Planned to head up to New Hampshire to hike this weekend to a couple possible different locations. Got a call from my buddy who wanted to come with. We decided on hitting Mt Garfield for the weekend. We headed up the Gale River Trail (which I think I refer to multiple times as the Galehead Trail within the video), then met up with the Appalachian Trail or the Garfield Ledge Trail. Stopped and stayed at the very busy Garfield Shelter and Tent site that was filled with AT hikers, Pemi Loopers, and the likes of us. Hit Mt Garfield the next morning and then went back out the Garfield Trail and road walked back to the car.
This was probably my favorite trip so far this year. I was able to chat to a bunch of NOBO AT hikers on trail and talked to two sisters heading Nobo for probably a good hour while eating at the camp site. Also, through 100% sheer coincidence, it turned out that 5 years ago, exactly to the day, was the day that we had stayed at this shelter while I was out on the Appalachian Trail. We even pulled up the old pics to check the date and suffice to say our minds were blown.
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