EMILY'S ESCAPADES

Day 187 Tuesday September 26, 2017 Miles: 1883.5 - 1891.6.   Completed 8.1 Time: 6:00am - 1:40pm Weather: HOT Hotel room at Royalty Inn Gorham, NH New Hampshire is almost in the bag. We did the most treacherous and challenging part without a hitch. We had no weather issues, no injuries, and no logistical challenges. As a matter of fact everything was fantastic. We can't believe the heat wave the White Mountains have had since we have been back on trail. We are not complaining

Day 165 Monday September 4, 2017 Zero Miles Weather: beautiful Sleeping at my own home View of Franconia Ridge NH We visited my dad last night at the Hospital in Bangor. He was anxious to be able to come home. As long as his numbers were still good in the morning they would release him. And they were. My brother and sister brought him home late morning. Shortcake, Batman and I spent our morning at home doing what we always do on a zero day, tending to hiking chores such as la

Day 164 Sunday September 3, 2017 Zero Miles If you have followed this blog for any length of time you will recognize several common themes. One of them being everything seems to workout. Last night we were not too thrilled to have to travel so far from the trail and to take a zero due to weather.  It because of those issues I was available to receive contact from home that my dad was still not doing well. Dad was still in the hospital from his health issues a couple weeks ago

Day 163 Saturday September 2, 2017 Miles: 1807.9 - 1816.7.    Completed: 8.8 Time: 7:05am - 5:16pm Weather: Cold, windy start then ended warm and sunny Hotel Hampton Inn Our luck at hitting popular destinations on a Saturday has been terrible. I think the whole world was climbing up the peak today while we were trying to get off of it. We worked hard to get to the top of South Kinsman. There we had the summit to ourselves. The view was amazing. The profiles of Mountains rolle

Day 161 Thursday August 31, 2017 Miles: 1793.8 - 1800.4.   Completed: 16.6 Time: 6:11am 7:26pm Tented inside woods at mile 1800.4 Shortcake and Black Bear We had our first big climb today since the south. It was incredible!!! Again our initial plan was to stop south of the summit at a shelter. At noon we arrived there and decided since it was so nice and also early we would push up and over Mount Moosilauke. In order to do it though I needed to cook some lunch. We were stretc

Day 154 Thursday August 24, 2017 Miles: 1680.4 - 1700.8    Completed: 20.4 Weather: not to hot and not too cold Rented at Gifford Woods State Park When we set out this morning we did not plan to do record miles for us but it just happened. Sometimes we can barely do our miles and other times we can't stop. Today was one of those days. I started a little earlier then Shortcake. I was ready, she wasn't and the morning chill had me wanting to get my blood pumping to warm up. The