I love these vlogs! You do a great job with overall feel and pace of them, and I've had a great time following you two on your adventure! I don't want it to end haha You two need to hike another trail ASAP!
Thanks for showing so much of the Notch, many don't show much of it. I don't know what the date was when you made it through but other volgers recently did not show snow, so you are really killing the trail this year. Good for you.
My family have been watching you over the last few weeks. Every morning we watch you progress together. We are all from Maine. It's fun to watch a local girl kick butt.
What an awesome day. That notch looked so cool. So different from the rest of the trail lol. I can tell some newenglanders chose the path for this section lol
7:46 Stretch's Duplex setup on the platform, I see a face with tongue sticking out. Hahah. Nice job, so funny. I loved the Mahoosic Notch, but that tight squeeze gave me legit claustrophobia just looking at it. Love you both! Keep on rockin' to Katahdin!
Your so cute ! and the views are so nice, I'm in the dry west, but your food choices are atrocious ! get some good fruit, veggies and nuts ! Gourmet camp food is not difficult, spices: ginger, cinnamon, garlic, to liven up potatoes, apples, which you can do hundreds of different dishes with. Hard boiled eggs, dried Wild Ak Salmon, or foil packs, portable packs from costco of brown rice, quinoa, and lentils are so quick and easy to heat, a really good water purifier and a portable camp stove are crucial ! Do Yosemite, next ! A show of the skinny dipping rock quarries would be great too. Monadnock and Chocorua would be good to cover ! I especially like swimming in Whitten Pond and diving at the Milford quarry. Love to You both ! great shows !
Morning Taylor! What an awesome day! Challenging and refreshing indeed! I love that there is still snow there. You are a great partner ordering stretch some new shoes. His shoes definitely needed replacing. There is something special about sunrise/sunsets in a Maine, they are just so beautiful. Thanks for bringing us along today. I hope tomorrow’s miles are kind. Keep truckin’ and be well. -Grateful
It seems like it only took you a split second to get from Mahoosuc Notch up to Mahoosuc Arm. Good job! Taylor, have you ever done The Lost River in New Hampshire? That's what the Mahoosuc Notch reminds me of. It was also very nice of you to get Stretch new shoes. I think you will remain friends forever. Thank you for posting.
Taylor looks like a lot of fun for you guys. I am liking the high hair bun action. You two make a good hiking pair. Its nice to have someone to share the experience with. thx Da Breeze
Glad you were able to video it. Some people only show certain sections. Amazing Stretch can hike practically barefoot. Wild and beautiful area. I hope to do it someday. I grew up in Berlin looking at it outside my window, so its been on my bucket list forever
Like everyone else, watching your progress has been my guilty pleasure when I get up most days. You guys really do seem to be having a terrific time of it 😁
Nice that you bought Stretch some new shoes. He needs them. Notch had to be extra sketchy for him with all the ice and snow (and rocks) with worn out tread. That was where you needed the most grip a shoe provides. Good job on the notch though. I'm surprised that there was still that much snow in there.
Nice work. (I met a young Sobo when I arrived at the Notch and when he told me that it took him two hours to cover the mile, I figured it would take me three. But I went over the top and rock hopped it in 80 minutes. At that point I was very enthused beginning the mile and a half up the Arm. However, the time I saved through the Most Difficult Mile was used up during the following climb.) You'll be members of the club in short order.
Thanks again for a great way to start my day following you and Stretch - glad you made it safely through the notch - looking forward to tomorrow - onward and northward.
I didn't even notice that. I was trying to figure out what was written on the one below it. The one that was vandalized with the paint scraped off. I was trying to find the distance to the notch and that is what someone scraped off. Something is written above it too.
The second time I did this trail there was a rotting moose near the beginning. The moose had broken its leg in the winter and slowly decomposed over the summer. The smell was intensely bad.
I love that you have the sound of the under rock stream in the Vlog. Also, when I did this section last July, I bonked going up Mahoosuc Arm, not to speak of the aggressive grouse that I couldn't out climb.
I'm not sure where you and Stretch are on the trail now but as you past the area please remember Inchworm, Geraldine Largay, the AT hiker who was last seen at the Poplar Ridge lean-to and got off trail heading to the Spaulding lean-to in July 2013. Sadly she lost her life unable to find the trail again. Searchers combed the area for three weeks. She was found more than two years later by a surveyor, solving the mystery of what happened to her and closure to the family.
@@TaylortheNahamshaHiker Oh Taylor, hello! I didn't know about the book. I'm going to read it too. I followed the news at the time, it was such a mystery as to what happened to her. Seemed unbelievable she wasn't found. The authorities determined that they had been as close as 300 feet to her camp. Such a tragedy. Have you passed the Poplar lean-to already? You guys are crushing it, you're such an inspiration! Thank you for sharing your journey. :o)
@@TaylortheNahamshaHiker Google “Mainernews Gerry trail” and there is a review of the new book and many more details and opinion on her demise, by an investigative reporter which is absolutely fascinating. Also on Animal Planet’s North Woods Law, there is an episode where the crew chronicles the searches and recovering her body by the game wardens (I have seen it, and it was not re-enacted). Moral of story - don’t rely on your cell phone to save you. By the way this episode of yours is my favorite, videoing each other really shows the difficulty of this section of the trail, and you two have been a joy to follow! Thanks for sharing!
So that “trail” looks sketchy- like someone is playing a joke on all you Thru hikers to see if you would actually climb over/under/through those jungle-jim crazy areas & down those “metal bar” steps. 😳. Also- are the white blazes easy to spot? Love the QUEEN snickers!
