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My partner's place of employment has a fiscal year ending June 30th and a use-it-or-lose-it vacation policy. We are hikers who live in the northeastern United S
by mauvehaus 1mo ago
My partner's place of employment has a fiscal year ending June 30th and a use-it-or-lose-it vacation policy. We are hikers who live in the northeastern United States, which means we're inevitably planning a backpacking trip to use up her remaining vacation at the height of black fly[0] season.
We did a three week thru-hike of the Long Trail in 2022. We had shelters almost entirely to ourselves north of the AT/LT split at the Inn[1] because nobody hikes the LT in June/July if they can avoid it.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly
[1] https://innatlongtrail.com/ https://innatlongtrail.com/
- goodmythical 1mo agoDoes the policy somehow preclude you from using the remaining days before the beginning of June or end of May? Seems easy enough to dodge if it's not the case that the relative privacy outweighs the flys.
- nemomarx 1mo agoI think people save them up towards the end of whatever year just because you aren't sure if you're going to need them for medical leave or a sudden family trip or something. As you get close to the end you get more certain that you won't use them on something else and can plan a block trip
- mauvehaus 1mo agoBefore the beginning of June is mud season, and the Green Mountain Club asks people to stay off the trails to protect them. Before mud season, it's winter, which is an altogether different adventure entirely. https://greenmountainclub.org/hike/plan-and-prepare/get-started/mud-season/ https://greenmountainclub.org/hike/plan-and-prepare/get-star...