New help planning Northeast Trip
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 2:24 am
I live in southern CT and am looking to take a 4 day/3 night backpacking trip. I've been doing a ton a trip planning and the more I look the more undecided I get!
Here are some of the things that I want out of this trip:
- some solitude - this is meant to be a reflection trip for me and I would prefer not saying hi to people every 30 minutes!
- backpacking/camping - I don't need to be at campsites and am fine stealth camping but would love to be somewhere where I can camp off trail
- access to water (maybe?)
- some level of difficulty - no rails to trails please
I've been looking and the three main areas I seem to be coming across:
1. Escarpment Trail - Catskills
2. Great Traverse Peaks
3. White Mountains, NH
Everything I read seems to indicate that the Peaks can be hiked in a day. This makes me wonder if it is worth making it a 4 day trip. Maybe I'm looking too narrowly but the sites that I have read seem to indication that most people seem to cover Lower/Upper Wolf, Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Haystack and Marcy in a day. Are there more peaks that I should look to include to make it a more worthwhile trip? If not, I can't figure out where to actually camp along this trip to make it great.
I have no clue where to start with the White Mountains. The Pemi seems to be incredibly popular.
I would love somewhere where I can hike hard day 1, camp near the trail, hike hard day 2 and get to an amazing spot where we can pitch up. Something with water/waterfall or amazing views.
Where would you go? Somewhere that I didn't mention?
I am looking to leave Thursday morning and would love and appreciate some feedback by then.
Thanks in advance everyone!
Here are some of the things that I want out of this trip:
- some solitude - this is meant to be a reflection trip for me and I would prefer not saying hi to people every 30 minutes!
- backpacking/camping - I don't need to be at campsites and am fine stealth camping but would love to be somewhere where I can camp off trail
- access to water (maybe?)
- some level of difficulty - no rails to trails please
I've been looking and the three main areas I seem to be coming across:
1. Escarpment Trail - Catskills
2. Great Traverse Peaks
3. White Mountains, NH
Everything I read seems to indicate that the Peaks can be hiked in a day. This makes me wonder if it is worth making it a 4 day trip. Maybe I'm looking too narrowly but the sites that I have read seem to indication that most people seem to cover Lower/Upper Wolf, Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Haystack and Marcy in a day. Are there more peaks that I should look to include to make it a more worthwhile trip? If not, I can't figure out where to actually camp along this trip to make it great.
I have no clue where to start with the White Mountains. The Pemi seems to be incredibly popular.
I would love somewhere where I can hike hard day 1, camp near the trail, hike hard day 2 and get to an amazing spot where we can pitch up. Something with water/waterfall or amazing views.
Where would you go? Somewhere that I didn't mention?
I am looking to leave Thursday morning and would love and appreciate some feedback by then.
Thanks in advance everyone!