Walking To Maine

Betsy's trail name "Sweet Potato" has complete stuck.  They recently had their first rest day  and worked on gear repair, downsizing, and drying out. They've been hiking in the rain off and on for days. Trail was left alone in the tent for a little while and ripped a whole in the screen (luckily not an essential part!) Dustan spent the majority of that day sewing the hole with dental floss.  (Thanks, Steve Ball!) He got a sunburn on this day but the next few days would prove to be nothing but rain, fog, dripping, wind and more fog. Fog as in, a big cloud came and plopped it's fat butt on top of the mountain. 

They stopped at Blue Mountain Shelter (right) to dry out. "Sherlock" is on the left (he smokes a pipe all the time) Dave from Mai

ne is on the right. He's their best

 friend so far. 

They have mailed back items to Hidden Valley in order to lighten the load. Sounds like they are figuring out exactly what they need on a daily basis and what things are unecessary luxury, otherwise know as: weight. 

This is over 7 lbs of gear they sent back. They can't "go lite" because it would mean a ton of expensive gear. Seen here: extra vitamins, socks, a fry pan, hat, thermarest folding chairs, spoons, dogfood, bra, shorts.