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Decided to go check out Turmeric’s foot today. Shuttled into town with the hostel, got breakfast, picked up Turmeric’s resupply boxes and both our sleeping bags from the post office. Buckeye drove us from there to the next in-network Urgent Care, which was a forty minute drive. Turned out better than expected; the doc told

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Got up early, watched the sunrise over the lake, then got served pancakes and coffee by Vlobster. Got out at eightish, said goodbye to Buckeye, and went on our way. Long day into Dalton, and with rain threatening, we didn’t do many breaks but hiked on and on. Little bit of mud, a lot of

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As the shelter has been really crowded this night, and just about everyone wanting to go to Goose Pond today, we wanted to get there early to get a bunk bed there. After leaving the South Mt. Wilcox Shelters really early, we were ahead of most of the people there. Leapfrogged PBJ and Chumbawamba all

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Today: Big trail magic in a church tent today. Burgers and water for hungry hikers. Buckeye came to meet us as well. Hiked on to the South Mt Wilcox Shelters, picked up Buckeye on a trailhead three miles before that. He can pretty much keep up with us at this point, which is impressive. Stayed

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Chumbawamba and PBJ decided to slackpack the next section, so we opted to do that as well. Drizzled a lot today and a lot of fog/clouds. Had two big peaks to cross, with slabby rocks and slick descents, so just having a light pack was much appreciated. Crossed into Massachusetts today. Leapfrogged PBJ and Chumbawamba

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