Moose Mountain Shelter 1758.6

Of course it rained during the night and we got wet in our tent!! But it wasn't as bad as last time because it just rained for a short period of time. Still especially my sleeping bag got wet at the feet part somehow...
But that wasn't going to ruin our town day. So we had a long downhill with a miles stretch of road walking until we reached the bridge over Connecticut River. This river also marks the border between Vermont and New Hampshire - so we're now in our 13th state :) Right at the border sign was already some trail magic waiting for us with tasty cookies for breakfast.

After we've reached the city center, Julia wrote a friend of hers that we are in town. Because she contacted her lately and said that she lives in the area and we could meet. So Heidi arrived a little bit later with freshly homemade Mac and cheese and chocolate muffins!! What a wonderful surprise :) We've had a conversation for some time and it was really nice to talk with her. Hopefully we'll see her again somewhere in the world.
At "Lous", a local bakery, thru hikers get a free donut and at another place a free slice of pizza!! So far this has been the most hiker friendly town and I guess it'll be hard to beat.

At the end of the day we've also hiked a bit ;) And we did that quite fast because of some pizza we found in a trail magic box. So we managed to run up to Mount Moose for the night. There a surprise waited for us, Katrin, the German girl that we met on the first day on the trail, was there. She skipped 500 miles because she got tired of Virginia.Read more