Falling back a week means I'm meeting a whole new set of hikers. A few have decided to do the Connecticut Challenge - hiking all 51 miles of CT in a single day. This typically means starting at midnight, and walking fast-ish for 24 hours. It also usually means several days of suffering and recovery.
Other trail challenges:
12x12: do 12 miles before noon.
Marathon: do 26.2 miles in a day
4 State Challenge: touch 4 states in a single day. Typically this is Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. It works because MD and WV are 44 miles between them.
At the top of Bear Mountain in CT, I met two hikers who gave me bananas and a nectarine that they thought was a pluot (cross between a plum and an apricot). It turns out one is the pastry/pantry chef at Zinc in New Haven - a fancy farm to table restaurant that I'm hoping to visit some day. I'll try to bring her a pluot.
I met a guy who assured me there was water at Riga. Since the area I'm in is suffering a drought, that information is worth gold. He was also a rude opinionated ex-hiker, so I shouldn't have been surprised that he was wrong. (not everyone i meet on trail is great...)
Start: Mt Everett Rd
End: Lion's Head + a bit
Distance: 11.5 miles
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