Day 74 – The Mahoosuc Notch
Today I hiked the single hardest mile of this trail but I would not call it walking. In the late morning I arrived at the coveted, feared...
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Day 73 – Rain in Maine
I’m done…walking into new states. The next 6000 miles of hiking I will do this year will all be in states I have already been to. Maine...
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Day 73 – Where is Momma Bear
Every mountain I climb I withheld the primal need to yell, scream or release my ecstasy because I have become so used to training myself...
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Day 72 – Fiasco and the Presidents
The day began with the Coffee fiasco. On my previous long thru hikes I have given up coffee but on this one I took it back up after the...
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Day 71 – Mountaineering
The hiking today became a lot more than hiking. I climbed up and down multiple 4 and 5 thousand foot peaks with many of the north facing...
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Day 70 – Frozen
Today has some of everything. I am camped in the snow laying on a pad that is too thin and feeling the snow beneath me in the the heart...
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Day 69 – Ice Ice baby
Today there was ice. Not just a small section of ice but sheets strewn across the trail that resembled the Arctic. It was like I was...
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Day 68 – New Hampshire
Pitter, patter, pitter, patter… I woke up and stayed awake to the continual sound of rain on the abandoned shelter I was staying in. I...
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Day 67 – Blueberry Pancakes
Waking up in a real bed in a warm hotel room was nice in many ways. I was able to take another shower, my water wasn’t frozen, and my...
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Day 66 – Top of Vermont
Another morning of weather so cold it hurts to move. It is hard to put in perspective but imagine a morning so cold that after getting...
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Day 65 – The Green Mountains
Waking up in a shelter that was more of a cabin was quite a luxury. It was very rugged but due to the 4 walls and the wood stove it made...
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Day 64 – the bitter cold
I woke up at 6 in the bitter cold, which seems to be a theme, and rolled over only to see a white blanket laying on the ground. Looks...
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Day 63 – one dry shirt
We woke up and were on the trail at a decent time climbing up into the green mountains of Vermont. The trail was slushy and soon my shoes...
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Day 62 – Nearing Vermont
Massachusetts has not been my state. I have been sick in it, caught in a spring snowstorm, seen temperatures drop to the single digits...
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Day 61 – Recovery in Dalton, MA
Massachusetts has been hit with a storm that has brought 8-12 inches of snow, single digit temperatures and piercing winds. I am making...
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Day 60 – the turn
Waking up, I just hoped it would be a more successful day. I had snow to navigate and also undesirable symptoms. The first step was to...
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Day 59
The sickness of last night turned out not to be a one time thing. Nor did Mother Nature exude any sympathy upon me. When I woke up in my...
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Day 58 – the flu
We woke up in Riga shelter to dreary weather. The wind was howling and the fog was settling in to the mountains. Ahead of us were...
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Day 57 – The gateway to New England
At one point today we came out onto the road for a .5 mile road walk. We saw a mechanic shop with a soda machine out front and were...
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Day 56 – Company in Connecticut
It was very refreshing to have someone to hike with after so many miles in solitude. I had now truly reached the front of the heard of...
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