{"id":912,"date":"2014-07-26T19:55:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/wordpress-happytrails\/?p=912"},"modified":"2014-07-26T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T23:55:56","slug":"day-102-salisbury-ct-to-near-jug-end-mile-1511-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/happytrails\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Day 102 – Salisbury, CT to near Jug End (mile 1511.5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We ate breakfast at Maria’s house this morning. She gives hikers 3 eggs each, toast, coffee, and fruit. She set everything out for us to make it ourselves. So freaking cute. Here she is with her friend Stefania. <\/p>\n

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Maria is wearing white<\/p><\/div>\n

After breakfast and a bunch of chatting, she then gave us a ride back to the trail head so we didn’t have to road walk. It was around 10am by then, so it was much later than we’d like to have started, but it was well worth it because Maria is so awesome. <\/p>\n

The hike was pretty nice today. Other than a tiny sprinkle of rain around lunch, the weather was perfect. We had some nice views from Bear Mountain and then later a lot of good ones from Mt. Race as we crossed into Massachusetts. <\/p>\n

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View from Mt. Race<\/p><\/div>\n

We also went through an area called Sage’s Ravine, which was really pretty. It had some falls and other scenery that reminded me of the falls trail in Rickett’s Glen State Park in PA. <\/p>\n

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Sage's Ravine <\/p><\/div>\n

We later had a pretty good climb up Mt. Everett. It was fairly steep and rocky and I think indicative of some of the more challenging mountains to come in the near future. The elevation is also getting slightly higher now, as the climbs today were finally back up over 2000 feet in elevation for the first time since PA. We can also faintly see some of the bigger mountains off in the distance now to the north, which is so exciting. <\/p>\n

Due to the late start, we didn’t get quite as far as we would have liked. We should be able to make it up pretty easily in the next few days, though. We found a nice breezy stealth spot up near a vista called the Jug End. Tomorrow we continue the trek through Massachusetts. <\/p>\n

Vital stats for Saturday, July 26th :<\/strong>
\nMilestone – done with Connecticut, now in Massachusetts (10 down, 4 to go!). Also, 1500 miles hiked.
\nMiles hiked today – 15.8
\nMood – excellent
\nPhysical state – good
\nSmell – straight up DEET (lots of mosquito up in here)
\nSong stuck in my head – see awesomeness below
\nRap –
\nEvery 500 miles
\nI drop some dope freestyles
\nI usually rap on a log
\nto a frog but not on the blog
\nBut for fifteen hundo
\nI’m giving you my thundo
\nSo I ain’t got no streets
\nTo drop all my dope beats
\nI just got gnarly trails
\nFilled wit bears, snakes, n snails
\nSo just got 600 left to go
\nTo work on my rap flow
\nBy the time I be on Katahdin
\nYa head be weaving and bobbin
\nSome of deez mountains be so sheer
\nWhen we climb we ain’t got no fear
\nGonna be a rapper for ma next career
\nPeace out, time to grab a beer<\/p>\n

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