional announcements (occasional – as in a few every quarter, max!) We will let you know when the Ridge Lines newsletter is posted, or special events are scheduled. But we won’t spam you, and you can remove yourself at any time. Subscribe here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmcburlington/ and click “Join This Group” on the right. Continue reading →

In 2006, GMC’s Board established a certification program for hikers who complete all eighty-four side trails of the Long Trail System (164.2 miles in all). Continue reading →

Want a great place for a winter retreat? Continue reading →

Continue reading →

Summer is hiking time, but summer also brings long, lazy days perfect for sitting outside and reading. Continue reading →

The 2009 GMC Burlington Section Annual Meeting heard about Long-Distance Hiking – The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly. Long distance hiking brings out the best and worst in people, especially when the hike seems to go on forever. We heard some of the best and some of the worst when Chris Hanna and Mary Lou Recor showed their slides and talked about their differences while walking the forever-long Pacific Crest Trail in 2007, 2008. The one thing they agree on was that the scenery is spectacular, even if the participants looked like they needed a make-over. Highlights include desert flora, rattlesnakes, characters met on the trail who were all “a piece of work,” Mount Whitney, Mount Shasta, Crater Lake and the long-sought U.S./Canada border marker. Thanks to Chris & Mary Lou for the great show!

Pacific Crest Trail - it never stops!

Share Your Weather Story with Ridge Lines Readers
Most Vermonters who’ve spent any time outdoors have stories about the weather. Have you hiked in mud to your kneecaps? Put your head down and trudged blindly through gale-force winds? Skidded all over an icy mountain? Share your story by sending it to Maeve Kim: PO Box 1086, Jericho Center 05465 or maevulus@surfglobal.net

A message from Dot Myer:
The Burlington Section has many pictures dating back to the 1930s. These are now being copied to CD’s for better preservation. But more photos are needed. Continue reading →