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| jtellis | bucklin  Date Climbed: May 19, 2009 | |
| nice hike on a perfect, quiet day. great views today--i'd never noticed before that from the peak you can see trails on ascutney, round top, okemo, magic, and stratton. only disappointment was seeing how trashed cooper lodge has become. | |
| Posted May 19, 2009 11:26 pm | ||
| mlandau3 | Last Of The Vermont 4,000 Footers Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2008 | |
| From the Inn At Long Trail (which now seems to be a misnomer). A little bit of hail and snow on the way up. The Killington Spur trail was very cool. | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2008 8:32 pm | ||
| Tahawus | Killington Peak Date Climbed: May 13, 2007 | |
| Climbed via the Bucklin Trail from Wheelerville Road. Tons of wildflowers in the valley down below. The trails were very muddy for most of the hike. Plenty of snow above 3500' to the summit. Not very many people out today. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2008 11:25 am | ||
| Patrick B | Skiing | |
| Took the lift to the top and skied down. Nice an easy, noting that I was only 7. | |
| Posted Jul 20, 2008 10:33 am | ||
| mmcguigan | Long Trail Date Climbed: Jul 5, 1989 | |
| Nice hike, great views. | |
| Posted May 5, 2008 4:18 pm | ||
| patssox09 | Bucklin Trail - Off Trail - Eventually the Upper Catwalk Ski Trail Date Climbed: Mar 15, 2008 | |
| Took the Bucklin Trail up. Snow was deep but perfect for snowshoeing, didn't posthole at all. Lost the trail and the blue blazes a few hundred feet from the summit. Wandered around through the snow trying to find the higher ground. Eventually ended up at the Cooper Lodge, where I took a trail assuming it was the spur. Instead it took me right into the ski area, where I went up the Heavenly Traverse and then the highest section of the Catwalk ski trail to gain the summit ridge. Catwalk section was steep and icey, I definitely put my new ice axe to some good use there. | |
| Posted Mar 17, 2008 5:00 pm | ||
| eric-griz | Great views Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2000 | |
| Spent the previous night at Cooper Lodge and hiked up to Killington Peak. Then on to the Inn at Long Trail. | |
| Posted Dec 1, 2007 4:54 pm | ||
| buzzdainer | Appalachian Trail Date Climbed: Jul 11, 1995 | |
| Trudged up from the Appalachian Trail junction. It was worth it. | ||
| Posted Oct 15, 2007 1:01 am | ||
| tioga | Last of VT's 4000'ers Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2007 | |
| This was the last of the five Vermont 4000+ foot peaks that I summited. However, it was the most disappointing. Not much up there. The views weren't even that good on the day I climbed because of the haze. I also spent $6 on a cup of coffee and brownie at the skiing restaurant. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2007 10:22 am | ||
| MoapaPk | Long Trail Date Climbed: Jun 24, 1974 | |
| We were heading south to north, actually on the AT, and this was a slight side spur. That was a great day, with clouds drifting close at hand. We sure met some bizarre characters on the AT. | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2007 4:19 pm | ||
| rasgoat | Great day! Date Climbed: Mar 24, 2007 | |
| Took Bucklin trail Good views | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2007 9:58 pm | ||
| The edge | Start of the 111NE Date Climbed: Jan 4, 2006 | |
| i was just back from a failed attempt on Cerro Aconcagua; My lungs were all at max VO2 | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2007 6:45 pm | ||
| jvarholak | february 1975 | |
| AT approach....icy, windy, fun | |
| Posted Feb 14, 2007 9:48 pm | ||
| Enapai | Route Climbed: Bucklin Trail to LT/AT to Spur Trail Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2007 | |
| First winter 4000 foot ascent. Good day. Little snow. Descent views. | |
| Posted Jan 12, 2007 7:38 pm | ||
| surgent | ski lift route Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2006 | |
| The weather was blustery and cool. Short hike to top. | |
| Posted Oct 19, 2006 8:30 pm | ||
| royswkr | Traverse from US-4 to Gov. Clement Date Climbed: Sep 22, 1966 | |
| Waiting for pickup, helped install sign for LtGov Snodgrass Memorial Gazebo | ||
| Posted Jul 10, 2006 10:33 pm | ||
| woodstrider | Killington Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2006 | |
| My last peak of the 4k left to do in Vermont. We stayd at Pico Camp with two AT thru-hikers. Breezy on top. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2006 8:26 pm | ||
| big_g | Route Climbed: AT/LT Date Climbed: 2000 and 2005 Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2005 | |
| Been up here twice, once with really good views. Maybe someday I'll actually ski it... | |
| Posted Nov 4, 2005 2:19 pm | ||
| Seth Maciejowski | Route Climbed: Juggernaut Trail Date Climbed: January 1999 | |
| We skied up the Juggernaut trail a bunch of years in a row. It's a nice trail to take the cross country skies up being not too steep. The summit block on killington is refreshingly absent of people since it is kind of hidden up and right of the top of the lift lines. The ski down is, naturally, amazing. | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2005 10:38 am | ||
| dobsonian | Route Climbed: Bucklin Trail->LT/AT->Peak Spur Date Climbed: September 20, 2005 | |
| Thought I might have to pass this up till my return trip to Burlington from NJ but the after some downpours in Albany and just outside Rutland I decided to check out the trail head and the showers seemed to have subsided. This was by far the quickest, easiest 4K' ascent in VT until the peak spur which gets somewhat vertical. Book time was 5 hours, I made it in 3:45 with about 5 minutes at the top in the clouds, barely able to see the TV and radio antennas in front of me. Managed to freak out an AT hiker in Cooper Shelter (the only other person I saw up there that day) when I was going to shoot a picture of the building and the door blew open to show him at a table right on the other side. Learned that my new trail runners are no match for wet rock and trashed a pair of Masters poles on the way down. At least I got all the 4000'+ done in VT this summer :-D | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2005 9:13 pm | ||
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