The trail was not as flooded and muddy as I feared when I started hiking again the day after the storm made landfall and swept through Vermont. The photos below provide a sense of what is was like. To be sure, though, I need new shoes and gaiters! Most notable: August 24vis my final day of hiking the Vermont section of the AT. On August 25 I will enter Massachusetts!
As I wrote previously I am getting focused on hiking more miles each day. Part of the reason is to make up for taking unplanned zero days, such was the case during Hurricane Henri. With the terrain becoming mo700pmre favorable to faster hiking (I do not consider my hiking style as “fast”) I can work towards arriving at the southern terminus of the AT in early December. That is the best case scenario. But I am hiking later in the day and making camp in the evening while darkness encourages sleep rather than writing for this blog. I will make some changes in my daily trail habits to write more. Meantime, the next few posts will be mostly photos and fewer words.
As always you can see my real-time location produced by the InReach unit I carry and a daily log of my progress on the trail.
Hurricane Ida is coming. Arriving Nashville today.
No posts for 5 days…you ok?
YES! Too sleepy after long days of hiking to write. But don’t worry…