{"id":4119,"date":"2018-10-11T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2018-10-24T00:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:50:42","slug":"sht-days-7-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"SHT: Days 7-9"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Start<\/strong>:\u00a0 Silver Bay (Penn Blvd.)
\nEnd<\/strong>:\u00a0 East Branch Baptism River Campsite
\nDay 7-9 mileage<\/strong>:\u00a0 33.4 miles
\nTotal mileage<\/strong>:\u00a0 128.1 miles\n

We decided to take a \u201czero\u201d day and the morning was spent touring the grounds of the Split Rock Lighthouse which we saw from afar the day before.\u00a0 It was beautiful and the caretaker\u2019s home was perfectly preserved.<\/p>\n

Split Rock Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
We dropped off my resupply boxes at Lutsen Mountain (where we saw spectacular fall color) and Grand Marais before dropping my car off at the northern terminus of the SHT.\u00a0 We spent the late afternoon strolling around Grand Marais, where we saw another lighthouse and had a great dinner at the Bluewater Cafe.<\/p>\n
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Grand Marais Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Doing the tourist thing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I had a homemade veggie burger and didn\u2019t realize I missed beans so much!\u00a0 Tomorrow Domonick drops me off at Silver Bay for me to finish the remaining 160 miles of trail, alone.\u00a0 I am still nervous about camping alone, but this is a fear I am determined to overcome.\u00a0 It may take time, but hopefully by the end of the trail, being alone (sleeping, specifically) in the wilderness will feel more natural.<\/p>\n
Domonick dropped me off at the Penn Blvd. Trailhead in Silver Bay and I was hiking a little before 9am.\u00a0 What I didn\u2019t say to Domonick was that I was holding back tears.\u00a0 I had this incredible urge to cry for some reason.\u00a0 Maybe it was nerves, maybe I felt the pressure of embarking out on my own.\u00a0 [I revealed this to Domonick after the hike was all over, and he said he didn\u2019t feel like crying, but he was nervous about me, \u201cShe knows what she\u2019s doing, right?\u201d]\n<\/p>
I was shocked, within the first 2 hours of hiking, I saw about 20 people on the trail.\u00a0 All day, I think I saw over 30 backpackers and countless day hikers.\u00a0 It was Sunday after all, but this was way more people than we had seen up until that point. It was foggy most of the day and the trail kept bringing me to peaks (Mt. Trudee, for example) from which I saw nothing.\u00a0 The trail went through Tettegouche State Park which was spectacular, with the Baptism River running through it.\u00a0 The trail goes by High Falls which was amazing and is the highest waterfall completely in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
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Baptism River High Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I met a group of five hikers going North and found out they were camping at a site 0.1 miles from me.\u00a0 My worries went from spending the night alone to there not being enough sites for everyone.\u00a0 I hurried along and the fog began to lift.\u00a0 The sun began to blast a muggy and fierce heat and my shirt got instant \u201chiker funk\u201d.\u00a0 I was greeted with a view of Johnson Lake where I saw a couple canoes.<\/p>\n
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Johnson Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Canoe is to Minnesota as kayak is to the UP (at least in my observations).\u00a0 Turns out the group of 5 was able to fit at their campsite, and a solo guy camped at my site too.\u00a0 I felt better having someone nearby that night.<\/p>\n
The morning afforded some steep hiking to Sawmill Dome and Section 13.\u00a0 The best fall colors yet!<\/p>\n
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View from Sawmill Dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The rest of the evening had fairly flat terrain.\u00a0 Around 5pm, I ran into a guy going south.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t sound like he was going very far.\u00a0 I had already put in 18 miles that day. I told him I was camping a couple miles down, as I was trying to get to Lutsen by Thursday morning as heavy rain was forecasted and I wanted to spend the day sitting in their ski lodge or get a room.\u00a0 He warned me about the upcoming section in Crosby-Manitou State Park, saying there were steep ups and downs. I got a little concerned my plan to speed through wouldn\u2019t work out.\u00a0 He said he could only do four miles the day he went through there.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 I ended up camping by myself, which I still am not used to, but managed some quality sleep.<\/p>\n
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