Today's miles 18.2. AT miles 2155.2
The 'alien' bug in my stomach didn't like my noodle dinner last night, I felt rough in the night again and on waking in the morning, such a knock back I thought I was slowly getting better yesterday. I really didn't want to hike today. We had to continue though with the trail and the 100 mile wilderness so another day feeling rough hiking. We left camp at eight. The first half of the trail today was pretty flat but with lots of tree roots and rocks to manoeuvre around which slow you down and use more energy. We should have had a couple of rivers to ford along the way but managed to stone hop across them again. The advantages of a dry weather spell.
We stopped at Wadleigh Stream Lean-to for a break and top up water. We had another small mountain, Nesuntabunt Mountain 1520ft to go over. Not being able to eat properly for the last few days the uphills are a struggle and zap all my energy so Nigel took more weight off me again. We made it up slowly and were rewarded with a great view of Mount Katahdin sixteen miles away - line of sight only - we still have thirty six miles to do!
From Nesuntabunt summit it was another five and a half miles to the next shelter, Rainbow Stream Lean-to. We decided to head there for the night as we were (or I was) hiking slower than normal and not continue another four miles further still to Rainbow Lake Campsite which was our original plan. Those last five miles to the shelter seemed to take forever, the last two especially. The majority of the last couple of miles followed alongside the quite impressive Pollywog Gorge, shame we didn't feel like appreciating it more. We arrived at the Lean-to at six. Nigel cooked pasta for dinner, I managed a few spoonfuls of the sauce, had a cup of tea then went to bed.
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