HIKING THE NORTHVILLE PLACID TRAIL - 138 MILES OF RUGGED WILDERNESS

[@franjescaj]

Oh my gosh as if i didnt love this video enough as it was you had me at 25:53 when you started singing Big Rock Candy Mountain!!! 😊 My mom used to always sing that to us when we were little! 💕 Made me smile big. Another fantastic video!!!! 🙂

[@jakemosca6587]

This is lovely! Thanks for this comment ❤

[@franjescaj]

@@jakemosca6587 thank you for this video! You brought so much joy to my heart 🥰

[@franjescaj]

@@jakemosca6587 youre very welcome ☺

[@ke9tv]

Thanks for the memories! I thru-hiked it solo in 2015. One of the best vacations I ever had! I wore a hat with Tred-Not patches on it. Never got one deer fly bite. But some evenings the patches were totally covered with buzzing deerflies, stuck in the flypaper. My wife and daughter were totally grossed out when I met them with my hat buzzing furiously! For me it was Schadenfreude: come after _my_ blood, will you? Hah! My impression of the NPT: Fairly easy terrain, but _remote_! Hundred-Mile WIlderness-.level remote. You're sometimes twenty miles from a road that you can drive on. There were entire days that I didn't meet anyone, and I could always have had a shelter to myself. But for the most part I preferred to tent. I used the shelters at Ouluska Pass, Rodney Point, Stephens Pond, and Spruce Lake #3, but tented all the other nights. That was a bunch of nights, because I planned on going slow. I discovered that I can go faster on the NPT than I can in the Catskills - I planned 8-10 mile days but found that 12-15 was more comfortable. My thru-hike turned into a three-section hike because I had to take time off - Section 1 - I fell in the river near Wanika Falls in 35° weather, and woke up a day and a half later with horrible bronchitis. I wheezed my way to Long Lake and got off trail. Section 2 - I sprained a knee about a mile north of Spruce Lake. The trip to Piseco on a sprained knee was an ordeal! I had to take six weeks off while it healed. I ran into a lot of beaver activity in completely different places from where you hit it. The Piseco trail angel wasn´t there yet in 2015. My supply box was left with the airport manager. (I picked it up, but needed to take time off). The Sacandaga Park section wasn't quite finished when I hiked, so the trail ended near the Benson town hall (You didn't have to do the rest of the road walk into Northville.) I went back a few months later to hike the new section and see the Northville arch, about a week after it went up. I was glad that the West Stony Creek ford was at epic low water! Try the Catskill section of the Long Path next! A hundred miles of world-class hiking! Allow extra time for all the rock scrambling, because there's a lot of it.

[@jakemosca6587]

Thanks so much! I’m planning to do a thru hike of the Catskills with Stakes from this video sometime! Thank u so much for this comment.

[@cremscheid]

i live in Northville and my brother has done the trip, well you made my day. funny story , cause that's what i do is tell funny stories. when he got to lp he called and said i made it come get me, i said got work today, head back in the woods i will see you tomorrow. Great video

[@jakemosca6587]

Thank you very much!!! Means alot

[@samfairchild2446]

This is the most fun anyone can have watching an NPT video. Love to see thru hiker trash culture in the Adirondacks! 18:11 is exactly what I always say when I hear a loon

[@jakemosca6587]

Lmao I might have to get it tattooed! Or maybe an abbreviation F.M.A.I.L.L.

[@MarthaTownley]

You guys are totally amazing to endure such crazy conditions! Great video! You were our trail angel in NJ Marti,

[@jakemosca6587]

Hey you! Thanks for the comment! Sorry for the late response. Hope you’re doing well!

[@j.j2566]

this video is so well done ! super enjoyed watching it thanks for sharing

[@jakemosca6587]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@UnboundCrow]

Great video! Really enjoyed watching it.

[@carole3995]

Great video seeing you in your natural form and the music was beautifully executed. I started getting itchy😅

[@jakemosca6587]

SO MANY BUGS!! Lol

[@Snitchols]

Springbrook distillery has fantastic bourbon. BTW, I love how this video was put together.

[@jakemosca6587]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!

[@brianmccormack84]

Leaving on the 7th hopefully it's not so buggy as you guys experienced. Lifelong backpacker since I can remember. Retired now and this will be the beginning of my long trax. Thank you for the video❤

[@jakemosca6587]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching & best of luck. Let me know how it goes!

[@brianmccormack84]

Not leaving till the 9th but for a great reason I have a friend of 40 years coming with me he's like an awesome Yogi vegetarian really cool guy an awesome hiker really fit

[@LeoCastcom]

Just finished a solo SoBo thru hike on July 27. You guys must’ve been a few days ahead (pretty sure you referred to the tornado blowdown just south of Piseco). Enjoyed watching your journey and remembering my own. A tip for black flies - a wonderful gentlemen gave me some fly strips for the back of my hat. Very satisfying to hear the buzzing stop and flip the hat around to see the growing collection of flies. Cheers

[@ConsumeTheDark]

35:21 are those frog toggs?

[@jakemosca6587]

Yes lol what’s left of them

[@ConsumeTheDark]

@@jakemosca6587those were the like $20 set from Amazon right? I had the same set for my bike trips. Lasted as long as it took to get dressed till I went to saddle my bike then the pants ripped from belly button to butthole and the jacket lasted maybe 15 minute of riding before it started peeling apart like a banana 😂

[@carlotrentacoste9330]

❤

[@collinzeman1964]

What was that first lean-to?