Today's miles 19.3. AT miles 1663.7
It had stopped raining by the morning but remained a damp misty cool day all day. Downhill to start then a steady uphill to Bromley Mountain. The final ascent to the summit took us up a ski run, there were dormant gondolas on the summit. Down again then up to Styles Peak and then Peru Peak. Then down again. All the descents from the mountain summits were quite steep initially today.
We passed another lovely lake, Griffith Lake, there was a lot of board walking over swampy ground in that area. We continued downhill heading to Lost Pond Shelter where we had originally planned on stopping for the night. There was one small last peak thrown in on the way, Baker Peak. To get to the peak though was a climb up a steep rocky ledge, luckily it wasn't too wet and slippy. It was just after 4:30pm when we arrived at Lost Pond shelter and it was only another 1.7 miles to the next shelter so we continued a bit further to Big Branch Shelter arriving just before 5:30. There were no camping spots so we are sleeping in the shelter but with our tent inner up to keep the bugs out. The shelter is right next to the Big Branch river so there were a few mosquitoes around.
Hawk arrived not long after us. Hawk had been into town, Manchester Centre, and bought a couple of small red wine cartons which he shared with Nigel. Nigel was very happy. About 6 o'clock it started raining. Luckily the rain held off all day whilst we were hiking. I'm not sure how long it rained for into the night, the sound of the river drowned out the sound of the rain.
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