Day 1
2024-08-01
10.4 miles completed
Day 1 is in the books! I’ve officially hit “day hiker” status. Give me a few more days and it’ll be like I’m on a weekend trip!
I started out the day with a fantastic breakfast at Shaw’s Hostel of eggs, bacon, homefries and pancakes. About 30 other people stayed at the hostel last night and I think I was about one of 3 who did their first miles today.
The plan for today was to hike from Monson, ME to the Wilson Valley Lean-to, 10.4 miles up the trail. Weather was perfect and I spent the day hiking with a Drybones, Nope, Average Guy, and Titan. They’ve all been in the trail for months and already have their trail names. I’m in no rush to have mine given to me or for me to come up with a fitting one, but it has felt lame introducing myself as Ben to everyone.
Tomorrow i should hit the first of the Chairback mountains, the first big climb of the trail!
I do have a short YouTube video made for today but I don’t want to waste battery on the upload out here so I’ll probably wait til I hit town again which won’t be for 9-12 days. I will keep trying to upload this text posts as service allows.
Peace!