No actual rain today, but the clouds barely lifted. Despite a lot of hard climbing up White Cap Mountain, the views were only of clouds.
I ran into a couple from Perth that I'd been hearing about. Sidetrack and Jules have two huge Alaska Malamutes with them, and they're slowly trudging through the wilderness doing around 5 miles a day. It was nice to hear that accent again and chat about Aussie life.
They're planning to do the whole trail (minus the dog unfriendly bits), but at their current pace they'll finish sometime in 2018, so I expect they'll leap frog more.
Most of the trip so far has been hiking with Trout, the 18 year old son of a rabbit* from Georgia. Tonight we shared a 3-course meal of Chicken with Rice from a Mountain House meal packet, tuna casserole with mushrooms and "Asian stir fry spices", and fruit gushers. A terrific end to an otherwise pretty boring day.
Tomorrow we're aiming to cross Chairback gap and camp at Cloud Pond. We'll start with a tough climb up to Chairback mountain.
I'm old, so my left knee is really not happy with all this up and down. Luckily we're getting close to a rest day in Monson so that keeps me pushing through the pain.
Start: Logan Brook Lean-to
End: West Branch Pleasant River
Distance: 11.8 miles (19km)
*This should be rabbi, but Trout asked me to leave it uncorrected because students at Rabbinical School are called Rabbits (Rabbi's In Training)
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