One Year in Vermont: Hiking the Long Trail continued: Hiking around Griffith Lake

Hello again! I've fallen far behind in updating the blog, so we're going to take a trip in the wayback machine back to the halcyon days of fall. Sections (5) and (6), surrounding Griffith lake, were really quiet and pretty. The first half included a hike up Baker peak, which was a refreshingly breezy. Once at Griffith Lake, I took a path called Old Job trail on the map, which wound up being part of a system snowmobile trail that crosses the state.

The snowmobile trail bypassed Baker peak and was quite flat. Unfortunately, an entire stretch of it had been washed away by the nearby creek during Hurricane Irene, and some of the otherwise flat hiking was turned into climbing.

The second section of the hike started at Mad Tom Notch, a long gravel road that was made a little sketchier by the heavy rain that had been falling for much of the week. It wasn't quite as fun as the first section, but seeing Griffith lake shrouded in fog was well worth the price of admission on its own.