Category: Appalachian Trail

We woke up to rain and packed quickly to hike into Hanover for breakfast and resupply. It was a wet 16 mile day from Velvet Rocks Shelter to Thistle Rock.

Stopped  at Happy Hill Shelter for lunch where we met Beast, Shaker, and Woods Strider. Beast and Shaker were were with us for the night at Thistle Rock Shelter.

Not much to report. Tough day. Sleeping in shelter tonight in order to dry out.

Here is another salamander. They must love the rain.

The trail leaves New Hampshire and enters Vermont on this bridge in Hanover.

View toward bridge from Hanover. It really rained a lot during road walk.

Here is a bench to rest on after the first tough climb in Vermont. There were more climbs to go before reaching shelter.

Now i am sitting in dry Shelter writing this blog. It is 8 pm, my stomach is full, I have dry sleeping clothes on, an de the rain is pattering loudly in the tin roof. Hurricane Nate was set to track over us at 7pm.

• It was warm and humid and my shirt was soaked in sweat by the time I topped out on the first climb of 1200 ft. We had a few periods of rain. The trail became mostly easy but I was still worn out by the time I covered 15 miles.

Here is where we ate lunch. Moose Mountain Shelter.

We topped off water here but we were running low by the time we reached Ledyard spring, near Velvet Rock Shelter.

Here is spring and sign.

This salamander came out at night. He was living under the Rick we cooked on.

Here are some nice photos from the day.