Mt. Seymour (36)

Last year, we'd attempted to climb Seymour on day 2 of an overnight outing, after doing the 3 peaks of the Seward range on day 1, but day 2 was pouring rain, so we cancelled. Now we were back, but because we knew there was a lean-to conveniently located near the base of Seymour, we made this an overnight outing too. But first we checked out the Wild Center, in nearby Tupper Lake.

We got to the trailhead in mid-afternoon and spent two hours hiking in the mostly level 6-mile trail to the Ward Brook lean-to.

The weather was nice and we were in no rush at that point, so we relaxed, made dinner and, of course, went to bed early.

We did have to be home before dinnertime the next day, so we got up before 5:00 to have some breakfast and hit the trail. A nice thing about having the lean-to to come back to on the way out is that  I could leave most of my stuff there and just take a day pack up the mountain.