Miles today: 10.2
Total miles: 183.1
The boys caught up to us today! They hiked 20 miles yesterday and caught up with us around noon today. It was nice to be all back together again. It’s crazy how much we’ve become like a little family. The day was consumed by huge climbs up and over the bigelows. These 4000 footers are the biggest mountains we’ve climbed since day one Katahdin and after a 17 mile day yesterday my legs were sure feeling it.
The views were amazing and rewarding. We could see the ski trails of sugarloaf in the distance and other mountains and lakes all around. Our weather has continued to spoil us. We haven’t had one day of rain. We had maybe an hour of light drizzly rain a week or so ago but besides that it has been warm and sunny. I’m so grateful for the fantastic weather (although the days in the 90s certainly doesn’t make hiking easy). I feel almost guilty because we have talked to so many northbounders who had to hike in record breaking rains in June. One group last night said they had 19 days straight of rain. I’m hoping this dry sunny stretch lasts for as long as possible though! As I write this shuffle and wolf bird are talking about clouds forming and how it may rain tonight so I may have just jinxed us. Oh well.
Yep. It stormed hard. 60 mph winds and pouring rain. We abandoned our tents and stayed in the shelter just to be safe.