Camping Shore Nahmakanta Lake 2148.9

Today's height profile looked really flat so we wanted to push so we can probably summit Kathadin already on Wednesday. And it actually was a easy and fast hike for most of the day. We've already made 10 miles in the morning when we came to a gravel road crossing. It was unbelievable but halfway through the 100 mile wilderness there was trail magic!! A father was visiting his son who is hiking the trail and planning to summit at the end of the week. So he decided to do an amazing trail magic there. We were so happy as we didn't take enough snacks with us to get some sweet stuff. There was even a hiker box where previous hikers dropped food that they wouldn't need. So we were able to resupply a few things to make our life easier :)
After getting some snacks there (amongst them even beef jerky and orange juice :)) we hurried to get back on the trail. We hiked another two hours to a pond to grab lunch. There we finally met "Juan Gone", a thru hiker from Mexico that we've been told about by "Stick in the woods" back in Massachusetts!! Julia was happy to speak some proper Spanish ;) He and his tramily is taking is slowly for summiting Kathadin so they were just going a few miles further to swim at another pond.

In the afternoon we slowed down because the terrain got more rooty and uneven. After 25 miles we reached a pretty large campsite right next to a big lake.Read more