View from Sunday

Eating my last apple in the sun with this view. Expect to be in Monson in 2 1/2 days then on to Caratunk.

Long Pond and the back side of Big Spencer, from Roach

"Darn, this morning traffic"

Sunday pm: 

Another Rainey afternoon evening I've eaten and am laying in a nice dry hammock as the rains pitted pats on the tarp- seems to be getting harder. I left chair back gap shelter this morning at 6 and immediately started going up. Spend a good portions of the day going up . And this kind of up reminded me well of climbing a chair ack duh. It was hand over hand big rocks straight up and it was equally vertical going down. Mostly two ups and two downs . A mere 10.9 miles and I got into camp at 4:30 exhausted. That's why at 8 pm I'm in bed looking at a 12.1 day tomorrow ( lots of little ups and downs) which will put us within a half days walk to Monson the next day. Ole hasn't shown up but Mav and chuck and Betsey are here and a whole bunch of misfits. One guy Mav described as a kook. Fits perfect. Lost his socks at a river crossing. Long hair looks like a kook. The pastor boys showed up late Mennonites? I tried to walk with them today but all they did was talk talk talk. They aren't carrying a stove they are carrying Tupperware full of all kinds of food and a cloths line with cloths pins. That had fruit ups at supper. There's a kid we picked up at the last shelter who just graduated From high school not yet 18 and he's going to spend a gap year doing this. He was trying to reconstitute peas and beans when I left the leanto.
At the last lean to there was a work crew of 20 something's Interns volunteers and AMC crew spending about a week camped ther and working on improving the trail. It was muddy sweaty buggy back breaking work trying to build a rock stair in a particular trying section of trail. They did a communal kitchen and played music ( of sorts) afterward. There was only one Maine kid the rest were from all across the country. Kinda neat.

45.4211° N, 69.4106° W