30 Rock stars and Dartmouth jokers - from Sept 12

What's this? Dirt and pine needles underfoot? Kind of an unevenly full day. There was a fellow at the shelter that worked at Rockerfellr center. He said he never met any 30 rock stars. He's trying to get a short section of the AT done. I found out later that the shelter he was headed for next burned down in 2011. It was dang cold that night too. Guess he was ok… The views from the occasional overlook are still very nice, bucholic even but they are nothing like the Whites. The trails are easier and the ups and downs are not so hard or long. My miles creep up to 15 a day very easily.
43.955° N, 71.944° W

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Hiking towards Hanover after Hexacube shelter. Spent the night alone-that's a first! And it was a hexagonal shelter. The weather has been rain and then two days of cold wind overcast. I guess it eliminates the clammy sweat drenched cloths at the end of the day. It's putting on the cold clammy stuff in the morning that hurts. I've begun keeping the days socks in my sleeping bag to have them dry by the morning. On the down hills and flats I'm wearing my insulated wind breaker and gloves and my fleece cap. On the uphills I can generate enough heat for just a shirt but wind is still blowing and it is dang cold. I had to stop for an hour or do to work a cramp out of my leg. I know, more fluids and electrolytes I am doing pretty good this was a fluke.
Up on one of those ridges I came across four young fellow nobo still intent on a thru hike. And here's where my den mother theory plays out. Four young bucks no women. One fellow was wearing only his skivvies . It was a dare he said. One fellow was wearing only a spaghetti western wool poncho. I never did get to just why. And one was not wearing any shoes. These lost boys need a Wendy!
45° Mostly Cloudy
Orford, NH, United States

Hexacube shelter of course. That Dartmouth Outing Club, they are such jokers
43.8761° N, 72.0263° W

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