[at-l] Report - Trail Magic at Crawford Notch

[Marsha Lee]

What a nice way to spend a birthday RD!  Darn rain. 

Nice company eh? 

Have fun at the Long Trail Festival. 

Love
Marsha 



From: rockdancer97 at comcast.net
To: at-l at backcountry.net
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:12:47 -0400
Subject: [at-l] Report - Trail Magic at Crawford Notch














Short 
report: weather off & on showers Thurs & Fri, nice on Sat. Finally met 
Susan Buchanan! and we fed about 19 hikers! with help from Goldthumb '97 and 
Stitches '99.
 
Thursday: arrived about 3 PM and set up with a cooler, veggies & 
fruit, and a Whisperlite to make hot water for tea, hot chocolate, etc. At 9 pm 
it was dark, no one walked by, although I have to admit at times the rain was 
thick enough for me to miss them if they were more than 10 feet away. Goldthumb 
('97) didn't arrive at dark as promised so I figured he was working 
emergency crew with all the flash floods happening about 50 miles S. Stealth 
camped in the rain.
 
Friday: set up by 8 AM, Goldthumb arrives - turned out we never talked 
about which trailhead we were doing this year! My fault... With off &on 
showers we hosted the following hikers, at times crowded together under the 
Walrus tarp we set up:
Sea to 
Land - NoBo
Smoky 
- SoBo
Brian 
from Maine - heading S after finishing on July 18 at Katahdin, on a 
YoYo.
Mountain Mic - NoBo
Stomps 
& Shufflen
Thinker
Lotus
Susan, 
Corley and Shutterbug from http://www.get-athike.org/ in support 
of the Great Eastern Trail
Boot 
Strap (from S. Africa by way of New Zealand)
(Billy) the Kid
Wing 
It
Fire
 
For 
many of the southbounders this was their first trail magic - I'm especially 
proud of that! Stitches showed up around 3 PM with hotdogs, snack cakes & a 
birthday cake for me! Lots of fun hearing trail stories in the rain, delaying 
some of these hikers for several hours. Great way to spend a birthday, I 
recommend it.
 
Sat: 
Set up early again and we treated 4 hikers. The only names I have are MacGyver 
& Godzilla, southbound. By noontime I was feeling poorly and decided that 
although the weather was much, much better I really should get back home for 
rest. Stitches was going to continue for the rest of the day, and perhaps on 
Sunday. If it works out I'll try to find her again this week and maybe get a day 
in the Whites before heading to the Long Trail Festival on the 
weekend.
 
 

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