31 or more moments of insomnia in Moosilauke 0.00

Ok, it wasn’t the best dream. Garmin coincided. Night hikers had taken me out of my beautiful midnight hikers and dawn.

But he had mountains to climb and I hope he does not fall. So I packed my store and headed for breakfast shelter.

Once the task of adding calories to the body was completed, I went along the path. And I mean down. An almost steep road almost followed the Bajelo Arroyo. The stream became a waterfall that I think speaks of the inclination he was experiencing.

There were occasional glimpses through the trees of the views that could have been obtained yesterday if the weather had not closed. I kept maneuvering my body for the precarious slope towards the bottom of Moosilauke, ready to say goodbye to the first of the white mountains. And then it became a little more steep.

So steep in fact that some wooden steps had been beaten in the stone slab to give the functionality of not needing a parachute to get out of the hill.

After about 90 minutes I arrived at the parking lot at the base of the mountain. I can definitely confirm that it is much easier to upload a mountain without a route than to descend.

The PDF plan

Now I was approaching the first day of a PDF plan that has been published in some places for a former hiker in the best means to cross the whites with a small budget. Whites have an execution cabin system, most of which are found in the AT. A bunk with dinner and breakfast varies in cost, starting around $ 140 per night in the middle of the week and exceeds $ 200 in an occupied weekend.

You can only imagine how probably do you take advantage of this service. Therefore, an ingenious hiker has mapped a path that implies stages of non -hut, and the use of only a handful of camps paid for a period of 12 days that sails it through whites for only $ 20 in total. My man (or woman). Thanks to the kind soul that created the plan, I am already anxious to adhere to him (especially).

Through hiker pass

Another weapon for excrement is the pass that the Apalachian Mountain Club (AMC) gives each hiker in the AT. This pass offers the discounts on the camps that allow the PDF plan of $ 20 to be executed, and allows a hiker to obtain two free baked products and a soup service (for all whites, not by cabin) while passing through the cabin system. It is a good advantage and not through hikers reject more food.

Then, the first day of the PDF plan began in my destination for today, Eliza Brook Shelter.

I started the climb to the aforementioned parking refuge, and this climb was much easier than the previous day. The main reason for its ease was that a real path was maintained in this section. Surprising the much easier that makes walking.

Although it was a significantly better path, it was still difficult, and the hours fell until I ran into the shelter around 12.30 pm

I was happy to have reached the camp, and I quickly set my store and hammock. I made lunch while I swing, and then I had a nap.

A few hikers arrived shortly after, including Will Rogers, whom he had met in Rutland and shared a helicopter pizza with the previous week. The 76 -year -old was in a good mood and was pushing the next mountain that afternoon.

Then Chestnut arrived and filled it in the Oatmeal operation.

Oat operation

One of the ways in which I find that I can motivate myself in a long walk is to create secondary missions and operations. They are largely ridiculous. Oatmeal Operation is a good example.

So let’s prepare the stage. The first cabin is ahead. There is only a small problem. There is a mountain on the road called Kinsmans (I suppose more than one mountain due to the pluralistic nature of the hill title). Now, if you buy the Fearmongering, this is another difficult climb and not one that is taken lightly.

So I take it lightly. I explain to Chestnut that leftover breakfast is perhaps a possibility after 8 in the morning in the first cabin we will reach tomorrow. I glug over the hill on our way, and I simply suggest that we get up at 4.30 am and go to the cabin for a refreshing breakfast. Upon arriving at 8 in the morning, I give myself the best statistical opportunity to arrive before other hikers and we can delight (or not).

Fortunately, Chestnut is as hungry as me and accepts this very solid operation.

Dinner

Knowing that the assault on the Kinsmans will take a caloric sacrifice, position at dinner, having a suggested instant potato puree and one side of Knorrs rice. This 1600 caloric dinner will undoubtedly be the secret of my success tomorrow while I run over the hill and demand my remaining breakfast victory.

I get out of my hammock and enter my store at 6.30 pm, exhausted for the last days and equally excited in the morning that awaits you.

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