During my training for Wilderness Leader status in the Wilderness Progam at Saint Michael's College, my current and amazing residence, we hiked about 20 miles of the Long Trail divided up between two trips. The first trip was in late October, we hiked up Mount Laraway down to Butternut Saddle and camped off of Corliss Camp. It was spectacular, the day we saw the firey colors of autumn's last rush and then we woke up the next morning to a layer of fresh, white snow! The first day we did about 6-7miles, then hoofed it the next day about 8-9 miles across the many of Butternut Mntn.'s false summits and then into Devil's Gulch, which was full of pointy, sharp, soaked, frozen rocks tinged with moss. It was great, of course being the graceful one that
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