Miles ~15
Total ~654
Sights: Baxter Peak, Big Branch Brook, White Rocks
Jamie: It's always harder to get up after consuming liquid calories so we didn't really get ou tof camp until 10 (we also had grits for breakfast which, while delicious take a bit of time to make/clean up).
We had a fairly steep climb up Baxter Peak which offered great views. WE say Whitless, her mom and Jester up there but the mom must have gotten hurt because her father was waiting some miles on. Around 1pm Shannon was feeling hungry and the Big Branch Brook was just too inviting. We had a great lunch there (we got a red onion in Manchester so all of our meals are more delicious).
For lunch we usually have tuna, deviled ham or salmon and crackers. Early on, we realized that it is not easy to apply one to the other so no we make "casseroles" by crumbling the crackers into a bag and adding the meat/fish along with whatever condiments we can get our hungry, flavor deprived hands on.
Knowing that we wouldn't be hitting our 19 miles target today, we just enjoyed hanging by the river for awhile-we even washed socks and underwear while we were there. We eventually got up and walked the 8 more miles to our shelter for the night only to learn that there was no water, so we continued down to this "Bully Brook" (It stole my lunch money!!) We found a nice sandy spot to set up our tent and had dinner in the river to avoid the bugs. All in all, another fine day to be out here.
Side note: We met two hikers from Amherst-nice young boys. We mentioned that we were there last week and we talked about everyplace we ate and stayed. We told them how we were house sitting by puffers pond in Amherst and it turns out that we were housesitting in the house that one of them grew up in! His parents sold it about 5 years ago. crazy small world.
Side Note 2: The kid how's former house we were housesitting in is apprenticing how to tune organs. Interesting.
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