Day: |
092 |
Date: |
Saturday, 2 August 1986 |
Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
10.1 |
Daily Other Miles |
0.8 (to Trail) |
Total
AT Miles: |
1787.5 |
Total All Miles |
1840.7 |
Weather: |
Warm, humid, partly sunny. |
Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Eggs, sausages, muffins,
pancakes. Lunch: Chicken rolls. Dinner: Fettucine, instant
pudding. |
Aches: |
None. |
Animals Seen: |
None. |
People Seen: |
Many overnight hikers, day hikers and
others. |
Pictures: |
Here |
GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
We got up at 8:15am and had breakfast in
the dining room before messing around for a while buying odds and
ends around town and leaving at 10:30am. Marj had decided to walk
the first few miles with us, so she bought some sandwiches and
carried them. Because of construction work, we had to park nearly a
mile away from where the AT crossed US 3, so had to walk that
distance along new trail before reaching the AT and beginning the
ascent of Lafayette Mountain. The climb was tough and relentless
and Marj was falling behind, so we stopped earlier than our planned
Liberty Spring and, after lunch, bade farewell to Marj who returned
down the mountain. She had decided to stay another night in North
Woodstock. We continued our ascent. Seventeen year old Peter also
began to find the climbing hard and we had more frequent rests and
travelled more slowly than I had anticipated. We eventually reached
Little Haystack Mountain and were greeted with excellent views. The
Trail was now above the tree-line and we had a magnificent walk
along the exposed ridge as the Trail passed over a number of peaks
including the 5249’ Mount Lafayette. We were there at 5pm and still
had four miles to our target of Garfield Ridge Campsite. We pushed
on with Peter becoming very tired and eventually reached there at
7:30pm just as a shower of rain passed through. The Shelter was
pretty full, but we squeezed in and I cooked dinner outside after
the rain stopped. We had the stove so didn’t have to worry about
wet wood. We retired at 9pm with me having to sleep right across
the entrance of the Shelter hoping it didn’t rain and that I wasn’t
stood on as some-one made a night-time excursion. |
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