A solo winter hiker doing the Appalachian Trail, going south from Baxter State Park, Maine and all the trail down to Georgia, is hiking the White Mountain National Forest right now, Sunday and Monday - Jan 16-17, 2022, walking from Crawford Notch to (almost) Mt Lafayette except the cold and wind drove him off back just above treeline on Mt Lafayette and into town. MAYBE he has headed over to the nearby Town of Sugar Hill for Polly's hot pancake breakfast at Polly's Pancakes?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUAuD0ygcbY&t=174s ... White Mountains, New Hampshire .... Sun Jan 16-big sunny day & Mon Jan 17-big snow storm day ..... a selfie pole, hand-held video made while hiking the Guyot Shelter between Mt Guyot, Mt Bond, N&S Twin Mt, Mt Garfield, and up-up-up toward Mt Lafayette hiking thru wind, cold and snow on the Appalachian Trail .... 26:31 ... Scott Benerofe .... A.T. winter thru-hiker, hiking southbound.
Believe the second unnamed overnight log shelter after the Guyot shelter is the Garfield Ridge shelter. Both are on or very close to the Appalachian Trail.
Day #1 started at Baxter State Park, up north in Maine on December 6, 2021 so that's six weeks of winter hiking and overnight camping experience on the Appalachian Trail for living out in the C-O-L-D and hiking the A.T., alone. No mosquitos, no black flies, no crowded hiking trail, no crowded shelters, no crowded parking lot and no big heat and high humidity when hiking the A.T. in New Hampshire in January ....... weeeoooo! .......
....... and shaazaam!
Cold cold temps are definitely here in New Hampshire this week, so's it could be a cold week for hiking and camping the A.T., solo, through the White Mountain National Forest. ....
.... cold! ..... today is Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022.
Hey, here's an interview .... first item on the Google ...... with 'Scott Benerhofe on His Ongoing SOBO Winter AT Thru-Hike' .....
https://thetrek.co/appalachian-trail...an-trail-hike/ ..... dated January 17, 2022 by Penina Satlow ..... with eight photos from his winter Appalachian Trail hike southbound thru relatively warm Maine in December and early January as he gets closer, step by step by snowy step to danged cold New Hampshire! My definition for danged c-o-l-d is +nine degrees, single digits, plus what wind and sunshine.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022 ......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzptm4tspMc ...... 'Appalachian Trail - Climb Back Up And Face The Wind- Franconia Ridge' .... White Mountains, New Hampshire ... 15:20
February 10, 2022 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6JR3hgCZfA .... 'Appalachian Trail - This is What It Takes - Rutland to Manchester Center' .... Green Mountains, Vermont ... 28:41
February 13, 2022 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv2JTep73r8 ... 'Appalachian Trail - A Warm Day - Manchester Center to Bennington' ... Green Mountains, Vermont ....18:09
February 18, 2022 ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkOJvK-ycVY ..... 'Appalachian Trail - Vermont Recap' .... 7:03
Looks like Scott Benerofe ..... aka Aquaman .... made it into Massachusetts, hiking on the Appalachian Trail ..... and everyone in New Hampshire knows that Massachusetts is so totally full of hot air! With hiking and camping the A.T. when its danged cold out, is good to take a zero-mile day indoors with heat and facilities; eat, sleep, rest and recover, watch the weather and wait for the right day to hit the trail, again, before hitting the trail with a fresh roast beef sub to eat!