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 Monson, ME Over 2,000 miles!
I am sitting at the local hostel trying to eat my 13th taco at the all you can eat taco night. I just checked my heart rate and it is about 90 beats per minute trying to metabolize all of the food. I am getting ready to head back out on the trail tomorrow afternoon and heading into the 100 mile wilderness.( The 100-Mile Wilderness is the section of the Appalachian Trail running between Abol Bridge just south of Baxter State Park and Monson, Maine, USA. It is often considered the wildest section of the Appalachian Trail. This section of the A.T. is crossed by several logging roads and is maintained by the Maine Appalachian Trail Club. It consists of a small corridor of protected wilderness surrounded by large tracts of public and private land controlled by paper companies (WIKI) I have been looking forward to this stretch of trail for some time now and look forward to the five days that I plan on it taking me.
Things are going well for me as I plan on summiting Katahdin on the 28th (Mount Katahdin (USGS name) is the highest mountain in Maine. Called Katahdin by people local to the peak and by the Penobscot Indians: the term means "The Greatest Mountain") It is 5,267 feet (1,606 m) and takes the average person about 12 hours to summit and return. Then I am pretty excited not to live in the woods for a while. Well… I am pretty sure I will still live in the woods from time to time but I am looking forward to road walking. It will be a whole new world for The Earth Expedition as I will have to stealth camp all over the place now that I don’t have established campsites and shelters. I kind of look forward to it for I am sure I will meet more people and have more interesting stories for you to read. Only time will tell.
 Well… The next time you will hear from me will be in 7 days and I will be in Millinocket which is the closest town close to Katahdin. Once I enter the 100 mile wilderness I am basically off the grid until I reappear on the other side. See you on the other side my friends “Life to the Fullest” Daren (Vagabond)
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