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Got up early again, and out of camp as well. Had a food drop arranged with Shaw’s at Jo Mary Road, so we had to be on time. Got to the drop off place an hour early, relaxed for a bit, dried shoes and socks. When Poet arrived, we dumped our resupply into the packs,

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Last significant mountain in the wilderness coming up today. Was an easier one, were on White Cap before noon. Got our first view of Katahdin from there. Looks like a big one. Extremely faint in the haze though. Walked here all the way from Georgia, and now we’ll be there in a few days. Got

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Left Cloud Pond early and started the day with some deceptively strenuous sections. No big climbs, but a lot of smaller up and downs. Very picturesque swampy sections as well. In the afternoon came to the West Branch Pleasant River crossing, which could have been one of the bad ones. After arriving we saw that

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Packed up, and got breakfast. Coffee, eggs, bacon, potatoes, blueberry pancakes. Did say some goodbyes to people zeroing/getting out later there (Corndog, Siren, Neo, Mudbag, Sunshade). Got our food drop bucket to the right people, then off out of Monson. Did road walk out of town and connected back to the trail quite a bit

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Started the day at 4:15, to have enough time to get to Monson today. Word on the trail is that the upcoming river crossing was up to people necks yesterday. Not a thing to do out here after heavy rain. Did an unavoidable smaller crossing together with Pony and Queso, which only came up to

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