2010 thru hike

23 August 2010, VT 103
It rained all morning. I am tired of the rain. I know I should not complain. It is nothing close to the rain the thru hikers experienced in 2003. I know a couple of people that hiked in 2003 and they told me about all the rain they received that year.

Not much to say about the walking today. Just another day in the Vermont mud, hence the nick name us hikers have given the state, Vermud.

It sure was nice to go to a dry place tonight. ...

22 August 2010, VT 140
I decided to take a short day today. The factor in this decision was the rain. The other factor stems from the blister on my left heal that is starting to bother me again. I starting wearing a new pair of boots yesterday and that’s where the blister came from.

Not much to write about when you doing nothing but trudging along in the rain and looking forward to getting to someplace dry. That is all you think about when you’re hiking ...

21 August 2010, USFS0 10
Llano and I started out at a good pace this morning. We reached Styles Peak and we thought we were on Peru Peak. I was a little disappointed that I had two more miles to go to get to Peru Peak. When we got to Peru Peak I had another disappointment when the peak was covered by trees. We decided to go to Peru Peak Shelter for lunch.

After a relatively quick lunch break we moved on another 2.7 miles to Baker Peak. We stopped for a quick snack and ...

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20 August 2010, VT 11/30, 5.2
Three of us decided to do a real easy day slack packing south today from Mad Tom Notch. Hopper, Llano and I did a six mile day up over Bromley Mountain. The assent was very easy coming from the south. We crossed paths with Rocket and one Wayfarer before the summit. Rocket had white powder all over her mouth. We knew it was from powdered donuts but gave her a hard time anyways. The warming hut was open on the summit and we all went in and had lunch and chatted ...

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19 August 2010, VT 11/30
I contacted Bismarck and Bluesky and they are taking another zero day because Bismarck was not feeling better. Chili and Pepper went back to VT 9 this morning, Hopper gave then a ride.

I went back to Stratton-Arlingtoin Road. When I got there Babalu was sitting at the trail head reading a book. I asked Babalu if he was going into Manchester and he said it was an 18 mile day and he did not want to do that much this last in the morning. I told him ...

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