| September 03, 2005 |
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Leaving at 7:10am from Wadleigh Stream
Lean-to. Stream crossing #1. I crossed the stream on a
little tiny pole using my hiking sticks and was able to get across
OK. Pretty morning so fat. Not sunny yet, hopefully it
will be a little late on today. I spent the night with 2
French Canadian college kids from Quebec. It was very
interesting talking with them. They were both very fluent in
both English and French. I also stayed with a guy that now
lives in Florida and was born in the Virginias and was around the AT
trail as kid. He lives on a sail boat in Florida and works for
a health care clinic where he get 6 months off at a time. He
explained it as a seasonal job. He hiked the AT last year and
had some trouble with his feet. This year he started where he
left off and is hiking to Katahdin. Next year he's going to
sail his sail boat up to Maine and leave his sailboat in Maine for
the winter and then sail his sail boat back down to Florida.
That's quite a life isn't it? |
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I climbed a fair size mountain, I think it
the same mountain I was on yesterday and just came around and
I'm high enough that I can see over the lake. It has been a
little easer traveling. Sun is starting to pop out just a
little bit. The trail went up over the hill through the rocks
and mosses and brought back down the hill to the same pond at the
east end of the pond. I'm standing right at the waters edge
looking out over the lake. It sure is a beautiful lake.
The wind is heavy though. It is making a lot of white caps.
My husband would certainly enjoy landing a float plane on this lake. |
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I rock crossed creek #2. All these little
creeks feed this lake. Most of the terrain in here is soft;
I'm in pine needles. Here I am again right out beside the
lake. I see a couple of fisherman and a tent on the shore. |
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I hope I can get through this 100 mile
wilderness without incident. They put the trail right along
the cliffs of the lake and the water was splashing up on me from
those rocks and stuff. It was high and wet. I couldn't
find any other around until I had hiked a good ways. I saw
through the weed a partially beat down path, so I decided to take
it. And I did get back out on the trail. |
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Back on the regular AT now going through
the pine woods with lot of roots. In one hour and a half I've
come 2.5 miles. That's how rough it has been coming through
there. The best way to describe this section is rocks, roots,
and mud; mud rocks and roots. Up and down, down and up.
Hills and valleys, valleys and hills. Wet feet with forges and
streams, streams and forges. Puddles, swamps, lake, rivers;
rivers, lakes, swamps and puddles. Pines and hardwoods, hardwoods
and pines. Rough, rugged, main, main, rugged and rough. |
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I just saw some moose droppings and a make
shift camp ground along side the river. I cane to a sigh that
said high water route 2 tenths of a mile, so I decided naw, I won't
take it. I went along the AT south the way I was suppose to
and got to this real muddy section. Maybe I should take the
high water route, so that is what I decided to do. Got over to
the section to where there was a lot of water and stuff so I crossed
the first mud puddles sections and went on and there was
another big one and I crossed it, but then I lost the blazes.
I couldn't find them, so I turned around and came back out and
continued don the regular AT. |
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just now saw a bear running in front of across the trail. I
thought it was a hiker at first a black back pack on. Then I
saw he was kind of lumping through. I saw the sign where I
would have come out , but I'm glad I didn't or I would have missed
the bear! |
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Just passed over a stream that was running
ramped. I couldn't rock hop across. Although in a dry
time you probably could, but there was some huge big logs and stuff
laying across the stream. I thought well I'll risk trying to
stand up and go across those. It was scary and the last log
was a single log and slanted, so I kind of balanced and went
sideways; had to catch my balanced once because I lean down and the
water was to deep to catch one of my poles, so I started again and
half ran on across it, then jumped on off to the bank. Made it
OK. |
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Wide Joe Spring Lean-to is 2.4 miles south.
I have come from Nahmakanta Lake 4. 8 miles today. It's just
now 11:am Kodak Joeby Pond Road is 17 miles. I going to
go to Pemadumcook Lake. |
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At Marr Landing I've got to hike down the
blue trail which is 3 tenths mile and go a mile and a half to the
White House Landing and order up one of those great big hamburgers.
Here I will ring the air horn and they will come and get me in the
canoe and take me across the lake. This is a little out of the
way of the AT, but I think it will be well worth the experience.
I understand from the north bound hikers that when he brings you
back across, he bring you back at a different point so that you just
have to hike back the 2 tenths mile up to the AT. I just saw a
moose track in the mud. I finally mad it and here I come up on
the landing. Ok here is one short blast. The man is
coming is a small motor boat. I'll stay at White Landing for
the night. This will give me time to get my clothes washed and
and a shower. That make me feel better. I'm about 32
miles into the 100 mile wilderness. About 70 miles to go before I
get into the Monson area. |
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Swing'n Jane |
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