Therese Marie

I’m sitting 114 miles from Katahdin

in an iconic hostel named Shaw’s. I truly do mean iconic. It’s full of hikers, the shower is delightful, the price is right, and the breakfast is epic. This morning I started playing guitar with Karate Kid and 7 other hikers picked up instruments. We had a big jam circle, which can be seen here.

Now I smell new, I feel refreshed, and I’m drinking my second mug of hot chocolate.

Life is pretty dope.

So how HAVE things been going?

It’s been a little while since I gave you the updates on how the hike is currently going so here’s some stuff you might like to know:

• Southern Maine was a BITCH But I loved it. We could only do 10 mile days and things moved very slow. We went through Mahoosic Notch, which I’ll write more about in another post.
• The WEATHER HAS BEEN AMAZING. 60s during the day, down into the 40s at night, always sunny, always starry, totally perfect.
• I’ve been catching the most amazing sunsets because every day has been so chill
• Look at this. 
• And freaking THIS! This night was so awesome because we went over the Bigelows which are the last super huge mountains until Kathadin, and I got to the last peak to find all my friends curled up together eating dinner as the sun set. It was a most amazing ending to a difficult day.
• I hiked 22 miles in one freakin’ day which is a huge deal for these teeny tiny legs, especially because I didn’t leave until 9am.
• We had to ride in a canoe to cross a river because it is literally life threatening to ford it. 
• I drank my first Moxie! ….and enjoyed it.
• We watched Heavy Metal in the hostel last night and I haven’t laughed so much in a long time.

So now I decompress and get ready to recompress and then keep hiking.

Tomorrow?

The Hundred Mile Wilderness.

(Or as Carleton would say, the Hundred Mile Chillderness)

Six days of walking with a heavy heavy pack to the base of Katahdin. 

And then that’s it.

Fly on! 

Lil Wayne