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Back to the trail – part 2: White Mountain Adventure

Author
Chris Kelley
Published
Sun 22 Jul 2018
Episode Link
https://chriskelley.org/2018/07/22/back-to-the-trail-part-2-white-mountain-adventure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-the-trail-part-2-white-mountain-adventure



This is podcast 2 in a two part series (part 1 here)on our 2018 section hike of the Appalachian Trail through the White Mountains in New Hampshire. ?Kendall and I recount our various adventures and sum up with what we are taking away from this most recent walk in the woods (more mountains than woods…), including:



  • Getting back on the trail after an unplanned day off.

  • Making decisions as a group

  • How luck plays a huge role in your experience

  • How hiking can “force” you into a more meditative frame of mind


We are already planning our next adventure, so if you have any suggestions of sections we should take a look at , drop them in the comments below.



A soggy start to what would be a foreshortened day 5 and a crew that is absent Me and Mason (we had already left for Highlands)


Coming down Mt. Webster…what would end the day early.


Hanging things out to dry in the “emergency” suite at Highlands Center.


Refreshed after a hard day 5 and a night at Highlands center. Ready for a good day 6 on our way to Guyot Tent Site.


We got lucky and were able to wait out a storm in a hut…but the creek didn’t have that luxury so it was raging by the time we got to it to cross.




Up and at ’em on the morning of day 7 from Guyot Tent Site.


A quick break on a hard day 7.


Yep, that’s the trail that leads to Garfield Ridge campsite. It just happens to be an active waterfall as well. After this we were expecting the trail to go through an active volcano!


Cooking dinner at Garfield Ridge Tent Site. Last dinner on the trail so emptying the food bag of all dinner stuffs.


It was slow going on the top of Mt. Lafayette with the fog making it hard to see the next trail marker.




The feeling that can only be achieved by actually finishing something like an 8 day section hike through the white mountains.


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