Overnight on Green Mountain from 8.23-24 2025
ROAD: Loooooooong but the little Nissan Versa Note made it. The road isn't horrible, but the potholes were hard to see with the lighting I had, and some of them surprised me, as did some bumps getting on some concrete sections. Some sections of washboarding also rattled my bones.
No facilities at the trailhead.
TRAIL: The trail was overall in good shape and easy to follow. There were maybe two small fallen trees in the forest to step over. Some of the more open sections were getting brushy, but perks of a heatwave meant the brush was dry.
Berries abounded! Thimbleberries, huckleberries, blueberries...you could forage for hours. Chonky marmots frolicked and whistled in the meadows.
I set up my bivy on a flat patch of dirt just below the lookout, making sure to keep an eye on things when I was wandering around just in case a marmot decided to investigate my belongings. Thankfully they left me alone.
The sunset was pretty and there were two others up there for the evening show, but the sunrise was popping and I had the mountain to myself! I watched the fiery skies until they faded, before I packed up and headed down.
Glad to have done this for a quickie overnight, otherwise the drive time would have been way longer than the actual hiking time. 🙃
I carried all my water for the overnight (not a fan of filtering from stagnant ponds). 3L was way more than enough for me (I don't drink much) and I ended up dumping a bunch before my descent.
BUGS: There were a handful of mosquitoes at dawn and dusk, and there was a mass of flying ants of some kind around the lookout itself, but they didn't bite (but would land all over on you).
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