Arrived in Stratton, Maine yesterday (7/6/2010) morning after a brief hitch hike into town. I'm staying at the Stratton Motel, $20 a night. Took a shower and did my laundry. The last 3 days have been some of the easiest days so far, I've been averaging about 13 miles a day and have completed about 188 miles, only 100 more to get out of Maine.
We experienced some "Appalachian Trail Magic" on the 4th of July. We even got to see some fireworks from the campers near Flagstaff Lake. We had a cooler of beer, pop and snickers bars left in the shelter for us, it was nice to kick back after a day of pestering bugs and heat. It was so bad I even wore my bug netting over my head to keep the biting flies off me. It's also been very hot these last few days hiking and its been even tough sleeping. I think I'm going to have to get a lighter rated sleeping bag.
I saw lots of turtles, snakes and frogs over the last few days as well. I was also the recipient of a couple Heineken's from a NOBO hiker on Saturday.
We lost one of our hikers, "Bread" hung up his shoes, so now we call him "Toast". But we picked up a new hiker, Jill, who hails from New Hampshire.
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