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Day: |
109 |
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Date: |
Tuesday, 19 August 1986. |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
23.4 |
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Daily Other Miles |
0 |
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Total
AT Miles: |
2091.8 |
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Total All Miles |
2149.8 |
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Weather: |
Mild, rain in the morning, overcast. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Muesli, health drink.
Lunch:
Biscuits and peanut butter, candy bars.
Dinner: Biscuits and
peanut butter, instant pudding, candy bars. |
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Aches: |
Crutch chafing. |
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Animals Seen: |
2 moose, pheasant. |
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People Seen: |
13 overnight hikers. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
Got up at 5am and left at 6:30am thinking
that, if I got a good run, I might make the 29 miles
to Potaywadjo Spring Shelter. There was a fine drizzle and fog as I
set off up the slippery Trail towards the summit of Whitecap
Mountain (3600’). A lot of wet undergrowth was overhanging the
Trail and I was soon soaked through. The going was very slow and it
took me 3½ hours of solid walking to reach Logan Brook Lean-To,
seven miles away, where I had my first break. There were no views
from the bleak summit of Whitecap Mountain. In the shelter
was Kacy (and boyfriend), the solo girl hiker I’d just missed
catching in the Green Mountains in Vermont. She had since skipped
New Hampshire! I pressed on down the mountain making slightly
better progress and took another break next to a pretty pond after
another 5½ miles. During the break, Jerry caught me. We’d said
good-bye this morning as he hadn’t been going to go as far as me
today, but had obviously changed his mind. We walked another three
miles along a boggy and sometimes hilly Trail through mossy forest
to a lake where we had lunch at about 2pm. We then walked on to the
very attractive Cooper Brook Falls Lean-To and were tempted to stay,
but I wanted to push on so as to be in a position to
reach Dacey Pond, at the base of Katahdin, by Thursday night. After
another five miles, we stopped in a damp, almost swampy, area near a
spring and set up our tents. Wet wood so I had another cold
dinner. Today was a bit of a trudge and I’m looking forward to
finishing. Went to bed at 8:15pm and updated my diary in the tent. |
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