Brian joined the Green Mountain Club after multiple family hikes on the Long Trail while vacationing most summers in Vermont. After moving to Burlington in 2016, he joined the Burlington Section and jumped right into the annual meeting chair given his past experiences running these type of events for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. Both his sons are Eagle Scouts and enjoy the outdoors thanks, in part, to the great work of the GMC.

While not an end-to-enders, he does enjoy time on the trail. He volunteers at Barnes Camp on the Mountain Road just below Smugglers Notch between the end of mud season and the beginning of stick season each year. He advises the many hikers and tourists that stop by for advice as well as highlights all that the GMC does to maintain the trails they enjoy. He also leads the annual Vermont Lake Monsters GMC night at Centennial field as another opportunity to advertise the work of the GMC.

Keep the Executive Committee running smoothly while training for the President’s role.

Jonathan moved to Vermont with his family in 2011. He soon joined the GMC and began volunteering on the Club’s Budget & Finance Committee. Jonathan’s outdoor adventures took off during college where he learned to backpack in the Olympic Mountains of Washington.

Since then he gained skills with the Pacific Crest Outward Bound School, Colorado Outward Bound School, and N.O.L.S. Jonathan has been able to hike portions of the AT in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine over the years. His longest single adventure has been a Pacific Crest Trail thru hike. Jonathan became more active with the Burlington Section in 2018 and has been serving as Section President since January 2020.

It has been my privilege to hike in many parts of the  world, including Kilimanjaro and the second-largest canyon in the world. When I arrived in Vermont, I thought these were not mountains but hillocks. Since then, I have section-hiked the Long Trail SOBO and NOBO. The longer one stays, the more the Green Mountains enrapture and grow on one. They are special.

Barbee Hauzinger is a photographer who has been living in Burlington, VT for the past 13 years, where she has found solace and adventure in the Green Mountains. She has volunteered time on the VLTP along the southern sections on the Long Trail and completed her section hike of the Long Trail in 2021.

She has a strong passion for LNT policies, wilderness education and conservation, and getting outside for physical and mental health.

Her hopes as the Marketing and Communications chair include exposing the community to the offerings of the section, educating hikers about hiking safety, engaging with peers and younger hikers to encourage them to participate in GMC events and memberships, and to share the beauty and magic of the Green Mountains.

David Hathaway grew up in the Midwest and first came to New England in 1974 to attend Dartmouth College. His first taste of New England hiking came the day after he arrived with a three-day, 52-mile hike on the AT from Hanover, New Hampshire to Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. After two years of grad school in California, David moved to Vermont in 1981 to work for IBM.

He began hiking in earnest in 1990 after moving to Underhill, where he and his wife, Carolyn Greene, still live (a 5-minute drive, or long bushwhack, from Underhill State Park). David joined GMC in 1996 while planning his first Long Trail end-to-end hike, which was intended as a thru hike, but completed in sections between 1996 and 1999. He was recruited to lead Burlington section outings in the early 2000s by then outings chair Rich Larsen, and has led at least one trip every quarter since then, and at least one a month since 2015 when not prevented by recent pandemic restrictions. David did his second Long Trail End-to-End hike in 2010, again planned as a thru hike, but completed in sections between June and December.

Upon retiring from IBM in 2014, David became outings chair and webmaster for the Burlington section. He is also a volunteer trail adopter (of Rock Garden Trail on Mt. Mansfield), a corridor monitor, and enjoys getting out with a chainsaw to help clear blowdowns on the trails. He has taught the GMC map and compass navigation class several times. In 2021 he became chair of the GMC Trail Management Committee and in 2022 joined the GMC board as a general director David is an Adirondack 46er, and has climbed the AMC New England Hundred Highest Peaks and 19 of the Colorado 14ers.

Jordon is from South Hero, Vermont and after graduate school at the University of Michigan and SUNY-ESF returned to live in Burlington in 2021. He is a plant ecologist working for the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and also serves as a volunteer corridor monitor for the GMC. His research seeks to understand how climate change impacts plant communities and forested ecosystems in the mountains of the Northeast. He is also an avid hiker and trail runner, completing the Long Trail in 2016, and spending a considerable amount of time in both the summer and winter seasons in the Adirondacks, Green Mountains, White Mountains, and Western Maine Mountains. Jordon enjoys educating public audiences about the fascinating aspects of our natural ecosystems, and as outings co-chair, hopes to expand opportunities for people to explore the mountains.

Rachel Frascella hails from the swamps of Jersey, recently moving to Vermont in 2024. She joined the Burlington Section in the Fall of 2025. She can be found on trail with her favorite hiking partner, her dog Reed. Rachel has completed the Catskill 35 and Adirondack 46. She’s excited to bring her experience in event management to the Green Mountain community.

Ted Albers moved with his family to Shelburne in 2006 (but relocated in 2025 to Westchester County, NY.) In 2006, within weeks of arriving in Vermont, then section president Phil Hazen convinced Ted to join the Burlington Section. A few weeks later Phil convinced him to take on the publishing duties of the section website along, with various other random chores such as helping to run Taylor Series, lead outings, adopt a shelter, a parcel, etc. Through the process of attrition (ie. Phil’s retirement from the role) Ted eventually became the Burlington Section president for several years. He was also section director. He is now the archivist along with Marguerite Warner. If you have genuine GMC archival materials you think may be appropriate for the club, let Marguerite or Ted know:   ted@ted-albers.net. 

Favorite long trail section? This is like choosing between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones…

Sunrise or sunset hike? sunrise

One piece of gear you love? hydration pack

Go-to trail snack? Owl Energy Bar

Solo or group hike? solo, for meditation purposes only 

Scott was raised in Burlington and first started hiking when he was a Boy Scout. He quickly developed a passion for it and has since completed the Long Trail End to End four times, and Side to Side once. He’s also hiked the John Muir Trail, Appalachian Trail, Northville-Placid Trail, the Northeast 111 (4,000 ft peaks), and the New England Highest 100.

A quote from his 2017 Long Trail thru-hike trip report was captured on the GMC website and sums up his feelings well: “After hiking an estimated 1500+ miles on the Long Trail system and spending many hours helping to maintain it, I feel that the Long Trail is deeply interwoven into my soul. Somehow, I am a part of it and it is a part of me. It is wild and beautiful. I have hiked it with those I love most in life – my Dad, wife, sons, dogs, and many good friends. My experiences on the trail will be treasured memories for the rest of my life. I love the Long Trail dearly and am not ready to be done hiking it yet. Hopefully, there will be many more good memories to come.”

All those great experiences through the years prompted Scott’s interest in helping to maintain the trails and giving something back for other hikers.

Since 2014, he has regularly participated in most of the spring trail clearing hikes for the Burlington section. With the opening of the Winooski River Bridge in 2015, he also became the trail adopter for a section of the relocated Long Trail between the Duck Brook Trail and The VAST 2 crossing near Stimson Mountain.

Scott has served on the Board of Directors of the Dorset Park Skating Association (the group that built and operates South Burlington’s Cairns Arena ice rink) since 1995 and has been a regular Red Cross platelet & plasma donor for the last 40 years.

Other than hiking, his hobbies include playing hockey, skiing, doing home improvement projects and brewing beer.

Scott is an Engineering Manager at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He lives in Williston with his wife Jeanne. They are the proud parents of two adult sons, Ben and Mark.

My history with the GMC dates back to when I was 16 … I am now 70 , so this was a few years ago. I grew up near Bennington and began day and overnight hikes on the Long Trail. For about 30 yrs I have been shelter adopting, first at French Camp, then at Bear Hollow Shelter and most recently at Glen Ellen Lodge. Also, for 23 yrs I led a day hike of the Monroe Skyline from Lincoln Gap to Appalachian Gap. I thru hiked the LT back in 1982, North to South in 20 days. I am excited to learn the details  of the role and will be open to anyone who has experience in making that happen, especially my co-lead Scott Albertson.

Favorite long trail section? Duxbury Road to Camel’s Hump

Sunrise or sunset hike? sunrise

One piece of gear you love? hip pack or pocket

Go-to trail snack? Peanut M&Ms

Solo or group hike? solo

Susan moved to Vermont in early 2020 from Brooklyn, NY, and recently settled in Charlotte next to Mt. Philo State Park. Although a recent Vermont resident, she has regularly visited the state for the past 35+ years.

Growing up on a farm in Missouri, she loves the outdoors and Vermont is the perfect venue for outdoor activities. An avid fan of hiking and snowshoeing, she joined hikes with the Green Mountain Club on her regular visits to the state.

Susan retired in 2019 after a long career in the mortgage business, primarily focused on risk management and technology. Susan’s education includes a B.S. in mathematics and Masters in public policy analysis. She looks forward to more involvement with the Green Mountain Club

Michelle moved to the Burlington area in 2021 for graduate school and quickly got involved with the Green Mountain Club as the Annual Meeting Chair. She enjoys organizing events and collaborating with others to bring the community together.

Outside of work and volunteering, Michelle loves hiking, camping, and exploring the Green Mountains and all Vermont has to offer. 

Janette joined the Green Mountain Club after multiple family hikes on the Long Trail while vacationing most summers in Vermont. After moving to Burlington in 2016, she joined the Burlington Section and jumped right into the annual meeting chair given her past experiences running these type of events for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. Both her sons are Eagle Scouts and enjoy the outdoors thanks, in part, to the great work of the GMC.

While not an end-to-enders, she does enjoy time on the trail. She volunteers at Barnes Camp on the Mountain Road just below Smugglers Notch between the end of mud season and the beginning of stick season each year. She advises the many hikers and tourists that stop by for advice as well as highlights all that the GMC does to maintain the trails they enjoy. She also leads the annual Vermont Lake Monsters GMC night at Centennial field as another opportunity to advertise the work of the GMC.

I grew up day hiking on the southern LT, but I didn’t take to section hiking until 5 years ago when a friend and I started doing the northern sections during the summers. Since then, I’ve visited most of the shelters north of Route 4 and frequently day hike into some to have a sandwich, summer or winter. I love the old buildings on the LT and with a background in some restoration carpentry and painting I’m happy to help with some maintenance in my section with my friend Josh as Co-chairs. My favorite shelter on the trail is Tillotson Camp.

Josh moved to Vermont in 2004 and currently lives in Charlotte with his family plus a growing cast of dogs, cats, horses, and the occasional duck. His first hike was Mt Katahdin in Maine with his boy scout troop some time in 1988. Since then he’s hiked various parts of the Long Trail, the NH Presidential Range, Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone, and Chilean Patagonia. He hopes to complete the LT section by section with his friends over as many Summers as it takes.

Deanna grew up in Alberta, Canada and made her way to the US via a bicycling trip through Quebec, New Brunswick and Maine. She began a degree in Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Studies at Unity College in Maine before finally completing a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Environmental Studies. She currently lives in Underhill. Deanna loves running on the Long Trail, walking her dogs in the sugarwoods, spending QT with her loved ones, and most of all, drinking coffee. Her birthstone is a coffee bean. Accepting the role of RidgeLines is Deanna’s way of giving back to the trails that have brought her so much joy and the best memories.