July 12, 2010; Closing in on New Hampshire

It's Monday and I'm in Andover, Maine. I've hiked about 8 miles today and plan on about 4 more miles. Chris, the "Weatherman", who I met on the Greyhound bus, has decided to call it quits, to boring for him I guess. I did some above tree-line hiking on Saddleback Mountain and crossed over Bemis, Elephant and Old Blue mountains. Lots of rocks. Andover is about 18 miles from the New Hampshire boarder and between 30 and 40 miles from Gorham, New Hampshire at the base of the White Mountains. They call this the toughest stretch on the trail. We'll probably take a zero day at Gorham to rest before we head over the Whites. In the Whites we'll split up again so we have room in the shelters. They are larger, but few and farther apart. I'll probably be in Gorham by Friday or Saturday.