What remains in me for the Carter Moriah mountain range

Day 106-11 Miles today from the Osgood tent site, the Gorham Granero shelter to Impo Shelter, 4400 feet above, 2700 feet down, 1892 in Mile Marker

The presidentials eliminated me

The climb to Mount Washington, then through all the rock fields to Madison, and then even Osgood really eliminated me. My old injuries reappeared, including my ankle pain that I had just before Harpers Ferry. I also had some kind of strange nervous pain that began now in that same foot.

Many people hated that section of the path. A person told Knockerz that he has ended with the path and whites and is jumping.

Nero’s day

Knockerz has been staying at Barn Hostel in Gorham while traveling through the whites. Two days ago, I walked from Osgood to the way and Knockerz picked me up. The first stop went to McDonald’s, where I ate four breakfast sandwiches and lowered two large coffee cups.

I returned to the shelter and gave my first shower in a long time. I did my normal tasks of the shelter, including the drying of my entire team that was wet from the Mizpah camp a few days ago. Knockerz washed my clothes and made some trips to replenish.

The rest of the day I will lie in bed. I took a real nero basically a zero. I ate a lot of food.

I weighed and my weight has dropped in the 160s. I do not think it has weighed 160 since the high school. I hardly have body fat.

I will surprise to be able to eat everything and anything and not yet gain weight. I am sure that it is an adaptation that many hikers pass after their walk. At most sugar, fats, pizza, everything you want.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to eat many fresh fruits and vegetables, so I ate watermelon, strawberries, salads in addition to pizza, McDonald’s and anything else I could have in my hands.

Maine in the brain

Tomorrow I will have a day of 8 miles that leaves the Carter Moriah range, where Knockerz will pick me up and spend another day at the Barn Hostel before we leave and leave Gorham in the direction of Maine. At that time I will only be 16 miles from Maine and I will be on the 1900 mile score.

That will leave 282 miles to Katahdin. I know I’m going to enter some difficult mountains in southern Maine. I hope to be able to average approximately 15 miles per day, but I will have to do whatever it takes to continue north.

ATTITUDE CHANGE

The atmosphere in the shelters has changed since before on the walk. Sorry for the sobos who lost the fun and camaraderie of the first days in the walk when there was so much emotion among so many people. The multitude of sobo is definitely less social probably because they do not have the mass of hikers we had as nobles.

At this point on the walk, many of us, nobles, we are not taking zeros in the shelters. We have the end in sight.

It may be me, but shelters seem much less social. We seem to do our tasks and then we just want to enjoy resting, eating and enjoying Internet access. At 7 pm, the shelter is completely quiet. Previously on the walk, I remember that I was awake beyond midnight from the hiker and enjoyed sharing stories with other novo hikers. Part of this may also be that the multitude of Nobo has been reduced significantly. I know for me that I am running with a crowd totally different from the previous one.

Do it again

This morning I arrived at the path at 7:00 am in the direction of the Carter Mariah mountain range. My goal today is the Imp. There is a threat of rain around 3:00 tonight, so my goal is to get to the IMP shelter before the rain comes.

I continued confused this morning in Faraout, who kept telling me that I was heading south. After climbing to Carter, I noticed that the ascending sun was on my left. That would be this. So I headed south once again to go north on the path of the Apalaches.

Old lesions

This is my first full day on the way from the nightmare walk through the presidential ones. I think I have a bit of the PTSD of that last full day along the way.

I am at an age when I do not recover as quickly from the injuries as I only did it decade before.

My left knee is modified and reminds me periodically that it still has an old injury. My right foot is also damaged by all rocks. It has multiple old wounds that exploded very bad yesterday after the walk of the previous day.

At this moment I am taking my time and I am very meticulous and easy in the carter. I hope my body recovers its strength that I had only a few days before.

Carter dome

I stopped at the Carter cabin where there were two very beautiful ponds. It was a very cold cabin compared to the most traveled cabins before. I took a pumpkin chocolate sparks and filled my water bottles. I will have to carry my water to the shelter because there are no water sources in the next 8 miles of paths.

After leaving the cabin, the climb to Carter Dome was very steep. My body was so beaten a couple of days ago that this climb challenged me even more.

I saw my first snake. I have not seen snakes in a long time. He was not poisonous, but he had colors like a copper head and it was small.

There were many regulars and support points, but sometimes it was an escalation in the dome.

Zeta

At the top of the carter, the path was flattened a little. It was quite easy to walk for a while. I could see the path that is enrolled to the top of Mount Washington. Mount Washington had his own small crown of clouds at the top.

The path crossed the Zeta step before climbing South Carter Mountain. The last quarter of the South Court Carter Mountain was an steep ascent.

The path rose and went down the porteros with some technical climbs and descents until I reached North Carter Mountain.

North Carter Mountain Cliff

I knew it was going to be a very steep fall. It was a turn and a face on the rock mountain that climbs to North Carter Mountain.

The climb was very technical. It was one of the most difficult sections of whites. I kept my mantra that gave me right that helped me survive the other day «one step at the same time.» It was a very intimidating descent.

Finally, I went to the Imp. They had two chairs that looked at the undulating mountains beyond, so I ate there before going to sleep very early.

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