High Gear and Farsight tolerated one more picture for the blog after we finished our hiking for the day. The AT crosses the Connecticut River, rises up the hill to lively Hanover, and crosses the picturesque Dartmouth College campus.
The Dartmouth Outing Club is an official trail maintenance organization and their volunteers dedicate a lot of time to maintaining many miles of the trail, and it's associated privies and shelters. Without volunteers, the Trail in most places would quickly disappear back under the forest duff, get engulfed by the quick moving undergrowth that covets the thin open sky where the trail has been cleared, or erode away in the next thunderstorm.
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