Two years after The Hike From Hell Sue Johnston, Al Sochard,
Bill Parlette, Doug Mayer and others decided to do the remaining
New England 4,000 footers in five days, a project they dubbed
"The Hike From Heck". At the time there were only twelve 4,000
footers recognized in Maine, as maps at the time showed both
Redington and Spaulding as being below 4,000 feet.  On the first
day they did all five of the Vermont Fours, taking about 26
hours including driving time. They split into two groups to do
Mounts Abraham and Ellen, starting from opposite ends and
swapping keys when they met.  Since Sue and two others have
recently done the Vermont Fours in winter in under 15 hours I
asked her about the time, and she replied: "Although I didn't
write down specific times, the VT 4's in 26 hours "door to door"
sounds about right. We weren't really hurrying, even stopping
for lunch in Waitsfield and dinner in Stowe. (On our recent
winter VT 4's trip, Bob, Jeffrey and I were going more for
time... although it could be done fa