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Day 7

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

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Day 6

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

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Day 5

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

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Day 4 – Cache Wanking

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

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Day 3

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

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Day 2 – Below Rainbow Ledges

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

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Day 1 – Mt Katadhin

We finally got to the start of the trail!  Another early day but we finally arrived in Baxter State Park by 8am and started up Mt Katadhin.   Because the start was up top we were able to leave our packs … Continue reading

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Day 0

We made it to Maine!  Still haven’t gotten to the start of the trail yet but that’ll happen first thing tomorrow morning. Today has been a long exhausting day of travel.  Neither of us slept well during our red eye … Continue reading

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3….2….1….. ?

Time has ticked down, massive TODO lists are mostly checked off. Time to hit the road! We leave today via ferry, then a red-eye flight to NYC, change airports and then off to Bangor, Maine tomorrow morning. We have a … Continue reading

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Concerns before we leave

We’ve been kicking around the idea of hiking the Appalachian Trail since the fall. Megan got a job that ends in May, and and it seemed awfully convenient to leave as soon as she was done with that, so we … Continue reading

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