AT Adventure Duo!: September 2011

8/22 Day 164: Into the 100 mile wilderness!

8/22 Day 164: hayah!

8/22 Day 164: Sut!

8/22 Day 164: wshhhh

8/22 Day 164: Tada!

8/22 Day 164: Roll!

8/22 Day 164: Dive!

8/22 Day 164: Playing on the Splash log at Lakeshore House Hostel in Monson, ME

8/22 Day 164: Jump!

8/22 Day 164: Lakeshore House Hostel. We camped outside (because it was cheaper) in the only patch of grass(ish) (smaller than our tent) to the left of this picture. It wasn't our best setup, but we did the best we could do. That night A storm rolled in and the wind coming off the lake was 60 mph (Rebeka at the hoste told us later). We spent the whole night trying to keep the stakes down and holding up my raincoat so the wind didn't blow the rain into our tent (because there wasn't enough room to set up the vestibule). At 3:00am the storm got the better of us and ripped up the stakes and knocked down our tent. So us and our puddle of sleeping bags gave up the fight and retreated indoors.

8/21 Day 163: Ford

8/21 Day 163: Darvey's farewell

8/21 Day 163: Ford

8/21 Day 163: avoiding the mud. Never works.

8/21 Day 163: Spring Peeper.

8/20 Day 162: Moxie Bald

8/20 Day 162: Climbing Moxie Bald

8/20 Day 162: on the way up Moxie Bald

8/20 Day 162: Climb up Moxie Bald Mtn

8/20 Day 162: Morning view from Pleasant Pond Mtn

8/19 Day 161: Pleasant Pond. Trash Can and Goose.

8/19 Day 161: Kenebeck River

8/19 Day 161: Hillbilly Dave, our canoe guide across the river.

8/19 Day 161: Cole bear

8/19 Day 161: The Kenebeck River

8/19 Day 161: Always shake out your shoes!

8/18 Day 160: Sunset at Pierce Pond.

8/18 Day 160: Maine: the fungus state

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8/18 Day 160: East Carry Pond

8/18 Day 160: Aqua Blazing in East Carry Pond

8/18 Day 168: East Carry Pond

8/18 Day 168: Loon

8/18 Day 168: Lunch on the dock at West Carry Pond

8/18 Day 168: fungus

8/18 Day 168: butterfly

8/18 Day 168: 2000 mi

8/18 Day 168: squirl

8/18 Day 160: Flagstaff Lake. Right after the Bigelows where we saw our first view of Katahdin off Avery Peak. Unfortunately, My camera had fallen out of my bag on a hitch. Luckily, Goose has a photographic memory and had seen the guy's name and where he worked. We called mom who looked op the phone number for his place of work. We called the #, asked for the guy. He found my camera in his trunk. He left it with Arthur Dent who was still in town. Arthur Dent sent it with Glad Gal and Clutch who left town before he did. We pulled a short day to wait for them. And within 2 days I had my camera again!

8/18 Day 160: Driftwood antlers

8/18 Day 160: Baby toad

8/15 Day 157: Arthur Dent, Ducky, Gip-C Girl, Goose, Eats

We decided to pull a 19 mile day to get out of the rain. We found these lovely people and were served dinner by a very rude waitress:

Eats-"Does the brownie sunday come with hot fudge?" Waitress-"Its a BROWNIE SUNDAY. Obviously."

The waitress is taking orders and I come to the table and look at the menu for the first time. Waitress-"and what do you want?" Ducky- "I just got here and haven't even looked at the menu yet. Can I have a minute?" Waitress- "No you have to order right now or I will hold up everyone's order."

8/15 Day 157: Low blowdown.

8/15 Day 157: Some bridges are constructed better than others.

8/15 Day 157: Last section of ME

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8/15 Day 157: Rainy Day log entry

8/15 Day 157: AT-oons

8/14 Day 156: AT-oons

8/14 Day 156

8/14 Day 156: Storm coming.

8/14 Day 156: Storm rolling in on Sattleback Jr.

8/14 Day 156: Here comes the storm! Sattleback Jr.

8/14 Day 156: The Horn looking either back towards Sattleback, or forward to Sattleback Jr.

8/14 Day 156: Looking Down Sattleback at the Horn.

8/14 Day 156: Our friend Clutch.

8/14 Day 156: Ducky and Goose on Sattleback Mtn.

8/14 Day 156: Sattleback

8/14 Day 156: Goose Climbing Sattleback Mountain. Just before this climb we saw out second moose of the trip!

8/14 Day 156: Climbing Sattleback Mtn.

8/14 Day 156: Maine loves it's two-seated privy's. And so do we!

8/13 Day 155: Cole Found St Brendan's for the first time since his bike trip. So he packed it out glass bottle and all!

8/13 Day 155: Red Team! Hiked with them the first 4 days of the trip.

8/13 Day 155: Even rocks could use a tissue.

8/13 Day 155: The Northern Forest Canoe Trail goes through Rangeley, ME.

8/13 Day 155: Rangeley, ME

8/13 Day 155: Young frog

8/13 Day 155: Goose's bear bag hang.

8/13 Day 155: South Pond at 5:00am. Photography by Goose.

8/12 Day 154: Great end to the day!

8/12 Day 154: Captain Cole and his 1/2 paddle

8/12 Day 154: Peg-leg Paddy aqua-dining! A special menu for tonight... More pasta!

8/12 Day 154: Captain Cole collecting paddle replacements for a safe journey home.

8/12 Day 154: Those SOBO's didn't know what they were talking about when they told us there was no stealth camping on South Pond. Not only was there stealth camping, but there was a canoe, a rowboat, and 1/2 a paddle!

8/12 Day 154: Bear print

8/12 Day 154: Getting his tan

8/12 Day 154: Goose basking in the sun.... if the clouds weren't in the way...

8/12 Day 154: Our first Maine Sandy beach! Of course we swam!

8/12 Day 154: Blueberries. In the process of picking I but my hand on a fire ants nest.

8/11 Day 153: View after Bemis Mtn.

8/11 Day 153: Maybe Bemis View?

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8/11 Day 163: View from Old Blue Mtn

8/10 Day 152: Climbing

8/10 Day 152: Cool AT sign.

8/10 Day 152: The cabin we stayed in.

8/10 Day 152: The cabin we atayed in. it had two lofted beds with latters up to them.

8/9 Day 151: Egg salad sandwich

8/9 Day 151: Feast on the sidewalk outside the grocery store in Bethel, ME. Feasted till after dark then attempted to get a 17 mile difficult multi-road hitch. Ended up getting offered our second free cabin of the trip!