August 31
The leaves are starting to slowly change colors...fall will be here soon!
Even with our hour and a half stop, we did the mileage we intended and made it to Peru Peak Shelter by 6:30. Getting an earlier start in the day really makes a difference. Our goal is to be out and back on the trail every morning by 7....Sometimes we're great about it. Other days, we're lucky if we're out by 8:30. We're getting better though! We figure we should start getting up earlier, because the days will be getting shorter soon.
Getting my dog fix while hitching a ride. 
Hiding in the cairns
NotYet building a cairn
The leaves are changing colors
Hiker legs 
A view - rare in Vermont!
528.0 down, 1657.9 to go
Woo hoo! Today was our biggest mileage day yet...almost 20...19.6. We stopped 3.6 miles into our day to do a quick resupply in Wallingford. A man stopped for us after we'd been waiting for a while.
Woo hoo! Today was our biggest mileage day yet...almost 20...19.6. We stopped 3.6 miles into our day to do a quick resupply in Wallingford. A man stopped for us after we'd been waiting for a while.
We went to the Country Store and picked up some stuff. We were just about to wait for a ride again, when the man came back from dropping his trash off and walking his dog and asked if we wanted a ride back...Um, yes!
We passed by a giant cairn field. Cairns are man made rocks piled on top of each other to mark the trail, often on summits or where there aren't a lot of trees that can be marked with blazes. We remembered Unitic talking a while ago about a place in Vermont that looked like gnomes had stacked a ton of rocks. It was a cool site.
The leaves are starting to slowly change colors...fall will be here soon!
Even with our hour and a half stop, we did the mileage we intended and made it to Peru Peak Shelter by 6:30. Getting an earlier start in the day really makes a difference. Our goal is to be out and back on the trail every morning by 7....Sometimes we're great about it. Other days, we're lucky if we're out by 8:30. We're getting better though! We figure we should start getting up earlier, because the days will be getting shorter soon.
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