Done with the Whites

Day: 147 (August 19)
Starting location: Mt Moriah
Ending location: Gorham, NH
State: NH
Miles today: 5.9
Miles total: 1881.2

We woke up to an amazing sunrise at or campsite. I would have to say that our campsite last night may be my favorite spot of the whole trip. Our view was incredible!

We were on our way by 8:00 and the town gravity was really helping. We had a nice gradual 6 miles before we arrived in Gorham, NH. Once we reached US 2 we were officially finished with the White Mountains. Even though the Whites were spectacular, they were hard and to be honest we are both exhausted. Although, we hear the mountains in Southern Maine are pretty tough too!

Our first stop in town was McDonalds. We quickly scarfed down lunch and headed towards the Walmart, aka hiker heaven. While we were grocery shopping we met a former thru hiker who hiked back in 2000. After chatting for a while he handed us $60 in cash and told us he wanted to pay for our hotel room in town for the night. Talk about trail magic! The random acts of kindess never cease to amaze us out here on the trail! We can't wait until we can pay it forward to thru hikers in the furture.

We headed to Mr. Pizza for dinner where we planned on meeting up with Supermax and Fig. We hadn't seen them in over 900 miles so hopefully we get to hike with them in the coming days.

After dinner we spotted a putt putt course and we both sprinted over to the first tee. We are both pretty competitive so it was a fierce match. After an intense 18 holes, Jason came out victorious by only one stroke. I am waiting for my rematch!



At the golf course



Are you putting down the right scores?


They also had batting cages!

Conan + Backwards