Starting location: Manchester Center, VT
Ending location: Griffith Lake
State: VT
Miles today: 10.6
Miles total: 1,652.0
Don't ask me how but Kristen somehow managed to find a Lilly store while on the AT. To her credit, Manchester is definitely not our typical trail town. Thankfully I have no major damage to report from our trip to the store this morning.
We had a pretty slow morning. Getting going after being in town is very difficult. It is not that we dread getting back on the trail but you want to take advantage of all the comforting conveniences while you have them. We managed to get a ride back to the trail head which was about 5 miles out of town. It is very important to note that many of these trail towns are not right on the trail. Without going into too much detail, we have become very resourceful when it comes to getting in and out of town.
Once on the trail, we met up with Whippersnap. Whippersnap is a very nice guy that Kristen and I like a lot. He is actually an accomplished author and has written a book called The Scenic Lookout Towers of North Carolina. Whippersnap is one of the few thru hikers that we have met that will actually take additional side trails during the day. A matter of fact, yesterday on Whippersnap's day off he went hiking. Yes I said hiking. He has hiked over 1600 miles and he is hiking non-AT trails just for fun. If Kristen and I begin to hike on our days off, someone come pick us up because we have offically lost our minds.
After a pretty short day, we set up camp on Griffith Lake. Kristen mentioned this yesterday but Vermont really has a lot of beautiful lakes and wetlands.
Bromley Mountain
Kristen washing up in Griffith Lake
Conan + Backwards
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