Miles today: 7.8
Total miles: 51.8
Today was a test in patience. We got up especially early at 4:30 to get going by 5:30 so we could go to White House Landing for breakfast by 8. WHL is a hostel and basically the only place in the 100 mile wilderness where you can get supplies or real food. We didn’t want to stay, we were just going for their breakfast and maaaybe staying for their one pound burgers for lunch. To get there we had to walk 0.9 miles off the trail through tons of mud to a dock where we sounded an air horn. Then we had to wait for them to come across the lake and bring us there by boat.
We got to the dock around 7 after walking three miles. We blew the air horn and waited. We’d be talking up this breakfast since yesterday and thoughts of pancakes got me through some tough uphills. Finally the boat came after waiting a long hour and 15 minutes.
We immediately discovered breakfast was for guests only. In my head I was comforted by the fact we could just wait until 11 for the one pound burgers. BUT NOO. We found out they stopped doing that this year for non guests too. Blasphemy!! We were already on the boat at this point and stuck going there (and we’d planned our entire day around it anyway). We were all disheartened. I may have been most devastated.
We settled for going there and picking up some supplies like bug sprays and dinners for the rest of the wilderness. Well we got there and they told us to wait while they did some chores. A mere THREE HOURS later they let us look at their supplies and buy stuff and then took us back across the lake. It was so frustrating to just sit there while they did their chores at their pretty relaxed pace when we could have been hiking (or eating a great breakfast…). I suppose it was our own fault but it definitely put a damper on our day.
The rest of the day was only six miles and it was easy. The campsite we stayed at was so beautiful and right on a lake. Brittani, trail name Shuffle, Cool Blue, and James, newly named Wolf Bird (I will do a trail name post later.,. Mine is Sherpa) found clams in the lake which we boiled and ate with some spices.
I got really bad blisters on my heels which made hiking difficult. New pains keep appearing! Always an adventure!