We’ve made it to our last state, less than 300 miles to go!
The sun came out too, and has stayed out for the few days we’ve been here. The terrain is rugged, very rocky and steep, and we are more “in the woods” than we’ve been so far. We are hiking in the Mahoosuc range and got to go through one of the more famous sections of trail yesterday: the Mahoosuc Notch. It’s a mile long section of car-sized boulders at the junction of two steep mountains that hikers have to pick and choose thier way through. It took us over an hour to go that mile section, and we got bumped and bruised, but it was exciting!
We ran into our old buddy Slowstepper who lives around this part of Maine. He finished his section hike of the AT this year by hiking Springer to Harpers Ferry. We were there the day he finished! He and his wife have been tracking down all his hiking buddies and bringing them trail magic. He showed up at the road we hiked to today with some fresh watermelon and candy bars. It was great to see him and to meet his wife. Have fun hiking the Mahoosucs!
The latest update with Corley is that he’s getting tons of loving attention from Mark & Julie, he went car camping with them last week and slept a good bit. Perhaps we’ll be getting him back near Monson, ME. We still miss him a lot!
We’re in Andover, ME staying at the home of the very generous and fun Scott, aka Gunny Goose, grilling hot dogs and hanging out with some other hikers. We’ll get back on the trail tomorrow morning and slug and slosh our way up some more tough Maine mountains!
Hope all’s going well with back to school for you kids and the beginning of the end of summer for the rest of y’all!
Best,
susan, andy (and corley)
May 3rd, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Браво, вас посетила замечательная мысль…
We are hiking in the Mahoosuc range […….
May 24th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Хороший!!!Будем ждать лучшего качества…
We’ve made it to our last state, less than 300 miles to go!
The sun came out too, and has stayed out for the few days we’ve been here…..