At the moment, I'm eating a hamburger in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere, 25 miles from the closest town. This place, White House Landing, sits in the middle of the wilderness about a mile from the trail at the edge of Pemadumcook Lake. It's a wilderness get-a-way and they provide services for the hikers. One of the hikers I'm with is from Maine and knew about it. To get to it, you have to blow an air horn from the other side of the lake where the trail passes. Check out the pictures at their website below. Click on the Photo Collection link on their home page.
http://www.whitehouselanding.com/
http://www.whitehouselanding.com/
Today the weather is nice, but it has rained the last two days. I met up with a couple hikers and even had a moose follow me down the trail yesterday for about half a mile, it was apparently heading to a water hole at the end of the trail, so there are definitely signs of life out here. The guy from Maine said he's lived here his whole life and hasn't seen one, so I guess I'm lucky. Moose are BIG !
As for the trail itself, it is quite rocky and rooted, generally in the woods, so no sunburn to speak of. Insects haven't been a big issue lately, (unless I stop moving) and I've been sleeping in the 3-sided shelters thus far up off the ground and sheltered from the rain. I'm about 70 miles from Monson, the end of the "wilderness", and have been averaging about 15 miles a day (give or take a few), yesterday we did 20. Yesterday we had to cross a stream that was about mid-thigh in depth. I was walking on rocks until it became slippery and I went for a little deeper swim. Luckily I was able to keep my pack dry.
That's it for now. I've taken pictures, but I'm technologically challenged so I haven't figured out how to send them from my phone to my brother to be posted.
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