Day 6 (108) Miles: 15.4 Mileage: 2,241.9 We slept in until 7 a.m., ate breakfast at the inn and caught our ride to town at 9. It started raining in the drive up to the trailhead, but we have the gear to hike in the rain with some semblance of comfort and certainly to sleep […]
Day 5 (107) Miles: 13.9 Mileage: 2,226.4 It was a chillier night and a chillier morning. I started today with my rain layer on as a vapor barrier. I kept it on until the first uphill. Occasionally the sun poked through the clouds but not often. Despite the clouds, I enjoyed the temperatures. It’s supposed […]
Day 4 (106) Miles: 21.6 Mileage: 2,212.5 After a colder-than-chilly night, we woke up in a fog. It took the sun a couple of hours to really start shining. I started the day with my gloves on and even though I took them off after the first 5 miles, it would have been nice to […]
Day 3 (105) Miles: 20.6 Mileage: 2,190.5 We started the morning before 7 a.m. with a big, long downhill to water. The air felt chilly but it didn’t take me long to start sweating, even on the downhill. The morning light trickled through the tall pines and made the forest glow green. At the creek […]
Day 2 (104) Miles: 21.6 Mileage: 2,169.9 It was a lovely chilly night. Not cold, but cool enough to put on a long sleeve layer and slip into my sleeping bag leaving it unzipped. We woke up around 6:30, having fallen asleep around 8:30 p.m. Traveling takes it out of you. Slowly, trying to remember […]
Day 1 (103; we left the trail last year after 102 days) Miles: 3.7 Mileage: 2,148.3 (This mile point is according to hiker Half Mile’s calculations and is the generally agreed upon mileage) Well, we’re back at it. After a lovely visit at our friend’s house in Bar Harbor, we flew back to our gear […]
Day 6 Miles: 81 Mileage from start: 480 It’s a good thing I was getting tired of all that sun and heat because it’s gone! We slept in at the hotel in Republic and didn’t get moving until after 10 a.m. The day dawned cloudy and over breakfast it started raining and thundering. Fortunately the […]
Day: 5 Miles: 84 Mileage from start: 399 When I was little, mom tells me, I had a very narrow threshold for temperature comfort. Most of the time I was either too hot or too cold. I haven’t really grown out of that but at least I’ve learned to like the cold and tolerate the […]
Day: 4 Miles: 100 Mileage from start: 314 We wanted an early start so we’d have a better chance of making it over the Rainy, Washington and Loup Loup passes. So when we started at 7:20 it was chilly. As we climbed higher, it was still warm enough to get soaked in sweat, but not […]
Day 3 Miles: 77 Mileage from start: 214 I woke up this morning hungry. That’s a first for this trip with many more to come, I assume. We ate bagels and eggs and coffee and yogurt and fruit. Then packed up and headed east. Part of our day was spent on Route 20. Going up […]