View from Styles Peak
Location: Brooklyn Rd (1668.3 miles)

We left camp the hotel around 7:30, and it took us about 40 minutes to drive to the north end of today's hike to drop Rainbow off. We briefly scouted for campsites, but didn't find much of anything beyond the parking lot. In an effort to make camp more efficient, Papa Monkey and I took out tents with us, so we'd be able to get set up while waiting for Rainbow to arrive. Also, the weather forecast was calling for a 60% chance of showers, so we would be able to get into our tents and stay out of the rain.

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View from Stratton Mountain Fire Tower
Location: VT 11-VT 30 / Manchester Center / Red Sled Motel (1650.7 miles)

As predicted, our tents were quite wet in the morning. Mine had collected so much condensation inside that it was dripping off the rainfly into my tent, getting the tent floor and my sleeping bag wet.

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Swamp
Location: Stratton-Arlington Rd (1633.2 miles)

I got up around 5:45, and Rainbow and I left the parking lot at the VT 9 trailhead a bit after 6, heading for the Stratton-Arlington Rd trailhead, 22.6 trail miles north, to hike south. Papa Monkey left the parking lot heading north right before I got up, giving him a head start on us.

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Breakfast
Location: VT 9 (1610.6 miles)

Papa Monkey dropped Rainbow and myself off at the laundromat in Vernon, while he attended to some personal business. After he was finished, we went to the Vernon Diner, before beginning the process of heading back to the trail.

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Veterans War Memorial Tower
Location: VT 9 (fill-in gap between Greylock and MA 2) / Vernon CT (1610.6 miles)

I was hoping that my shovel had fallen out in Papa Monkey's car yesterday in the shuffle, but quick search didn't turn up anything, so I'm definitely going to need to buy a new one.

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