Thursday August 30, 2007 Sterling Range Hike

Hike: Sterling Range Hike – Starting at the top of the notch, up the stone steps to Snuffy’s, out to the Mt Mansfield Overview at Spruce Peak, back to the Elephant’s Head Trail extension (around the back side of Sterling Pond) to Sterling lodge, out the Long Trail to Drifter Trail, continue on the Long Trail to Drifter again and up Drifter to the top of Madonna. Eat lunch. Go down Chilcoot ski trail to the Long Trail, into the Hansel and Grettle woods, back to Chilcoot and down to Gary B’s Northwest Passage and Ruthie’s, down to Rum Runner’s Reservoir. Down Meadowlark back to the village.

Guides: Mike and Dick

Hikers:
Richard Giacinto
Amanda Russell
Kelsey Russell
Leona Russell
Mark Russell
Eric Schnell
Bruce Lin

Sandwiches
Bagel with strawberry jelly
Bagel with turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, cheese & honey mustard
Ham, salami, cheese, lettuce, tomato, balsamic vinegar dressing sandwich
Turkey, lettuce, tomato, cheese & mustard sandwich
Cinnamon raisin PB with raspberry jam sandwich
Turkey cheddar mayo on whole wheat
Lentil and wheat sprouts, string beans, carrots, crab apples

Tuesday August 28, 2007 Mount Mansfield West Hike

Mt. Mansfield West Hike: Drove to Underhill State Park. Walked up the CCC road to the trail head, up the CCC road to the Half Way House trail to the Long Trail. After lunch, we went south on the Long Trail to the Forehead cutoff and on to the Toll Road. We took Hazelton trail to Route 108 for pick up.

Guides: Ed and Dick

Hikers:
Nancy Bell
Laurie Biershad
Elena Dale
Clare Dalton
Cheryl Frydman
Richard Gering
Robert Goodman
Patti Goodman
Arvi Mattenson
Pearl Mattenson

Lunches:

Tuna sandwich, Plum
PB & Strawberry jam sandwich
Salmon, carrots, roll & nectarine
Tuna with cheese on whole wheat sandwich
PB sandwich
Crunchy PB & Strawberry jam sandwich on whole grain, Fig Newton, chocolate
PB & Strawberry jam sandwich on multi grain bread
Crunchy PB sandwich on whole wheat
PB with cucumber on rice crackers

Thursday August 23, 2007 - Sterling Range Hike

Thursday August 23, 2007

Hike: Sterling Range Hike – Starting at the top of the notch, up the stone steps to Snuffy’s, out the Long Trail to the Elephant’s Head Vista and back. Out the Long Trail to Drifter Trail, continue on the Long Trail to Drifter again and up Drifter to the top of Madonna. Eat lunch. Go down Chilcoot ski trail to the Long Trail, into the Hansel and Grettle woods, back to Chilcoot and down to Gary B’s Northwest Passage and Ruthie’s, down to Rum Runner’s Reservoir. Continued onto the Meadow Lark trial and back to the Village.

Guides: Mike and Dick

Hiker:
- Elena Dale

Lunches:
- Sprouted Soy bread with PB and mango jam
- PB & raspberry jam
- PB & blueberry jam

Tuesday August 21, 2007 - Mt. Mansfield

Tuesday August 21, 2007

Mt. Mansfield West Hike: Drove to Underhill State Park. Walked up the CCC road to the trail head. Split into two groups. Ed took 7 up Sunset Ridge trail. Martha and I took 11 up the CCC road to the Half Way House trail. We then went north on the Canyon trail. Martha took 9 onto the Subway trail. I took 2 up to the ridge at the Subway cut off. We all went up the Long Trail to the Chin. After lunch, we went north on the Long Trail to Route 108 for pick up.

Guides: Ed, Martha, and Dick

Hikers:
Rick Beaupre - with Martha and Dick
Stephanie Beaupre - with Martha and Dick
Nancy Bell - with Ed
Benjamin Crastnopol - with Martha and Dick
David Crastnopol - with Ed
Michael Fortunato - with Martha and Dick
Darren Friedman - with Martha and Dick
Michelle Friedman - with Martha and Dick
Richard Gering - with Ed
Donald Goldberg - with Ed
Robert Goodman - with Ed
Robert Jablonski - with Martha and Dick
Anya Manning - with Martha and Dick
Henry Nienstedt - with Martha and Dick
Frank Palo - with Martha and Dick
David Weingast - with Ed
Max Weingast - with Ed
Kenneth Lapensee - with Martha and Dick

Lunches:
- Candy bar and beef jerky
- Ham & turkey
- PB
- Canadian bacon and cheese
- Flax seed pâté with lattice, turkey and mustard
- Flax seed pâté with lattice, ham and mustard
- PB & J
- Bagel and pop tarts
- Turkey and apple
- Zucchini, green beans and quinoa

Thursday August 16, 2007 - Guest Lunches - etc.

Hike: Sterling Range Hike – Starting at the top of the notch, up the stone steps to Snuffy’s, out to the Mt Mansfield Overview at Spruce Peak, back to the Elephant’s Head Trail extension (around the back side of Sterling Pond) to Sterling lodge, out the Long Trail to Drifter Trail, continue on the Long Trail to Drifter again and up Drifter to the top of Madonna. Eat lunch. Go down Chilcoot ski trail to the Long Trail, into the Hansel and Grettle woods, back to Chilcoot and down to Gary B’s Northwest Passage and Ruthie’s, down to Rum Runner’s Reservoir. Here we split and several went up Midway trail to the top of Morse Lift. We found some sun dew flowers. We took Bacon’s Run down through the woods to Wire Run and back to the Village.

Guests:
Rose Bonanno
Dan Carpenter
Bill Donovan
Lori Reardon-Roche
Mike Roche
Terri DeVincenzo
Raja Crowley
Paulo Demaots

Sandwiches today:
Humus, Mustard, Cucumber, Cheddar Cheese
Apple, PB, Cheddar Cheese
PB, Baloney
PB, Honey
PB, Plum
PB, Banana
Roast Beef, Mustard
PB, Soy imitation bacon bits
Ham & Cheese
PB, Jelly

One un-named person (whose initials are DC) told of making a tennis ball cannon with 4 Campbell soup cans. Use a nail to punch a small whole in the side of the bottom can. Half open the bottom of the next can and fold its cover so it is half open. Same for the next can. Open both ends of the forth can. Use duct tape to tap them together so the half open end are not lined up. Pour some gasoline into the bottom cans. Shake it up. Drop the tennis ball into the top two cans. Light a match and light the little whole in the bottom can. There are 3 possible out comes:
1) The tennis ball goes flying.
2) The tennis ball goes flying and you catch on fire.
3) You catch on fire.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME (or any where else)!!!