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View from Jug End, Taconic Mountains, Massachusetts. August 25, 2025.

November 8, 2025: This is an update and correction to my August post on the status of my planned long distance hikes.

On August 18 my friend Dave and I headed north along the Appalachian Trail from Falls Village, Connecticut towards Massachusetts. When we reached the Vermont border, we wanted to follow the Long Trail to its northern terminus at the Canadian border.

#hiking #outdoors #nature #forest #trails #mountains

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View from Jug End, Taconic Mountains, Massachusetts. August 25, 2025.

November 8, 2025: This is an update and correction to my August post on the status of my planned long distance hikes.

On August 18 my friend Dave and I headed north along the Appalachian Trail from Falls Village, Connecticut towards Massachusetts. When we reached the Vermont border, we wanted to follow the Long Trail to its northern terminus at the Canadian border.

#hiking #outdoors #nature #forest #trails #mountains

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We are on a mountain standing atop a rock outcrop of light gray rock marbled with darker gray. There is a pine tree to our right. Some hardwoods to our left are already showing signs of autumn, several have leaves of gold and orange. We are looking across a broad valley hundreds of feet below filled with the greens of late summer. Most of it is covered with deep green forests broken by emerald green pastures and farm fields. A small pond is not far away near the middle of our view. A line of blue green hills and mountains runs along the far horizon. A morning of clouds is just giving way to bright sunshine. The sky is a soft blue filled with lines of clouds.

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My 2025 hike is starting. My hiking partner Dave and I are hiking from Northwest Connecticut to Vermont's border with Canada. We start with 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Falls Village, Connecticut to the Massachusetts-Vermont border. Upon entering Vermont, the Appalachian Trail follows Vermont's Long Trail for just over 100 miles.

#hiking #nature

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My 2025 hike is starting. My hiking partner Dave and I are hiking from Northwest Connecticut to Vermont's border with Canada. We start with 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Falls Village, Connecticut to the Massachusetts-Vermont border. Upon entering Vermont, the Appalachian Trail follows Vermont's Long Trail for just over 100 miles.

#hiking #nature

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Superimposed on this picture are the words, "Gone hiking. See you in October." We are walking a trail climbing a ridge crest through a field of lush green grass under a bright partly cloudy sky. In the foreground are some large gray rocks and rhododendron shrubs. There are stubbly leafy plants scattered among the grass and a forest of small, leafless trees surrounding the field. A backpacker is nearing the top of a rounded knob. The trail then descends slightly and climbs again towards a loftier summit.

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Many thanks to all those who put up with my endless book promotion on this site as I scraped together enough funds to make these upcoming adventures possible. Special thanks to those who bought my book and those who read it on Kindle Unlimited or listened to it on Audible Plus.

What follows is "The Long Road Home"

Cross-posted from my hiking blog: https://www. georgesteffanos.com/hiking-blog

Waiting for the rain to stop in Library Park, Waterbury, CT. April 6, 2022, 6:59 AM. During my homeless period.

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Many thanks to all those who put up with my endless book promotion on this site as I scraped together enough funds to make these upcoming adventures possible. Special thanks to those who bought my book and those who read it on Kindle Unlimited or listened to it on Audible Plus.

What follows is "The Long Road Home"

Cross-posted from my hiking blog: https://www. georgesteffanos.com/hiking-blog

Waiting for the rain to stop in Library Park, Waterbury, CT. April 6, 2022, 6:59 AM. During my homeless period.

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Monochrome image. We are standing in an octagonally shaped brick and concrete pavilion on a gloomy and rainy day in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut. Early morning traffic is light, cars are driving with their headlights on. The trees are still leafless, it is early spring. A number of rather old brick buildings surround this intersection.

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I had intended to begin hiking the Appalachian Trail for the second time in March 2025, forty-two years after my 1983 thru-hike. Then in September 2024 Hurricane Helene devastated the southern third of the Appalachian Trail.

We now have a new plan to hike more than 800 miles in 2025 while waiting for the spring of 2026 to attempt the full Appalachian Trail hike. The first of two planned hikes starts on or about April 14.

#backpacking #hiking #mountains #AppalachianTrail #outdoors #forest

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I had intended to begin hiking the Appalachian Trail for the second time in March 2025, forty-two years after my 1983 thru-hike. Then in September 2024 Hurricane Helene devastated the southern third of the Appalachian Trail.

We now have a new plan to hike more than 800 miles in 2025 while waiting for the spring of 2026 to attempt the full Appalachian Trail hike. The first of two planned hikes starts on or about April 14.

#backpacking #hiking #mountains #AppalachianTrail #outdoors #forest

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Beneath a soft blue summer sky with hazy white clouds we are atop the crest of Blue Mountain standing on a grassy overlook looking across a dense thicket of shrubs and then the treetops of the forested mountainside below. We are looking north along the wooded ridgeline of Blue Mountain into Pennsylvania, where the mountain becomes more of a mountain range, throwing out impressive spur ridges. To our left is a small wedge of the vast agricultural Cumberland Valley with farms and small villages. Straight ahead on a small plateau partway down the western slope of blue mountain is a large grassy park: Pen Mar County Park in Maryland on the Pennsylvania border.

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Then The Hail Came News

You can read or listen to my book for free if you are a Kindle Unlimited (eBook) or an Audible Plus (audiobook) subscriber. More about my audiobook just below. Both of these options are available from Amazon, where the paperback, eBook or audiobook can also be purchased.

https://www. amazon.com/dp/B09QFG4ZR6

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Then The Hail Came News

You can read or listen to my book for free if you are a Kindle Unlimited (eBook) or an Audible Plus (audiobook) subscriber. More about my audiobook just below. Both of these options are available from Amazon, where the paperback, eBook or audiobook can also be purchased.

https://www. amazon.com/dp/B09QFG4ZR6