Reunion

Day: 148 (August 20)
Starting location: Gorham, NH
Ending location: Gentian Pond Shelter
State: NH
Miles today: 11.8
Miles total: 1,893.0

Before heading out of town, we made one last stop at the local McDonalds. We heard that Gorham was the last place for fast food on the entire trail so we certainly were going to take advantage. We also made a stop by the local outfitters to get extra fuel and water treatment.

We got a ride to the trailhead which was about 3.5 miles out of town. We heard that the trail actually used to go right through Gorham but was relocated to remain the woods. The ATC has made steps to remove the trail from going right through towns. Personally we are not sure why the ATC would want to do that. We enjoy when the trail goes through town and that it makes resupplying and getting in and out of town much easier. Anyway, we got on the trail in the late afternoon and had a pretty easy hike to the first shelter out of town.

Over the past two days we have seen a lot of hikers that we hadn't seen in a long time. Last night we saw Supermax and Fig and today at the shelter we met up with Skippy and Tree. Skippy and Tree are two of our most favorite people on the trail and it was so great to see them. We hadn't seen Tree since the middle of Virginia and we hadn't seen Skippy since southern Pennsylvania. It is amazing how you can walk hundreds of miles without seeing someone. Hopefully we can hike together for awhile and possibly summit together.

Tomorrow we will enter our 14th and final state. Maine here we come.

Conan + Backwards