| September 22, 2005 |
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It's 8:10am leaving Hall Mountain Shelter.
I saw Gavin again from Zanesville. |
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It's pretty and sunny this morning which I
think makes everything better. I know the sun feels good and
warm to me. I've actually still have my raincoat and my gloves
on this morning because it's still a little cool. When I got
to the top of the mountain I could feel that warm sun. |
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The terrain is a lot different than it has
been. It is a little smoother hiking with some space where I
can look up. I have another river to forge this morning some
time between here and the next shelter. |
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Going up hill over some larger rocks, but I
can hear the water running underneath me, so it must have been a
partial stream bed where the big rocks were. Getting in to
woods more so than pines. It's pretty open in this area.
I can see quite a ways. |
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I must be at the summit of Hall Mountain.
I also have a view for the first time in 3 days. I can off
into the distance to the farthest ranges. I can also see a
couple of ponds and looks like maybe some small houses or a small
town. |
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The wind is really blowing now, pretty
cool; it must be blowing in the right direction because I can hear
down in the valley hound dogs off in the distance. Just passed
2 north bounders that I didn't know and 3 I knew. It's
difficult to remember trail names! |
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Looks I made it across Hall Mountain and
Wyman Mountain. I'm very near Surplus Pond area. I was
just on a logging road and back into the woods. I met 4 more
north bounders at Surplus Pond. The 2 that had the dog I had
seen them at Harriman State Park in NY. Coming up form the
pond is a steep little grade and I got started and slipped on a real
slick place, down I went, caught myself on a sharp pointed rock with
my wrist. I just busied it badly. |
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I'm at East B Hill Road, the road that goes
into Andover Maine. I'm not going to go in, I'm going to try
to go to Frye Notch Lean-to. This is kind of a nice little
trail following this little stream down hill with a nice little
falls. Pretty yellow leaves floating around in the water. |
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This is a little unusual for me, I'm hiking
on some pine needles for a change. Probably won't last very
long. It is nice on your feet. |
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I'm at Dunn Falls. They have it
marked as a no fire area. The rocks in the river are
beautiful. They're laying on their side. Big boulders in
it. Really pretty. Pine trees all growing around it,
soft easy stuff under my feet. Nice little water falls.
I just ran into a blue blaze area. I'll have to watch very
carefully here, don't know if this is on the AT or not. I
think it is. |
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I'm standing on top of a large boulder looking down
over big water falls. It has had so much volume over these
years it cut out the rock in between big boulders. These are
pretty white granite rocks with some slate mixed in. It's 2
water falls with the pond below it and has a lot floating birch
leaves on it. |
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There is a little brown snake in the trail
in front of me. This Dunn Falls crossing is like a deep gorge.
I met more north bounders. This has been a long steep
climb coming up out of Dunn Falls. |
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The winds have really picked up this
afternoon. The local people told me that the weather from Rita
will hit about Friday. Just came up a real steep boulder area.
I must be getting fairly close to the to of this mountain.
Just about stepped on a snake! It was a dark colored, but I
don't know what kind it was. Back into the closed pine tree
trail with a lot of mud and just moisture from the rains that we've
had. Dark and very dense and you can't see through them.
I think this is part of the Baldpate Mountain Range. |
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I finally arrive at 4:20pm at the Frye
Notch Lean-to. Baldpate East is 1.8 miles and Baldpate Lean-to
is 3.5 miles. I've come 10 1/2 miles today. |
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Swing'n Jane |
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