Anyone up for hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness late August/early September?
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Appalachian Trail 100 mile wilderness hike
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I haven't hiked any of the Maine AT but I have heard that if Baxter is closed, you can still ascend, but they won't help you if you get in trouble....I've always felt its a little ridiculous to PAY to be in the woods....
lemonlime571
Army Veteran
What's the estimated hike time? I assume 5-6 days...
Hey i am a new member here have some health issues right now but thinking October But was looking more into doing vermont as the rules as far as primitive camping are far better I also am generally a 8-10 mile a day hiker max I am a stop and smell the roses guy not a pusher the concept that someone mentioned to do 100 miles in 5 or 6 days blows my mind thats killer if you can do it and enjoy that sort of thing wow! I haven't backpacked in a over a year had a bone marrow transplant last September and need to get back into the swing of things but even as a teen I never broke much more then ten miles a day 8 is my happy place I also love to hike in october you can hunt for your dinner legally grouse bunnys are in season! I avoid the 2 weeks of shotgun deer season and defintly have some blaze orange on!
i most certainly would not try to sustain on bunnys and grouse lol..I just like to have something to do while back packing and i love to hunt.. defiantly made a mistake as i read 100 mile wilderness as a 100 mile hike my apologies..as for my current health issues would be cgvhd of the eyes basically my new immune system is attacking my eyes witch has stopped them from producing tears,, and makes my vision blurry I am seeing a specialist in the next couple weeks who can hopefully improve the situation as my eyes dry up quickly when i go outside.. also considering how much it sucks to try to read a computer screen is why I likely read the post wrong..
pending on what I plan on hunting if its only going to be bunnies and i am thinking weight i bring along a 22 pistol a walther p22 and a box of 100 rounds is about 2 pounds not bad.. if i am thinking grouse as well and dont mind some extra weight i have a youth 20 gauge that packs well i have a long sock i put over it and no buddy know what it is.. also a little 410 youth model is cool i have a friend with a pink one believe it or not he got it cheep and its so bright you cant lose it lol.. I have yet to see the 10.22 take down but seems like maybe a good idea again with the weight you have to consider.. I also always pick up a non resident hunting licence if i am not in Massachusetts Vermont has a small game one for like 20 bucks non resident Maine on the other hand is quite exspencive as i recall
Cerfer a couple of hikes you may want to look into are the Monadnock Sunapee greenway and section hiking the Long trail in Vermont
http://www.msgtc.org/ 50 miles
http://www.greenmountainclub.org/page.php?id=2 273miles
Another lesser known hike is
http://www.wapack.org/ 21 miles
I'm sure MA has some nice hikes as well, if you live that way and there are several places where you could do and 8 mile hike while hunting and then hike out the following day. I would also avoid hunting on "hiking" trails as they are filled with granola crunching, tree hugging, save the whale types
http://www.msgtc.org/ 50 miles
http://www.greenmountainclub.org/page.php?id=2 273miles
Another lesser known hike is
http://www.wapack.org/ 21 miles
I'm sure MA has some nice hikes as well, if you live that way and there are several places where you could do and 8 mile hike while hunting and then hike out the following day. I would also avoid hunting on "hiking" trails as they are filled with granola crunching, tree hugging, save the whale types
Knob Creek
NES Member
I always had hopes of doing the Presidential Traverse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Traverse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Traverse
The blurry vision is new only been there for a month and hopefully will be gone within the next then back to normal, thanks for the vermont hikes I will check them out! I have done alot in vermont I used to live just south of vermont and work in brattleboro...and you are right there are some, great hikes in mass but in vermont primtave camping esspecially in the green mountain national forest is not frowned apon... alot of MA is desginated areas only and i hate that i oftendont want to camp with people i dont know or a loud ubnoxious or annoying in vermont i look at my gps it has satlitie phots see if i can find a clearing of some type .5 miles off a trail and set up there with a buddy and no one will bother us... I sleep in a jungle hammok and sometimes i can set up right over a brook it will put me to sleep can't do that at the designated mass areas I have nvever had to much troubble with the vermont hippies as far as hunting they have a diffrent type of lefty up there alot of them have obama stickers and browning stickers on there trucks lol..... as far as the name cerfur I grew up on the cape and used to surf that was my handle for everything. Back then I was big into surfing.. then I quit surfing but the handle spelled cerfur is always avalible in every forum makes it easy to rember for log in and people recognize me from forum to forum...... but back on topic feel like I am hijacking a thread here the 100 mile wilderness I would defintly be up for next year I have always toyed with the idea of someday doing a through hike of the appliation trail and from what I understand the 100 mile wilderness is one of the hardest parts if I did it a couple of times would defintly boost my feeling on my abilty to do the whole trail
I did it in 4 1/2 days but I was ready to get off the trail and those were 4 pretty tough days. Most take 7-10 days. The weather can be tricky in Sept/Oct and if it rains the creeks are really hard or impossible to cross with any degree of safety which will slow you down if you can't hitchhike around them.
I wouldn't mind a fall hike to those of you interested/can take the time off....I prefer a quieter trail and it tends to get calmer later in the fall. That being said I have a flexible work schedule and can take time off. I am 23 and in pretty good shape but I do not mind going at a slower pace if need be. I'm just mostly looking to get out and explore with someone that appreciates the wilderness and getting off the grid for a while....
Wow, I didn't know there was a trail from Sunapee to Monadnock. There is also the Midstate Trail which extends off of the Wapack and goes to Connecticut
Probably a good idea.![[grin]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/041.gif "Grin [grin]")
From my limited experience in in the woods and everything I've read about the 100 mile wilderness, that's sure as shit not the place to find out that your stuff is no good for the task. I'm not keen on the idea of being choppered out, or dead due to my own arrogance.
Any of you cats have Mondays off for some shorter day hikes?
Hiltonizer
Banned
A friend from High School is doing a documentary for her film school of hiking the whole trail non-stop (yeah, total hipster, haven't seen her in a long time for obvious reasons.. but she's good people generally). She's been out there since april or something, started down in West Virginia if I'm not mistaken.
Donated to her kickstarter and we chatted about gear. I requested she discuss experiences in that regard in the film. Looking forward to seeing the final product.
For those interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXfB_cuakU
Donated to her kickstarter and we chatted about gear. I requested she discuss experiences in that regard in the film. Looking forward to seeing the final product.
For those interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXfB_cuakU
NOBO'd in 1999. The distance between 2 points is the same when measured in either direction! 
silly southbounders. Southies start later and begin in really hard terrain and it gets easier as they go South but they also get the worst of the summer heat in VA,GA. Northies start in the fall with rain and very hilly terrain in GA and walk into spring. The 100 mile wilderness is anything BUT wilderness. You will hear logging trucks almost every night, ALL night. The place is crawling with city dwellers looking for a "wilderness" experience. I spent a memorable evening with 2 morons/lawyers (sorry did I repeat myself?) at a shelter in the 100 mile and they read about it in Backpacker and LEFT ALASKA to see the wilderness. lmao. It is a nice hike and it is tough in places. I'd like to go back and do it again since I did it in 4 days and would like to stop and see things better.
silly southbounders. Southies start later and begin in really hard terrain and it gets easier as they go South but they also get the worst of the summer heat in VA,GA. Northies start in the fall with rain and very hilly terrain in GA and walk into spring. The 100 mile wilderness is anything BUT wilderness. You will hear logging trucks almost every night, ALL night. The place is crawling with city dwellers looking for a "wilderness" experience. I spent a memorable evening with 2 morons/lawyers (sorry did I repeat myself?) at a shelter in the 100 mile and they read about it in Backpacker and LEFT ALASKA to see the wilderness. lmao. It is a nice hike and it is tough in places. I'd like to go back and do it again since I did it in 4 days and would like to stop and see things better.No kidding.
I ran into two different groups of south bound through hikers this week who said that the northbound route is both easier and shorter. I've got no way of verifying this right now, and was wondering if maybe that was just a SOBO vs NOBO thing, and what you're experience of it was.
NOBO'd in 2004. For people who don't know, the large majority of thru hikers go northbound (probably around 70/30). I think this is why many SOBOs develop this attitude that they are somehow rebels and doing something much tougher than NOBOs, which is a bunch of nonsense. Yeah, you do the harder terrain in the beginning and there aren't as many amenities in towns up north and such but really all this stuff evens out in the course of a 2000+ mile hike. I can't imagine not having finished my hike at Katahdin.
With regards to the 100 mile wilderness, I agree with at99sy that it's really not all it's cracked up to be. Definitely more wild than many other sections of the trail but not really true wilderness. That doesn't mean it's not an incredible place to hike, though. I didn't hear trucks at night or encounter that many city people, but I was also up there pretty late in the season (early October, really beautiful).
I wonder how many 2000 milers we have here on NES?
With regards to the 100 mile wilderness, I agree with at99sy that it's really not all it's cracked up to be. Definitely more wild than many other sections of the trail but not really true wilderness. That doesn't mean it's not an incredible place to hike, though. I didn't hear trucks at night or encounter that many city people, but I was also up there pretty late in the season (early October, really beautiful).
I wonder how many 2000 milers we have here on NES?
