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Quarterly of the Green Mountain Club WINTER 2017 NEWS Quarterly of the Green Mountain Club WINTER 2017 LONG TRAIL NEWS • WINTER 2017 | 1 The mission of the Green Mountain Club is to make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the Long Trail System and fostering, through education, the stewardship of Vermont’s hiking trails and mountains. Skyline Lodge Privy Quarterly of the CONTENTS Green Mountain Club Winter 2017, Volume 77, No. 4 Michael DeBonis, Executive Director Jocelyn Hebert, Long Trail News Editor FEATURES Richard Andrews, Volunteer Copy Editor Green Mountain Club 6 / Tested by Winter: Trekking to Glen Ellen Lodge 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road By Krista Karlson Waterbury Center, Vermont 05677 Phone: (802) 244-7037 7 / Skinning, Skiing, and Splitboarding in the Fax: (802) 244-5867 E-mail: [email protected] Brandon Backcountry Website: www.greenmountainclub.org By Lenny Crisostomo TheLong Trail News is published by The Green Mountain Club, Inc., a nonprofit organization founded 8/ Beyond the Cathole: Everything you Didn’t Know you in 1910. In a 1971 Joint Resolution, the Vermont Legislature designated the Green Mountain Club the Wanted to Know About Outhouses “founder, sponsor, defender and protector of the Long Trail System...” By Justin Towers Contributions of manuscripts, photos, illustrations, and 11 / McGraths Celebrate 40 Years at Sherburne Pass news are welcome from members and nonmembers. By Sue Thomas The opinions expressed byLTN contributors and advertisers are not necessarily those of GMC. GMC reserves the right to refuse advertising that is not in 12 / A Fortress, A Treehouse: The Long Trail Lodge in the 1950s keeping with the goals of the organization. By David Wright TheLong Trail News (USPS 318-840) is published quarterly by The Green Mountain Club, Inc., 4711 14 / Winter Travels: A Photo Essay Waterbury-Stowe Road, Waterbury Center, VT 05677. Periodicals postage paid at Waterbury Center, VT and DEPARTMENTS additional offices. Subscription is a benefit for GMC members. Approximately $5 of each member’s dues is 3 / From the President 23 / A Century of Long Trail used to publish the Long Trail News. 4 / Mountain Views Guidebooks: A Retrospective POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Long Trail News, 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road, Waterbury 5 / Blue Blazes 24 / GMC Outdoor Programs Center, VT 05677. 16 / Field Notes 25 / Volunteers Copyright©2017 The Green Mountain Club, Inc., 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road, Waterbury Center, VT 17 / Trail Mix 26 / Sections 05677. Permission to reproduce in any form any of 18 / Land Stewardship 28 / James P. Taylor Outdoor Series the material in this publication without prior written approval of The Green Mountain Club, Inc. is granted 20 / Meet the Staff 31 / Journey’s End only to individuals for their own personal hiking convenience. 23 / Board Report Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation: Filing date, September 21, 2017. Long Trail News. Publication No. 318-840, published four times per year. Office of publication, editorial and general business office located at 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road, Waterbury Center, Vermont 05677. Editor: Jocelyn Hebert. Owner: The Green Mountain Club, Inc. Average number of copies each issue during preceding twelve months: Total number of copies printed, 7,400. Total paid distribution, 6,642. Total free distribution, 758. Total distribution, 7,400. Office use and otherwise not distributed, 0. Total, 7,400. Percent paid distri- Cover: Winter on the Worcester Range. bution, 89.76%. Number of copies of single issue published nearest to filing date: Total number of copies printed, 6,800. Total paid distribution, 6,307. Total free Photo by Brenda Buckbee. distribution, 290. Total distribution, 6,800. Office use and otherwise not distributed, 0. Total, 6,800. Percent paid distribution, 95.6%. – Jocelyn Hebert, Editor From the President A Blueprint for GMC’s Future MC’s board of directors recently • Pursue completion of the Long Trail adopted a new strategic plan that Protection Campaign. In thirty years we identifies important goals and strat- have protected all but six miles of the Long Gegies for all aspects of the club’s activities over Trail on a willing buyer–willing seller basis. the next five years. The plan is the product of As opportunities to work with land owners a year of systematic self-examination by the arise, GMC will be ready to protect those entire organization, and paints a picture of properties and the Long Trail. who we want to be in the future. It will keep • Diversify our revenue sources. us focused on our core mission of protecting Much of and maintaining the Long Trail while rec- the Long Trail crosses public land whose ognizing that the way we achieve that must managers help fund the cost of our trail evolve with changing times. It also reflects crews and caretakers working on their land. the fact that the Green Mountain Club is a Public funding has been in decline, and the maturing organization with an impressive dependability of future funding is uncertain. capacity to achieve great things. We need to ensure that our trail programs are fully maintained regardless of public funding. PHOTO BY DAN CARDOZO Key strategic goals identified • Increase the endowment. We plan to John at the end of his 3rd Long Trail hike, 2017. in the plan include: add $1.6 million to our current endowment • Achieve trail parity. We plan to invest of $4.6 million. A strong endowment is the • Ensure volunteer and membership vitality. significant additional resources in tread foundation of future financial security, because We will pursue strategies to promote the vital- hardening on the Long Trail north of the it provides a reliable and sustainable stream of ity of our fourteen sections as well as the club’s Lamoille River. Anyone who has hiked the income for annual operating expenses. general membership. In particular, we aim to whole trail can attest that the northern trail • Become an employer of choice. We want induce more trail users to become members. has significantly fewer durable improvements the Green Mountain Club to become an Many of these goals will require new for erosion control such as water bars, stone employer of choice by providing industry- funding sources, but we view this plan as a steps, and puncheon, than southern sections. leading compensation and a work environ- serious investment in the club’s future. We are Our volunteers north of the Lamoille do an ment that will better enable us to attract and confident of GMC’s capacity to build and excellent job of annual trail maintenance, retain talented staff. grow, and we are excited to see what the club but serious tread hardening requires the skills will look like in another five years. To read and energy of our professional trail crews. • Engage the next generation of trail users. the full plan and measure Because the Long Trail is notoriously wet and We will expand our outreach and education our progress, please visit our website at muddy, these improvements are essential if programming to engage future generations of greenmountainclub.org/strategicplan. we want a world class hiking trail. trail users and club leaders. — John Page, President Sterling Pond. Photo by Chris Diegel. LONG TRAIL NEWS • WINTER 2017 | 3 Mountain Views Remarkable Field Staff and up to Churchill Scott Shelter as part of another trip to visit friends in the Northeast My partner and I just Kingdom earlier this year. Thank you for in- completed our second spiring us. We are looking forward to a happy thru-hike of the Long GMC Officers hike in Vermont soon. John Page, President Trail (northbound). Tom Candon, Vice President —Jim Anderson and Jeanne Camin Stephen Klein, Treasurer While I plan to file a Lee Allen, Secretary trail diary, I also wanted GMC Directors to make a BIG KUDOS Restoring the Crosscut Saw Robynn Albert, General to Scout Phillips [Battell I enjoyed the article on crosscut saws, and it Lars Botzojorns, General Michelle Connor, Burlington Shelter and Mount got me to thinking. I am eighty years old and Hope Crifo, General Abe Caretaker]. All have a two-man crosscut that was my father’s. Marge Fish, Manchester Russ Ford, Northern Frontier of the caretakers we He and my uncle used it when they cleared James Fritz, Connecticut encountered at shelters our house lot in Simsbury, Connecticut in Jean Haigh, Northeast Kingdom Peter Hope, Ottauquechee were friendly and 1946; in the early fifties I used it with another Paul Houchens, General helpful. Scout, however, went way beyond that. 4-H member, and we entered and won a Anne Janeway, General Wayne Krevetski, General He was extraordinary! He kept a beautiful site contest in the Hartford County 4-H Fair at Sheri Larsen, General (complete with a hand-colored weather report Cherry Park in Canton, Connecticut. My Ron Lucier, Sterling Doug McKain, Bread Loaf in the privy), offered us homemade granola bars, grown children have no interest in owning it. I Ed O’Leary, General was knowledgeable about the trail, and extremely am interested in contacting Larry Walter. If he John Oliva, Worcester Ira Sollace, General warm hearted. What a positive influence in the thinks it is worth sharpening I would donate Martha Stitelman, Bennington middle of our hike! . I read his blog and was so it to the Green Mountain Club. By the way, Cynthia Taylor-Miller, Killington Dann Van Der Vliet, General taken with his attitude and commitment. Kudos the tooth style is Perforated Lance. Howard VanBenthuysen, General to you for finding such remarkable people to —Lou Faivre, Brandon Matt Wels, Brattleboro Mike Wetherell, Montpelier staff the shelters and be present on the summits. John Zaber, General —Alan Paschell, Calais Vacant, Laraway GMC Staff Directory Main Telephone: (802) 244-7037 Hiking the Long Trail Song Jason Buss, Director of Finance Thanks so much for including mention of the E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (802) 241-8214 “Hiking the Long Trail” song in the fall 2017 issue! Ilana Copel, Field Supervisor I deeply appreciate it.
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