This coming Friday and Saturday my wife Kathy and I will be taking a friend on her first ever backpacking trip.
It's something she asked us to help her with, we didn't talk her into it.
We've worked with her on things to bring, and not bring, and have lent her our Tarptent Rainbow.
We'll drive north a couple hours and park where the AT crosses route 302 in New York and then hike 7 miles northbound to the RPH shelter.
We picked that route and destination because it's 7 miles with a few ups and downs but nothing crazy and there's almost always water available at the RPH shelter.
I'll be carrying our winter stove, an MSR Simmerlite and a pot large enough to make a simple dinner for 3. If that isn't enough for her pizza can be ordered, and delivered to, the shelter. Not only that, if there room the shelter has bunks and we won't need to use the tents, and that's a good thing since the forecast is for thunderstorms and rain both Friday and Saturday. I hope the weather doesn't spoil it for her. Wish us luck!
It's something she asked us to help her with, we didn't talk her into it.
We've worked with her on things to bring, and not bring, and have lent her our Tarptent Rainbow.
We'll drive north a couple hours and park where the AT crosses route 302 in New York and then hike 7 miles northbound to the RPH shelter.
We picked that route and destination because it's 7 miles with a few ups and downs but nothing crazy and there's almost always water available at the RPH shelter.
I'll be carrying our winter stove, an MSR Simmerlite and a pot large enough to make a simple dinner for 3. If that isn't enough for her pizza can be ordered, and delivered to, the shelter. Not only that, if there room the shelter has bunks and we won't need to use the tents, and that's a good thing since the forecast is for thunderstorms and rain both Friday and Saturday. I hope the weather doesn't spoil it for her. Wish us luck!