July 21
84.2 down, 2101.7 to go
Today is the first day of our second week! It's gone by so fast already. We started the day with the dehydrated eggs and bacon we got from the marathon runner at Antlers a few days ago. The eggs were foamy and delicious. We started on our White Cap Climb, which we had heard was the hardest climb in the wilderness. There were four "mountains" to climb up and back down, for a total of 7 miles, with a lot of "stairs," which are really rocks placed strategically on a steep uphill. The view from White Cap mountain was beautiful. It was nice seeing the opposite of what we saw from Katahdin. We finished all the hills and got to where we were going to stay for the night, Carl's Lean To, and felt so great we decided to keep going. We must finally be getting into shape and used to our packs. Today, we saw a moose eating right off the trail at Gulf Hagos Mountains. He stayed for a while eating just looking at us. We are trying to make it out of the wilderness soon, ready to be done! NotYet says the air today is "crisp and cold and breezy like fall." As I (Billy) was writing in the journal tonight, NotYet was pumping water and I turned around in the tent because I heard a noise outside...a moose was staring into our tent from four feet away! Needless to say, I FROZE. Unlike I thought, he didn't trample over the tent and tear into it with his teeth and eat me whole...He just walked away.
Today is the first day of our second week! It's gone by so fast already. We started the day with the dehydrated eggs and bacon we got from the marathon runner at Antlers a few days ago. The eggs were foamy and delicious. We started on our White Cap Climb, which we had heard was the hardest climb in the wilderness. There were four "mountains" to climb up and back down, for a total of 7 miles, with a lot of "stairs," which are really rocks placed strategically on a steep uphill. The view from White Cap mountain was beautiful. It was nice seeing the opposite of what we saw from Katahdin. We finished all the hills and got to where we were going to stay for the night, Carl's Lean To, and felt so great we decided to keep going. We must finally be getting into shape and used to our packs. Today, we saw a moose eating right off the trail at Gulf Hagos Mountains. He stayed for a while eating just looking at us. We are trying to make it out of the wilderness soon, ready to be done! NotYet says the air today is "crisp and cold and breezy like fall." As I (Billy) was writing in the journal tonight, NotYet was pumping water and I turned around in the tent because I heard a noise outside...a moose was staring into our tent from four feet away! Needless to say, I FROZE. Unlike I thought, he didn't trample over the tent and tear into it with his teeth and eat me whole...He just walked away.
What? You didn't grab your camera and shoot the moose?
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