West Branch Peabody River. In Maine we make you take your shoes off and wade across. On my way to Madison spring hut the first 3 miles take about an hour and a half. The next 3 miles take 6 hours. I had to cross the auto road. It looked and sounded like a race track. Madison is a brute of a hike: steep with loose boulders up and then a half mile down. If this is what it's going to be like tomorrow's 11.2 mile hike could be a workout. Arrived at the hut and found my bunk. The things I left in Pinkham in a box in their closet include my sleeping bag ( they give you three wool blankets and a pillow with your bunk) my stove , my hammock, the empty flask from my last hiking party and food. I am carrying a jug of pnut butter and a bag of tortillas for lunches in the trail but I just don't do pnut butter well ( kind of like instant oatmeal - although I was talking to a fellow at breakfast and he said walmart had instant cream of wheat , now if I could just find grits!) and I have pop tarts and snickers bars, energy bars and instant Gatorade. I'm not sure why I didn't bring jerky. Anyway my pack on the way out of Pinkham this morning weighed 25 pounds. This hut is newly remodeled and sparkling lots of nice bunk space new furniture and floors. When I got here, there was one thru hiker sitting In the corner. While I was buying lemonade ( no ice) 5 other thru hikers came and begged for work for stay. The crew said there was plenty of room and three of them could wash dishes, do floors, scrub toilets and sleep on the floor after the guests ( that's me) have gone to bed. I have no clue where the others are staying. Correction, I just saw the crew give some of them Headlights.
To be turned in where? Nope they were just going in the shed to get tools. But while this group was being put to work about ten other through hikers showed up. I think they were all sent lacking probably down to find a tent site I don't know where.
Supper was good at least there was a lot of it. No napkins and please take all your trash with you when you leave. Good cold water. I wonder how they dug a 90 foot well. Beautiful sunset-- the speaker tonight is one of the thru hikers telling their story. It doesn't start until 8. I'll be in my bunk. Thru hikers still showing up. My table mates at supper are all heading to Lake of the Clouds but. I don't know who I spoke to but they told me I could skip that one and go to the next hut mitzpa. Hence my 11 mile day and all of my new hut to hut weekend warrior friends are only going 6.
43.8235° N, 72.408° W
To be turned in where? Nope they were just going in the shed to get tools. But while this group was being put to work about ten other through hikers showed up. I think they were all sent lacking probably down to find a tent site I don't know where.
Supper was good at least there was a lot of it. No napkins and please take all your trash with you when you leave. Good cold water. I wonder how they dug a 90 foot well. Beautiful sunset-- the speaker tonight is one of the thru hikers telling their story. It doesn't start until 8. I'll be in my bunk. Thru hikers still showing up. My table mates at supper are all heading to Lake of the Clouds but. I don't know who I spoke to but they told me I could skip that one and go to the next hut mitzpa. Hence my 11 mile day and all of my new hut to hut weekend warrior friends are only going 6.
43.8235° N, 72.408° W
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