Sea Dog, Pepper, Salt, Shiv, T3, and I got started around 7, heading over to the ranger station to drop everything we weren’t going to need to hike up to the summit and back on the ranger station’s porch. (This is encouraged, but not required.) We began our ascent of Katahdin, and I had probably the lightest pack I’ve ever carried this hike.
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It was awfully windy and cold last night (at least, not as cold as it was in the Smokies, though), the wind whipping my tent and even making it into the tent by blowing under the rain fly, but my sleeping bag kept me nice and warm and toasty overnight.
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Overnight, there was a fair amount of noise on my tent that sounded like rain. This morning, though, it looked dry out. I suspect instead, the wind last night was blowing pine needles off trees, and that’s what was hitting my tent.
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I got out of camp just before six this morning, and got started on my goal to make it to Jo-Mary Road, 15.4 miles ahead, by 2:30 pm for my food drop. I was cautiously optimistic this would not be a problem, because the elevation profile looked wonderful: aside from climbing 800 feet to go over Little Boardman Mountain, the whole day was a very gradual downhill.
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