{"id":1050,"date":"2014-08-21T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/wordpress-happytrails\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2014-08-21T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:27:54","slug":"day-128-near-pinkham-notch-to-mile-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/happytrails\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Day 128 – near Pinkham Notch to mile 1882"},"content":{"rendered":"

After much nicer night in our improved campsite, we got up and almost immediately began the climb up to the Wildcat Mountains. The first trail, up to Wildcat Peak E, was very steep, but didn’t have any major scrambles. <\/p>\n

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Nearly vertical rock on Wildcats<\/p><\/div>\n

We made it up and ate a snack by the Wildcat ski lift \/ gondola while a nearby construction dude assembled part of a snowmaking machine. We went over a few of the other Wildcat Peaks and then descended to our last hut, Carter Notch. The crew didn’t have any leftovers, but we managed to barter us carrying a handwritten letter for a large piece of a blueberry cake. One of the girls working at the hut wanted to send a secret<\/em> letter to the caretaker named “Young Bobby” at a campsite about 7 miles up the trail. I thought it was funny that the workers here in the Whites have to fall back to old school letters to communicate since cell coverage is so bad. We took our leave with the letter to Young Bobby in hand and climbed up Carter Dome. We didn’t think this climb was too bad despite being quite steep, also. We had some other mountains to traverse in the afternoon called the Carter Mountains and one called Height Mountain. We had some great views of the other mountains from them. <\/p>\n

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There was a pretty tough climb with a number of scrambles to get down from the Carters. We delivered the letter to the Imp campsite (Young Bobby was not there, but the other caretaker promised to give it to him) and then continued on. We intended to camp below Moriah Mountain, but couldn’t find anything good. We pressed on and climbed over the summit. We had nice late evening views as we went over it. <\/p>\n

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Moriah Mountain view<\/p><\/div>\n

We found a tight camp spot part way down the descent. We are now roughly 5 miles from Gorham and are pretty much done with the Whites. Craziness. <\/p>\n

Vital stats for Thursday, August 21st :<\/strong>
\nMiles hiked today – 15.8
\nMood – psyched that we got through the Whites, excited to have time off tomorrow and Saturday to recover
\nPhysical state – beat, without a doubt this has been our hardest section of the AT thus far and there’s not even a remotely close second
\nSmell – Outback bloomin’ onion soaked in ammonia and vinegar
\nSong stuck in my head – Don’t You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds<\/p>\n

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