Friday, July 8, 2016
220 Mile Update
Syd and I are doing great. 220 miles into this. Food is great out here (Syd is genius)! Weather awesome (even though raining now). Zero blisters, minimal equipment failure and great people. The trail provides is a theme repeated day after day. Beer in towns or provide on the trail by magic are the best ever. We even had Lobsta pie in the middle of the 100 mile wilderness. Great stuff. A few hundred more miles and we'll have this camping thing dialed in. A few thousand more and I might even like rice cakes (ugg-throw me off the mountain). Still, limited cell but once in a while...
It isn't the mountains ahead that will wear you dow, it's the pebbles in your shoes...
Yep shoes failed. I will pick up a new set here in town today. Barb shipped for yesterday arrival. I just found out that I could have called Vasque directly and they would have shipped me boots. 
Don't do that...
If I put the 3 dots in the subject, it is a rule we live by out here. Sometimes rules wil be in rules. Such as: watch out for the wobblers-followed by: don't do that (when you proceed to step on a rock or log that isn't set and you have an incident. Fall, roll of ankle or knee or a good ol' fashion stick in the head. Don't do that.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Saturday, July 2, 2016
First 150
1. 5.2 Katahdin stream 5.2/day
a. The falls
b. The Gateway Bars
c. Wind
d. Brian and Megan
2. 15.1 Abol bridge 9.9-7.55/day
a. Side Trails
b. The first ford
c. Meeting trail family
d. Joe
e. Vic
f. Jayson
g. Ricky
h. Abol camp
i. Swim
j. Cold hammock
k. Moose
l. The girls
m. First trail magic 3-Pabst
n. Dan - Ox doing it for his men
3. 26.3 Rainbow Lake camp 11.2-8.76/day
a. Last campsite up hill
b. Next to Driftwood
c. Swim
d. Catching 6 Brookies
e. Talking w/Rcky by water
4. 38.6 Side trail to Sandy Beach on Nahmakanta lake 12.3-9.24/day
a. Inside knowledge from Jaymie gave us the primo lakeside spot
b. Hummingbird on Syd's shoes
c. Swim
5. 51.8 antlers 6/20 13.2- 10.1/day
a. First cast smalley
b. Bigger smalley for great dinner
c. The point
d. Father's Day
e. Full moon
6. 59.7 cooper brook falls 6/21 7.9-9.9/day
7. 71.4 Logan Brook Lean-to 6/22 11.7-10.2
8. 78.6 Carl Newhall 6/23 7.2-9.97/day
9. 88.5 E Chairback pond 9.9-9.73/day
a. Swim
b. .4 to down to remote campsite
c. The little trout eating the eggs
10. 95.4 Cloudpond 7.9 -9.54/day
a. Swim
b. Losing shorts then finding
c. Grampa goes
11. 105 Big Wilson Stream 9.6 9.5/day
a. Trail Magic this day
b. 2 beers for Vic and Joe
12. 114.5 Monson 6/27 9.5 -9.
a. Shaws
b. Poet
c. Hippy chick
d. Marbles
e. cucumber
13. 114.5 Monson 6/28 0-
a. Syd's birthday
b. Zero
c. Dinner at the lake in Greenville
d. Morning coffee with Ricky
e. Lunch at the inn
f. Where's the order?
14. 126.5 West branch Piscataway River 12 miles
a. First rainy day hike
b. Deploy umbrella
c. Joes birthday
d. Someores
15. 136.5 Bald Mt Brook Lean to 10-9.51/day
a. Sunny again
b. Andrews water shoe points the way
c. Canadiens on top
d. Swimming in the cave
16. 151.2 Caratunk
a. Kennebec River Brewery
b. Bed and Breakfast
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