Miles today: 19.2
Total miles: 1000.7
Not too much to report today. Beautiful fall day hiking. Today marks three months since the day I climbed Katahdin. I guess it’s kind of not a true three month anniversary since I took off two weeks but still it’s an important milestone. I also hit the 1000 mile mark today. That felt so great. I can’t believe I’m in quadruple digits. And that I have walked so far. These last 550 miles since getting back on trail a month ago have flown by. The first 450 seemed to drag on. To be fair, the terrain was much tougher in that first section.
This afternoon we caught up to another SOBO El Flaco. This was particularly exciting for Blondie as Flaco started the day before him and Blondie has been chasing him ever since. Recently he has become obsessive as we got closer and closer and he was so excited to finally meet him. Flaco, who is in his 50s and origibally from MA but lived basically his whole life in the Carolinas, has thru hiked twice before in 2010 and 2011.
Anyway, it was a good day and I’m going to bed feeling proud of having accomplished so many miles.