Shock and grief. Dave was amazing, a beautiful man, and the Green Mountain Club has lost one of the most gifted, generous, multi-talented superpeople ever to set foot on the Long Trail.
Dave was a GMC board member, along with his wife Lexi Shear he founded the Montpelier Section’s Young Adventurer’s Club, he served on various committees. He was the project manager for A Century in the Mountains, our centennial coffee table book. He was the artist who created the Long Trail poster. The watercolor images he painted during his end-to-end hike are the division headers in the Long Trail Guide. He was the creator of the beautiful relief map table in GMC's visitor center in Waterbury Center, Vermont. He edited the maps for recent editions of the Long Trail Guide. He designed the Traveling Displays which will be on display at libraries throughout the State of Vermont during the coming year as part of the Long Trail’s centennial… the list of Dave Blumenthal projects goes on… in a nutshell, he was a renaissance man. We have lost somebody who cannot be replaced. --Ben
Dave's Green Mountain Club legacy
Shock and grief. Dave was amazing, a beautiful man, and the Green Mountain Club has lost one of the most gifted, generous, multi-talented superpeople ever to set foot on the Long Trail.
Dave was a GMC board member, along with his wife Lexi Shear he founded the Montpelier Section’s Young Adventurer’s Club, he served on various committees. He was the project manager for A Century in the Mountains, our centennial coffee table book. He was the artist who created the Long Trail poster. The watercolor images he painted during his end-to-end hike are the division headers in the Long Trail Guide. He was the creator of the beautiful relief map table in GMC's visitor center in Waterbury Center, Vermont. He edited the maps for recent editions of the Long Trail Guide. He designed the Traveling Displays which will be on display at libraries throughout the State of Vermont during the coming year as part of the Long Trail’s centennial… the list of Dave Blumenthal projects goes on… in a nutshell, he was a renaissance man. We have lost somebody who cannot be replaced. --Ben