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Mount Mansfield 7-30-2006 4393' (The Chin, Adams Apple, The Forehead)
Hiked Mansfield (and various other summits along the ridge). Mount Mansfield, home of the Ski mountain Stowe is Vermont's tallest peak, standing at a Beefy 4393'. I followed the Long Trail from Route 108 to the top. This was a pretty hard 2800 vertical. The final ascent which accounted for about 300 vertical was a rocky nightmare climb. As I reached the summit was it cold and windy (upper 40s for temperature). I didn't stick around long, although not cause of the wind and cold, but because annoying elitists were up there talking about computers (side note I hate when people do that, I hike to get away from things like that). I went slightly south of the summit and chugged a Long Trail Ale beer. I always wanted to enjoy a Long trail on the Long trail, not to mention I wanted to see how much more the alcohol affected me at 4400' (not much). I traveled the ridge line a mile or two to the parking lot near "the nose" (the mountain from S to N had peaks named after facial features, the summit is "the chin". I walked up a road to some communication towers only to find that "the nose" was closed off due to exceeding FCC RF radiation exposure! Saddened I traveled up to the most southern summit called "the forehead". I ate lunch and then made my way back to the chin. At this point the chin was very crowded (when I arrived earlier there were maybe 5 people, now there were 50). I took some pictures of the now much more clear surroundings and proceeded down the cliffs from hell. I bypassed "the Adam's apple" to Lake of the clouds. My intent was to reach Bear Head. The trail to Bear Head was abandoned and impassible. I was too worn out to bushwhack it, so I went up the "Adam's apple" connector trail to get to my final summit. I enjoyed the view of Mansfield summit for a little while then went south back to Long Trail. I went on my last descent for the weekend very slowly as I had acquired several blisters throughout the day. Overall I spent nearly 4 hours up on the ridgeline enjoying the view. The total vertical climbed on this trip was a little over 3800'. Weekend Total was 10880', a record! Click Here for the Hike Map
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