Luckily the thunderstorms passed me by last night. Just a little rain. Unluckily, I mistakenly used up too much water leaving me with only .5L (16 oz) for the walk over and down the next peak. This was going to mean some serious rationing if the heat picked up.
After tearing down my tent from the tiny plot of land I'd found for it (my fly was pegged around a tree), I set out to get to the nearest water supply around 2 miles away.
2 minutes into my journey, I found a beautiful campsite with several large tent pads and a fire pit.
Today was going to annoy me.
In fact it turned out that I'd already done most of the climbing I had to do, and I summitted about 10 minutes after leaving my camp. The long downward rock scramble I'd assumed was awaiting me, didn't appear at all. It was a bit technical, but nothing that I couldn't have handled easily the night before.
It was easy to laugh it all off though, because I knew that in a few hours I'd be in Caratunk, where there was real food and brew pub waiting for me.
I think my favourite part of the day, though, was the hiker box at the post office where some Trail Angel had left chocolate chip cookies and some bubble gum for hikers to snack on. It also held two full meal packets, which pretty much covered me for dinners until the next town. The hostel hiker box proffered homemade dehydrated chicken noodle soup, and some electrolyte pellets that another SOBO and I shared (Stephanie - no trail name yet*).
A big feed of chickenless-wings (broccoli in batter with wing sauce), a side salad, a burger with fries, and a sampling paddle of beer will keep me going for the next step tomorrow.
The plan is to hit the trail in the morning and do around 12 miles, though I'm hearing a rumour about $9 AYCE pancakes near 3 mile mark, if pancakes are worth a nero. Tough decision.
Start: minutes from the peak of Pleasant Mtn.
End: Caratunk, ME (Sterling Inn - delightful place with an extremely friendly and chatty proprietor and good resupply)
Distance: ~7 Miles (11 km)
* I wanted to call Stephanie "Arya", because "a girl has no name." She refused the trail name.
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