For breakfast, microwave Asian soup bowls. (They work if you just add boiling water and wait a couple minutes.) Also, hot coffee! Then tender farewells.
Up from our camp on an impressive set of switchbacks. The trail creators brag (on a sign) that the maximum grade is 10%. It's a nice, easy way to rise.
Later trail is less magnanimous:
Some nice views today:
And a spooky garbage pile, with a torso:
Such little quirks aside, it's a great hiking day, with perfect weather and good trail through Sugar Hill State Forest. There are probably a lot of sugar maples around here, or were, but we see mostly pines and make camp in a pine plantation a bit north of the trail. The needles make for a very comfortable bed.
From our site, we spy a lone hiker pass us by, maybe heading to one of the many shelters around here for the night. He might have been behind us all day. This trail is so underpopulated that we almost want to run up and say hello... nah, we prefer to hide out alone in the tent and enjoy our little vices.
J 100 260 365 450 540
D -15 35 85 95 165
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