una_dogger
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Hey All!
I want to do a 30 mile backpacking trip this upcoming fourth of July weekend and am looking for suggestions.
I was thinking of heading up to the ADK High Peaks friday night, staying over at the South Meadows and then sat am heading out the Klondike Brook Trail for a hike over Marcy and then around Calamity Ponds to a long walk back through Indian Pass. But then, I thought, hey! Fourth of July weekend + Adirondack High Peaks= nuts!
Anyone have any suggestions? I have only one car so looping is necessary. I'm kinda considering the Stratton Pond Area of VT Long Trail but that may be too tame and too short of mileage to get two really long days in. Also, when I was there doing the LT last summer there were a number of trail closures posted on the lye brook trials and so that further may limit the area.
My other criteria is my dog Terra, so that rules out the Cornell/Wittenberg/Slide/Panther/Giant Ledge mega walk from Denning in the Catskills due to LADDERS. I can't do long, vertical ladders with a dog without another person along to help with the pup belay.
Anybody got any suggestions for a moderate to strenous thirty mile loop hike within four hours drive of the Poughkeepsie, NY area that doesn't involve any steep vertical ladders or for that matter insane steep ledges such as those on Dix in the ADKs, they are just not my cup of tea when fullpacking it solo with a dog.
Thanks,
Sabrina
the Unadogger and
Terra Firma the Trail dog
I want to do a 30 mile backpacking trip this upcoming fourth of July weekend and am looking for suggestions.
I was thinking of heading up to the ADK High Peaks friday night, staying over at the South Meadows and then sat am heading out the Klondike Brook Trail for a hike over Marcy and then around Calamity Ponds to a long walk back through Indian Pass. But then, I thought, hey! Fourth of July weekend + Adirondack High Peaks= nuts!
Anyone have any suggestions? I have only one car so looping is necessary. I'm kinda considering the Stratton Pond Area of VT Long Trail but that may be too tame and too short of mileage to get two really long days in. Also, when I was there doing the LT last summer there were a number of trail closures posted on the lye brook trials and so that further may limit the area.
My other criteria is my dog Terra, so that rules out the Cornell/Wittenberg/Slide/Panther/Giant Ledge mega walk from Denning in the Catskills due to LADDERS. I can't do long, vertical ladders with a dog without another person along to help with the pup belay.
Anybody got any suggestions for a moderate to strenous thirty mile loop hike within four hours drive of the Poughkeepsie, NY area that doesn't involve any steep vertical ladders or for that matter insane steep ledges such as those on Dix in the ADKs, they are just not my cup of tea when fullpacking it solo with a dog.
Thanks,
Sabrina
the Unadogger and
Terra Firma the Trail dog