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Long Trail Day 21

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15 Miles (252 Total) Corliss Camp to Tillerson Camp I slept very well last night. Almost too well. I fell asleep at 7 PM and woke up at midnight to a large animal fumbling through the woods. It was most likely a deer. It didn’t sound large enough to be a bear. They are usually […]

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Long Trail Day 21

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15 Miles (252 Total) Corliss Camp to Tillerson Camp I slept very well last night. Almost too well. I fell asleep at 7 PM and woke up at midnight to a large animal fumbling through the woods. It was most likely a deer. It didn’t sound large enough to be a bear. They are usually

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Long Trail Day 20

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15 Miles (237 Total) Bear Hollow Shelter to Corliss Camp The trail gave us 4 easy miles this morning on a logging road and rail trail. It was nice to just walk and not worry about killing your self tripping over a jagged rock or wet root. The mosquitoes were out in force, which required

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Long Trail Day 19

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10 Miles (222 Total) Smugglers Notch to Bear Hallow Shelter We had a lazy morning drinking coffee and cooking breakfast. It’s great to have your own kitchen when on trail. You can buy lots of food at the store and have yourself a grand feast. This morning it was scrambled eggs with tomato and avocado,

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Long Trail Day 18

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12 Miles (211 Total) Puffer Shelter to Smugglers Notch Short on time to write and tired after a long but good day. Here is the picture summary: 

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Long Trail Day 17

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15 Miles (199 Total) Bamforth Ridge Shelter to Puffer Shelter It was an easier day than yesterday but it was still challenging. We walked the remaining 3 miles down to the Camels Hump Trail Head and the start of a road walk along Duxbury road. The large Wanooski river was to our right. It was

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Long Trail Day 16

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13 Miles (184 Total) Birch Glen Lodge to Bamforth Ridge Shelter What a day! Mud. Boulders. Ladders. Slick rocks. Ropes. You name it, we did it, or fell trying to. It was a really hard day and took us nearly 11 hours to traverse only 13 miles. We summited three peaks, Burnt Rock, mount Glen

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Long Trail Day 15

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3 Miles (171 Total) Appalachian Gap to Birch Glen Lodge We had a good nights rest in a completely temperature controlled and dry environment. The Inn served us breakfast of French toast and ham, and even allowed us seconds. There was good coffee out too, and the owner, John, gave us a lift after breakfast

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Long Trail: Day 14

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10 miles (168 Total) Batelle Shelter to Appalachian Gap It rained 3 inches last night. I wish I was exaggerating. Or at the very least joking. But sadly I am not. The rain pummeled the small shelter all night long, for nearly 12 hours straight. I’ve never witnessed so much heavy rain while hiking before.

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Long Trail: Day 13

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14 miles (158 Total) Skylight Lodge to Batelle Shelter I woke up just in time to see a great sunrise over the pond. “Carolyn, there’s a great sunrise outside,” I whispered. “You should get up and see it.” “Erm..I’m going to just sleep.” She said, rolling back over.  I went down by the pond to

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