More Marvels de Maine: Baldpate and beyond (ECT 197)

• Hiked today: 19.2 miles

  • APPALACHIAN TRAIL (1,933.4 – 1,952.6)

• Total walking: 3,885.8 miles
• Total rowing: 99.5 miles

Climate: 60-80 ° F, cloudy in the AM, became sunny, little hacking, very humid

Elevation: 1,093 – 3,790 feet

Baldpate Led-To Blue Blue Dispersion Site

The morning section between when I started walking until I took my rest in Dunn Cascades felt that I had three different parts. The first one was the area around Baldpate West and East Peaks. Yesterday, the last 2 miles had been walking towards Baldpate and the first hour of this morning, the path continued to the top. Immediately, the degree was picked up and was slow. However, once up there, I really liked it!

The rock bed here was a bit ever and reminded me of the granite in Yosemite National Park. Last summer, I lived in the high -lifting part of the park, Tuolumne Meadows. As often as I could, it was hard for me to choose a dome or peak in sight and try to reach the top. Often there would be no trace, only on the route to find the rock. This felt similar, but I had wipes guiding me.

The second part of the morning was up and down of steep parts. Where, while I was super pumped for the things of the morning, I was not so interested in this. It was covered with areas and made the roots erode everywhere.

Maybe you have heard of the acronym could? It means «meaningless ups and downs.» You will be surprised to hear me say that I do not feel that the AT is full of these, as many often suggest. Most of the time I feel that there is a view at the top, what is worth promoting or the land simply does so, so there is no other way of climbing and again.

However, there was one here that frustrated me. There was no view at the top and apparently there is no need to climb the eroded path to go down again. I felt that this would be a great place for a redisee to have the path to traverse stays around the same elevation or with a slight increase. See…

The last part of the morning was through the lowest elevations where the canopy of the trees grew again to high heights. The path was full of dead brown leaves and orange brown. The most important thing is that it was a relatively good path and could make a good rhythm. A few days ago I think I used the term «almost in operation.» And I was also doing that here.

Why go so fast? Well, there is no good reason, but I had looked at Dunn Falls as a resting place and I got it in my head to shoot for an arrival of 9:30 am. Being fast, I succeeded, but I was very ready to sit. I dropped right at the top of one of the waterfalls. Eventually, I got up and explored some, but I wasn’t upstream to see Upper Falls. It is wild how fast an hour can happen for a break.

The landscape between breakfast and lunch did not stand out. However, it was a good forest and nice to walk for the most part.

What stood out was that for Wyman Mountain, the path was quite gradual and pleasant! I set the target of the top for lunch and everything was going to plan until I appeared the top without even realizing. There had been a surveillance view before the summit, but then no sign or anything to mark it.

It was a thick vegetation here, it is not excellent for a place to rest, so I moved on. It was then that I was hungry. And the path that went down the other side of Wyman stamping. The inclination was not so much, but the path was covered with weeds and a strange «s» style where it was woven directly to turn down and then repeat. Very annoying. My Hangryness culminated in me hitting my left pimp in a rock and shouting my anguish to the universe.

I arrived at Hall Mountain inclined, where there was finally a space to sit and lunch. I have needed to ration my food this stretch. With the inclination and hard terrain, I have been trying to make the line of having the fair amount of food to be as light as possible, but I think it was a little supplied in this round. I have been quite voracious feeling that I could eat all the food all the time. However, I don’t want you to worry, I have enough, but I look forward to the next grocery store to add a little UMPH to the menu for the next section.

Although I had eaten most of my snacks assigned for the day, I was not in that serious line. He had crushed him during the first half of the day and, therefore, had fewer miles than the afternoon for the afternoon (the tensioned he was looking at). However, I ended up obtaining two of the three steep climbs of the day near the end. That was not super great, but the weather was pleasant and I didn’t feel hurried, so it was fine. I just took my time for the revolts.

Look closely at the horizon. Only through the mist, you can see a line of wind turbines.

I ended up going a little beyond my original goal, so bonus there. And I arrived at the camp at 5:30 pm with a long time to configure, eat, tie my food at a branch and hang out. Today he felt a little less strenuous than the previous two days. I hope the trend continues, even if I don’t have that haha.

Ramen bomb with bacon bits tonight. Very gourmet. Maybe you are wondering what the pink tape is for? I tend to lose spoons. Probably what I have lost to the fullest in my more than 9,000 miles of backpack. So, the bright colored tape is to help it stand out and not fall behind

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