August 12 -- Sugarloaf from little Bigelow. Rain tonight ?
So let me catch you up..
I kept pushing on from potential camp site to potential campsite. The rumour during the day was that we were in for 4 days of wet weather . So I'm thinking I better get as far as I can while I can. I'm playing leap frog with two of the ladies that were camped at pierce pond. All four of us make it to the campsite something memorial nestled between Avery peak and west peak of the Bigelows. It's about 3.3 more miles to the next shelter - over west peak and the horn. The two ladies strike off for the next leanto. I rest for a couple minutes and start off to catch them. Weather is rolling in, clouds and serious wind. I'm thinking I better hoof it to the shelter or I'll be stuck for a couple days in the lousy wether. Off I start and after about 3 minutes I say to myself wait a minute . If there 3 plus miles above tree line and up and down it could take me 2 hours. Oh and the time is 5:30. I turn around and start looking for a place to hang. I have no idea how the girls , hiking slower than me are going to make it. Because it's above tree line the camping spaces are very well identified. And there are brand new tent platforms available. I forgo the hammock and try to get the tarp up over a platform. Wind rains and dark are rolling in. I get my ground cloth down and my pad and somehow arrange my tarp sans hammock to keep me dry . There is a small hole in the rocks to get water but it is so black and full of detritus that I need to filter it throught my stinky kerchief. It's the worst water I have ever seen and there is darn little of it. In the morning about everything I own is soaking wet and I decide it would be appropriate for me to escape to Stratton and malindi down the fire warden's trail - almost a direct shot. The other people camping decide the same thing. There's supposed to be 4 days of rain coming on. Interesting that on The way down I have a decent poop. Malindi picked me up right on schedule and we set about to explore Stratton and the surroundings. Interesting that while we were in the grocery store I had to use the bathroom to poo…????? Whats with that? I waited at Malindi's for her to get out of work and then We hit the road for China around 10:30 pm. We almost got to Kingfield before we decide the back tire was sounding wrong so we stopped to check it out and discoverd three of the five rear right tire lug bolts were sheared right off. We called AAA they got to is around 0300 and we got home by 0430. A lot of story to that one..
Just as a closer, the next day I had the worst trots I have ever had in my life. Very similar to the colonoscopy prep but this lasted for three days.! I was going to blame it on the black water a( I even took a picture of my filter set up. ) The kerchief is now permanently stained) but apparantly there was something going around.. ??
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