AT becomes fun again, the walk

98-14 miles today from Dorchester Road Stealth to 25a, 3900 feet up, 4100 feet down

House at night

The stealthy site was quite close to the parking lot of the path and the dirt road. I could listen to some land traffic and some people who went and left the parking lot. But all that stopped in the dark and I fell asleep very easily before dusk for the sound of the water running in the nearby stream. The area was very buggy, but I just set up my store and entered when it started to rain.

Tomorrow great

It’s a great morning, but I still feel wet everywhere. I feel that everything is wet. I didn’t realize how close I was from the whites until last night.

As it is a great morning, the insects that were really horrible yesterday when I set up my store, we are not outside yet, so I had the opportunity to stretch a little before starting.

I started at 7:00 am with a rise for Mountain Smarts 2200 feet of climbing to more than 3.6 miles.

The swamps

I have noticed many of these as swampy sink areas in the forest lately. I started seeing them in Vermont’s highest elevations. I have been seeing them again in this section of New Hampshire.

Most swamps had recently dried. I could see wet soils but not stagnant water. I can only imagine how horrible the mistakes will be when those things are filled.

According to someone with whom I talked yesterday, it has been a quite dry moment lately. Obviously, that has also affected water sources in the inconvenience, but on the positive side it probably has maintained insects at a lower level. Errors have been quite horrible in some areas. I have snacks of flies and mosquitoes and bees throughout my body, except where my backpack is on their backs. It only adds to fun!

Since we received some rain here yesterday while I am going up by Smarts Mountain, I can see that some of the swamps now have water and will probably raise insects.

Old

If possible, I try to prepare for my great climbs early in the morning. That is not always feasible due to logistics, but I wanted to press a few additional miles yesterday to reach the Mountain smart base. I am uploading the smart mountain in the old woman where you run along a beautiful stream. The same stream that had called me to sleep all night.

2/3 of the road along the blue route was a kind of shelter. He had an earth floor but seemed dry inside. He had a stream right next to him.

I guess I’m on the Ranger path. The Ranger path was the old man in. The last third of the path was a bit scrambled with rock, including some rock slabs that could see that they would be difficult if they were soaked, but today they were quite dry.

Reinforcement staircase

It was not long before the path crossed with the path of the Apalaches and continues a steep climb that includes a section of bar ladder that I have seen in videos and images.

The weather was a bit cold, especially at the top of the mountain. Finally I obtain the reception of the cell phone and I can take a transport service so that my goal is 14 miles to the truck.

When I approached the top of Smarts Mountain, the cold wind was blowing and the sun began to cross. The forest of firs around me perfume the wind like a Christmas tree.

Mountain smarts

There was a spectacular 360 ° view in the Tower of Fire. Unfortunately, much of the view was still covered by clouds. I was also blowing cold wind, so I decided to lower and eat my second breakfast at the base of the warm sun.

While I sat to eat my

Cond Breakfast Sobo Daddy Long Legs appeared. She had walked the PCT and now she was doing the AT.

The cold wind blew and I was trembling when I began to descend from the mountain.

The path was covered with weeds, but I was covered with fir trees that wet my legs while brushing the extremities of the humid tree. It was quite beautiful even though it was a jungle.

Alces nuggets

I started seeing lots of scat that looked like small acorns batteries. I confirmed that those are Moose nuggets. I have not been too annoying that I have not seen much bear, but I would like to see an alce.

The last time I saw an alce in nature was when we camped outside Denali in Alaska. I got on the bush to do my business when I looked up and I saw an up -to -see baby. When I saw Baby Fule, I knew that I needed to do my business very fast and start because that meant that Mama Moose was somewhere near.

Wonderful day

Today is a beautiful day, the cold, but the sun is available, it is still a bit wet for the rain yesterday. But it is a completely different day in the weather and yesterday’s field. I just saw a piece of birch bark peeled with illuminated next to the sun that was a great show to see.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV thank you in all circumstances; Because this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

Until now, today it has been a wonderful day. I was thinking about how the coupling of shit that had really put the bar at the low end. I am grateful for those days. Because when they hit, I just endured.

And then there is a new day. Yesterday was a little day that was miserable in velvet rocks just outside Hanover. With the mosquitoes I had to put inside my comforter with 15 degree bags that made me burn with sweat. I threw and turned around and slept like garbage.

Yesterday I just shouted by not really enjoying the walk. And then, at night, I put my store in an insect -infested area and quickly jumped with all my wet clothes. I hung my wet clothes that was worth anything because nothing dried overnight and heard the rain falling on the store. He reminded me of a similar day that I had a week or so, where s

These are days like those that establish the bar to thank me for days like today. I am, so I am also grateful for those bad days. I hope this is a lesson that can take with me in the real world.

Ancodes

It was a steep climb of a thousand feet per mile during the half mile from the small river gorge to the top of Eastman Ledges.

The Eastman climb up to the top of Mount Cube was a rock field for the most part. Fortunately, they were cairns to continue on some of the faces of the rock because the path disappeared.

The climb to Mount Cube was fun. It was many boulder and a little climbing. The path sometimes disappeared and I found myself lost a bit only once.

It was really interesting to see the change in the forest with the thicket pines in the upper part of Mount Cube and then go down to the road can see some non -fir trees again. Then I saw my alce before my truck to the welcome hikers.

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