- Walking today: 25.4 miles
- APPALACHIAN TRAIL (1,655.4 – 1,680.8)
- Total walking: 3,613.5 miles
- Total rowing: 99.5 miles
Climate: 65-84 ° F, cloudy, wet, sunflowed
Elevation: 1,476 – 3,425 feet
Spruce Peak Refugio in White Rocks Disperso Site
The attention to breakfast stretch seemed to happen quickly today. Part of that was that I stopped a little before what I have been and part was that it was moving and a Groovin ‘. My store was wet packing, but everything else made the little storm last night dry. Elizabeth and Joshua, two on the hikers I met last night, moved and moved and gave myself a quiet and «happy paths», while walking to connect to the path.
It’s hard to do something with fog, but this is a skiing race. It was a «green» called Run-Around and the path rose directly to the top.
The terrain to start was a few miles to a large road followed by a 3,260 feet rise Bromley Mountain. On the way, I stopped to use the Deluxe and recently cleaned PRIVY near the shelter (thanks to the people of Green Mountain Club who take care of these facilities!) And get water.
Water was further from the path of what I like, but that is mainly because anything outside the road is more than I like 😉. I am a snob like that. In addition, it flowed clearly, cold and highly potable (during the early days Covid, my roommate and I started the wine tradition on Wednesday, where we would pretend to be sommeliers. I would write each of our opinions for the prominent wine of the night and, often, a very perceptual comment would be made, as «highly drinkable» 😅🤦).
In the upper part of Bromley, through the fog, a scene of a trolesilla, ski cabins, an observation tower and someone sitting in an adirondack chair developed. I called the chair that joked joking that I hoped they had their sunscreen. I was waiting for the ski scene and was waiting because it was rumored that one of the small «heatent» huts was open for hikers.
I heard that there were points of sale to load and that is something that needed badly. Indeed, all the news through the hiker Grapevine was true and I could connect my energy bank immediately. Then, I was able to chat with Tad, a hiker who had met in the middle of the path, in the store that houses the half -gallon ice cream challenge. He and his daughter have been walking together, but planned to leave today for a family reunion. It was nice to update and listen to some of their stories.
I was perhaps an hour and a half in the site of skiing. At one point, the sun tried to leave and climbed to the tower. It’s still a bit murky, but it’s good!
Walk again a little before 10:00 am with another great day of planned mileage. When I left Bromley, I thought it was supposed to be generally downhill to my tentative lunch place, (Andy) Griffith Lake. Things began and steep, but it turns out that there was another mountain, (Harry) Styles Peak, before the lake. Properties If you get both references because one could go, they are pointing to two different generational audiences haha.
Here are the photos of that next stretch of hiking …
Some muddy spots today, but are not yet as bad as I had anticipated based on Vermud’s reputation. I think I was lucky with a somewhat dry stretch that came.
The trees that grow on the rocks … never ceases to surprise.
Griffith Lake was beautiful and I joined stable and Whistler (I think that was his name) and crochet (or maybe it was croquet) to swim. I have to do better when remembering names. I followed Whistler’s leadership entering the water before falling. I tell you that Lake/Swimming River has been a game change in my AT experience. I immediately felt renewed and cooled. I dried while I filled my face with food.
Lake Griffith. My only photo of it, although the place where we jump was less weed and more rocky.
Trying to keep things in motion, I moved away from talking to others at 1:35 pm. I still had about 13 miles to go to my planned camp.
Even here, with the magnificent trees always up, I don’t stop and look up enough.
It is possible that he has collected in some of the photos today and in the last publications that the roots seem to be a common feature along the way. Yes. It must be a susceptible and fragile environment for erosion to expose the roots so common. Only the fact that the long path is so old also plays a factor.
Whatever the reason, they are quite frequent in Vermont and create the need for a reflective step. Or try to avoid them by interposing or rises to the top. At the end of the day, my feet hurt. That is one thing for my old shoes, the great Clunkers, were good … they had so much cushion and support that I did not feel the rocks and narrow roots in this way.
As always, I got tired in the afternoon. Crazy, right? But it was not a super demanding land, so I could continue walking.
Upon arriving at Little Rock Pond, I thought it could be my favorite place on the path of the Apalaches so far. He had the feeling of a remote alpine lake despite not being so high and the walk that came there is not too strenuous. I can’t confirm, but I’m quite sure I saw the first leaf of my trip, which is one of my favorite bird types. Absolutely the top -level place.
I still hoped to go a little further, but it would have been a great place to camp. However, there were several other hikers who also thought that and had already configured.
I filled Water from Homer Stone Brook and talked with Pope Bliss and happy there. And after that, I started looking for any viable scattered site with which I could find. I did not expect to find one until I reached a place labeled as «Rock Garden», but that was far ahead. A comment was made about the flat space for tents there. Fortunately, however, approximately one mile before, I saw a random opening out of the way. Without knowing if someone could have taken the place ahead, I decided to camp at 6:15 pm. Another good but exhausting day!
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