Tuesday, 8\/11<\/p>\n
AT Miles = 16.4 \/ 1805.7
\nOther Miles = 0.8 \/ 58.1
\nTotal Miles = 17.2 \/ 1863.8<\/p>\n
Miles to Katahdin = 372.6<\/p>\n
I had a nice night in North Woodstock, with a good dinner followed by
\na nice, filling breakfast this morning. After breakfast I positioned
\nmyself on Rt 112, the road back up to Kinsman Notch, and tried
\nhitching. After 40 unfruitful minutes, I gave up on hitchhiking and
\ncalled The Shuttle Connection. That 5 mile ride cost me $12.00, but it
\ngot me to the trailhead.<\/p>\n
It was a few minutes before 9:00 when I started hiking, and it took me
\n4 hours to hike the 7.5 miles to Eliza Brook Shelter. I stopped here
\nfor lunch, and met a couple out for an overnight heading south. We
\nchatted a bit about the climb up and over South and North Kinsman
\nwhich they had just done and which I was about to do. Just as they
\nleft the woman remarked to me “Well, at least the rocks will be dry.”
\nJinx! I packed up from lunch and started up the trail with the sun
\nshining. 5 minutes later I heard the crash and boom of thunder, and
\nthe skies opened up and poured on me. It was a biblical storm in the
\namount of rain that came down. The water was so deep in some of the
\nusually wet low spots that in one place the puncheon were actually
\nfloating. At least, they were until I stepped on it. Wet feet!<\/p>\n
I spent the next several hours climbing and clambering up steep, wet
\nrocks. It was not fun. My socks and boots were squishy wet. When I
\nfinally got to the summit of South Kinsman I stopped very briefly to
\ntake a few photos. The view was actually quite spectacular and the
\nstorm was clearing down below me, but I could still hear thunder so
\nwas scurrying up the trail as quickly as I could to get back down
\nbefore another storm came through.<\/p>\n
It was 4:00 by the time I got to Kinsman Pond Shelter. From here it is
\nonly 2 miles to Lonesome Lake Hut, my goal for the day. Pushing as
\nhard as I could, it was after 5:00 when I finally reached Lonesome
\nLake. I just don’t know how to figure the time it will take to hike
\nbetween any two points around here. So much of the trails here are not
\nreally hiking at all, but slowly climbing up and down rocks and huge
\nboulders.<\/p>\n
Back while I was eating lunch at Eliza Brook I had turned on my phone
\nto find a voice-mail from Dave Smith, telling me that if I wanted to
\nhike the few extra miles down to Franconia Notch he would meet me
\ntonight and bring me home for a shower, a steak dinner, and a bed.
\nThis was an irresistible offer after the soaking I had taken, so when
\nI got to Lonesome Lake Hut I wanted to call Dave and tell him I would
\ntake him up on his offer, but my cell phone had gotten wet in the
\nstorm and was not working. I borrowed a cell phone from one of the Hut
\nstaff and called Dave to arrange for him to pick me up at the
\ntrail-head parking area near The Flume in two hours, then pressed on.<\/p>\n
Whew! I made it down to the trail-head with about 20 minutes to spare.
\nI waited for Dave, then he showed up and whisked me off home for a hot
\nshower and a big steak dinner. Civilization is a wonderful thing!<\/p>\n
This was a tough day. 10 1\/2 hours to hike 17 miles! Back in Virginia
\n17 miles would have been a 7 hour hike. After Connecticut,
\nMassachusetts, and Vermont, I was just getting used to only being able
\nto cover 2 miles per hour rather the 2.5 I had gotten used to through
\nthe Mid-Atlantic states. Now it looks like I am going to have to start
\nfiguring 1.5 mph at best through the Whites. Ugh!<\/p>\n
— Tuesday, 8\/11 AT Miles = 16.4 \/ 1805.7 Other Miles = 0.8 \/ 58.1 Total Miles = 17.2 \/ 1863.8 Miles to Katahdin = 372.6 I had a nice night in North Woodstock, with a good dinner followed by a nice, filling breakfast this morning. After breakfast I positioned myself on Rt 112, the road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at_thru_hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nMonkeywrench
\nAllen F. Freeman
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