Shutterbug- You made it easy. Cept the slight turn onto the Golden Road.
Beer store/airplane/parking lot. Good you didn't send them the back way.
Still need a map. Remember moose!
Shutterbug- You made it easy. Cept the slight turn onto the Golden Road.
Beer store/airplane/parking lot. Good you didn't send them the back way.
Still need a map. Remember moose!
First off.. prepare for some seriously high water crossings. Several streams need to be forded. Normally no big deal but this year.. might be waist to chest deep in spots.
Second, yeah you might bring a tarp for just in case you won't make the next shelter. But you don't have to worry about there being enough room. The weather has been so lousy this year I would think that most from the northeasterners would have better sense than to be out hiiking, and most of the northbounders probably have gotten sick of walking in mud and deep puddles day after day.. though I could be wrong on this. . What a stinkin wet summer
Bugs will be coming out in a few weeks (been too cool and wet so far). I would suggest you bring as much of the strongest bug repellent you can possibly find. None of this off spray stuff.. go for 100+ % deet. You will be in prime bug season.
David
My advice on food hanging would be to forget everything you think you know about keep mice and red squirrels out of food. None of it works in the 100 mile. The mice and red squirrels in there are crazy. They walk right around the rope and tuna can type hangers, climb down any length of rope hung from a tree. I know some of you are going to think I am crazy but I would carry a bear canister in the 100 mile, not for bears but to keep the other critters out of my food. The piece of mind while sleeping is worth the extra weight.
My second piece of advice would be to sleep in a tent. The shelters in the 100 mile are overrun with mice. The tent will also keep you away from the bugs. I would recommend 3 separate tents, much cooler for sleeping than 3 people in one tent.
Some of the shelters in the 100 mile have buckets that can be used for killing mice.
Fill the buck with about 4 inches of water
add a little peanut butter to the bucket just above the water line.
Place bucket against wall or support post of shelter.
This is a good method of killing mice and helps keep them out of your food.
Pootz 07
Thank you Shutterbug!!! Yes... I didn't realize how many 'ABOLs' there were! LOL!
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
Yes. But it doesn't really look like a dam. So I would not use that as a landmark. Floatplane wings 20' or so above the roadbed usually catches my eye!
Kind of looks like a retaining wall to me.
Every man should have his own separate tent.1. Should we pack an ultralight tent? (2-3)lbs tent for 2 or 3 men. I know there are lean-to's throughout the wilderness but I'm wondering if they are full or if we don't make the lean-to's daily? The tent is very light so as of now we are going to take it...
Panzer
Hikers, man your tents!
"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go, and look behind the Ranges. Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you . . . Go!" (Rudyard Kipling)
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Just finished 35 miles of the 100 mile wilderness - the mud was crazy - could hardly ever take a step without being in mud. Bugs were suprisingly non existent. Hiked 2 hours in pouring rain to get to Wadleigh Stream lean to at 4:30 and it was completly full - definetly bring a tent!!
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11