Monthly Archives: June 2015

We got up a bit early today, hiking before 7, in order to catch the “ferry” at 9, 6 miles down the trail.  It turns out that the ferry is just a guy named Hillbilly Dan and his canoe.  We … Continue reading →

We climbed a pretty real mountain this morning, Moxie Bald. Once we were in top we had a long break just watching the forested hills around us.  No bugs, nice temperature, very unusual for the AT so far 🙂 Next … Continue reading →

We decided to head out in the morning after doing some grocery shopping, and listening to one last jam session by all the musically talented hikers. The trail was smooth for about 12 miles, then we had two deep river … Continue reading →

Giant thunderstorms in the night but we had the tent set up right this time and weathered it easily.  The morning dawned sunny though and we slowly got ourselves together.  The only thing we had forgotten to do was Megan … Continue reading →

We finally climbed another mountain!  Whitecap was nice right out of bed, a good way to wake up.  Our first night in a shelter was pretty solid too, no bugs and everyone went to bed early.  I woke up early … Continue reading →

Another semi disastrous night of rain and crazy condensation led to us being fairly wet.  Combine that with rain much of the day and we were finally interested in trying out a shelter for camping. We hiked through more very … Continue reading →

Rain this morning and lots of it!  We met Vocal, who I had seen in the logbook a couple days ago – turns out he was just down the beach from us last night. After spending all morning trudging in … Continue reading →

We finally had a solid night’s sleep!   The actual hiking this morning was beside a series of pretty little lakes in a fairly flat trail. The actual trail tread reminded me a bit of the Juan de Fuca trail back … Continue reading →

Our first full day on the trail started with a big rain storm overnight that bounced drops off the ground a foot up the mesh of our tent and got us a bit wet and sandy. Fortunately the day dawned sunny … Continue reading →