View from Mt. Race
Location: US 7 / Sheffield / Jess Treat's Hostel (1520.6 miles)

I had been planning on getting up at 5:30 and leaving around 6:30, to get an early start, but I didn't actually wake up until 6:15, and didn't leave until almost 7:30. None of the rain that was forecast overnight fell, and today started off cool.

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Great Falls of the Housatonic River
Location: Brassie Brook Shelter (1503.8 miles)

I got started today around 7. A tenth of a mile later, I passed 700 miles remaining. After a nice, long, relatively flat section of trail (partially over roads), the trail began to climb Mt. Prospect. This provided a couple of nice views of a waterfall on the Housatonic River.

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Connecticut Trailmixers
Location: Belters Campsite (1489.0 miles)

I got off to a lazy 9:30 am start, and made great time on the remainder of the flat trail along the Housatonic River, before the trail veered somewhat steeply uphill, with a bit of a rock scramble, and then back downhill towards CT 4.

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View East
Location: Stony Brook Campsite (1474.3 miles)

With the weather forecast calling for rain this afternoon, and a resupply trip into Kent, CT planned, I wanted to get started early. I wound up not getting up until 7, and didn't leave camp until 8, later than I really wanted, since I stopped much further from Kent than I originally planned.

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Dover Oak
Location: Schaghticoke Mountain Campsite (1463.5 miles)

Wanting to get out of here before it got too hot, I got up at 5 am this morning. For there being no water around, the mosquitoes are awfully bad this early in the morning. I managed to get going in record time, leaving the shelter at quarter to six.

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