Day 121 - Friday, August 6, 2021

Modern medicine is amazing. After only one day of using the antibiotics my eye improved 100%; only thing is I had to put my mono-vision contact lens in my opposite eye as they recommend that you do not wear contacts while using the prescription and my depth perception had to readjust. That’s not good when you’re hiking! 🙄

Today we are slack packing again but will be hiking an overnighter tomorrow and Sunday. We are continuing from ME 17 (1959.5 NoBo) to ME 4 (1972.7 NoBo) equaling 13.2 miles.









Fog over Mooselookmeguntic Lake.





Acknowledgements to Thoreau and Muir/Roosevelt posted by the trailhead entrance.






I keep telling myself…. “it’s just a walk in the woods.”






Moxie Pond.



Meet “Ace” & Piper (she doesn’t have a trail name… yet). Believe it or not they are from Watertown, NY - small world 🤭. They are SoBo thru hikers. Piper doesn’t realize it, if you don’t have a trail name, another thru hiker can give you one… I’m thinking “Goldilocks”. 😂  Happy Trails “Ace” & “Goldilocks”!



Sabbath Day Pond. It has a clean sand beach that swimmers enjoy!

 

All the conveniences of home.  Privy at Sabbath Day Pond campsite. 

About 1:15 pm I took a “face-plant” as my foot got hung up on a root and took me out 🤬! I’m still one up on the trip/fall count but anything can still happen... we have a lot of trail to put under our feet yet 😳. 


This is Turtle Power’s second cousin by marriage,  Fred (Fred the frog 🙄). We don’t know how Fred ended up in the middle of the trail so far from any water?

We finished hiking at 2:40 pm the temperature reached 81° 🥵.  We were hashing over tomorrow’s overnight hike as we were hiking… we decided to make it a one day slack pack 😳.  It will be over 23 miles but we figured we did the Wildcat Slack Pack Challenge with no issues, well minor issues, and the terrain on this hike does not have the horrendous climbs that the Wildcat Challenge did. We’re planning on putting boots to the trail by 5:30 am to give us time to finish by dark… hopefully 🤫😯🤥.  It’s past my bedtime…  🛌 


Till next time... Happy Hiking  🥾 

😋


“Acts of generosity in this wild and primitive setting…where basic amenities…are intentionally absent–are often received in a heightened sense of wonder and gratitude by hikers. These acts of generosity are referred to as “trail magic.”

                  (Appalachian Trail Conservancy)



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