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Day: |
082 |
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Date: |
Wednesday, 23 July 1986 |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
23.2 |
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Daily Other Miles |
0 |
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Total
AT Miles: |
1595.8 |
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Total All Miles |
1642.4 |
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Weather: |
Very warm, sunny. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Muesli, health drink.
Lunch:
Biscuits and peanut, health bar.
Dinner: Macaroni cheese,
instant pudding. |
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Aches: |
Right little toe and right foot sore. |
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Animals Seen: |
Porcupine. |
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People Seen: |
4 overnight hikers, 5 day hikers, some
others. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
To give myself eight hours sleep, I waited
till 6am to get up then took longer than usual to leave because I
still had to repack my muesli and gorp. I left just before 8am and
set out on a beautiful day, even a little cool at the start. The
Trail was fairly easy walking and I made good time despite my right
little toe still hurting a lot and placing a lot of strain on my
right foot as a whole. There was a steep rocky descent from Harmon
Hill to VT 9 where I took my morning break next to a stream. As I
set out up the mountain on the other side, I met a little man with
paint brush and pail who was putting the blaze marks on trees for
the Trail. The climb was steady but, for some reason, I was in
better spirits today and it didn’t bother me and I still made good
progress despite limping. I had a late lunch at 3pm with only a
little over six miles to go to my target Shelter. It had warmed up,
but was still quite pleasant walking in the forest – I guess a bit
of altitude helped. At the top of Glastonbury Mountain (3750’), I
climbed the old fire tower which gave absolutely superb views in
every direction. Lots of mountains and the Green Mountains National
Forest. It was great. It was then a fairly rocky descent to Kid
Gore Shelter where I arrived at 6:50pm. Had it to myself. A
porcupine visited after dinner. Decided to sleep without the tent –
nowhere to pitch it – and hope the bugs aren’t too bad. Went to bed
at about 9pm. Not a bad day. |
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