We made it!!

We finally finished our whole through hike! From Springer Mt in Georgia, 2,181 miles to Katahdin in Maine. Took us 6 months and 6 days.

Rangeley, ME

Outside the Town and Lake Motel in Rangeley, ME. Soaking up the beautiful day in 50ish degree weather! Also, enjoying some duck friends and watching the pontoon planes take off over the lake.

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Franconia Ridge!

In the white mountains in New Hampshire!

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Whites!

Here is so pictures of our first mountain in the whites! First mountain I've ever climbed above treeline! (Austin has done many) we had a beautiful day up top. But it was very windy and very cold. The view was much better then the pictures show. I think they are grey cause the wind.... maybe.

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New England Fun!

Sorry I haunt written in so long. We have been keeping pretty busy and had some rough spots and some awesome spots. We hit some really hot weather in Connecticut so we had to slow down and take it easy for awhile. Then right after the heat wave ended we were hit with a few days of rain. So it made pushing to Mass to meet my parents a little difficult. So they met us early and we had a great time. We were still pretty tired from pushing hard to met them after our set backs so we were glad to hike slow with them for a few days. Took some zeros after they left to finish up the resting and then back on the trail!
At the end of Mass we got some awesome trail magic from a guy who we got a hitch into town from. He took us to the outfitter, to eat, and took us to what he thought was a better trail up mt. greylock, which was where we were headed next. The trail put us at a shelter close to the top so gravity was able to go see the sunrise in the morning. Me and austin made it up shortly after thinking the whole mountain was covered in fog. Turns out the summit was above the fog so we got a beautiful view of the top of the clouds.
A few days later we were in Vermont! We followed the long trail for about 105 miles and met alot of LT hikers. We heard about a warming hut that was on top of on of the mountains we were climbing that was also a ski mountain in the winter. We planned to stay there cause a bad storm was rolling in. By the time we got to the top the fog was so thick we could only see about 40 feet in front of us at most. And the wind was starting to kick up pretty strong. But the warming hut was full of 30 highschool kids on a trip and there was no room for us. The storm was about to hit and the sun was about to go down so we ended up opening a storage shed and climbing in there for the night with our friend Boom. Turned out to be a great place to sleep.
Vermont has turned out to be a beautiful state if we can get through all the "vermud" as its called. The trial is just covered in really deep mud in some places. Yesterday didn't help at all because it rained all day the night before then all day yesterday and into the morning today. When austin and I woke up yesterday we decided we didn't feel like walking in the rain so we took a zero in our tent. It turned out to be a great idea! We had a great time laying around and reading all day. Then this morning we packed up and headed on in the rain. By 3:00 the sun came out and we stopped to dry out everything we had. We are going to head into Hanover New Hampshire tomorrow, which means we will be in our second to last state!

O and the picture is of us as we crossed the 500 miles left mark! And us at the Vermont Mass border.

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New York, New York

Sadly Gravity is no longer hiking with us for the time being. A few days ago he got sick and was really dragging. He decided it was best to get off and get checked out by a doctor. Normally we would have gotten off with him but we were on a time limit to meet up with phlegms parents. So we parted ways for now, he should be catching up with us at some point.

The day before we met with phlegms parents we had a big day planned and all day we were worried how we were going to get the 3 miles from the trail to the motel because we were already hiking 22 miles that day. Then 5 miles from the end of the day we stopped by a road and found a cooler filled with water left by a nice couple. Water by the roads have been pretty common because water is hard to come by in this area and its been really hot. This cooler had cards in it from the people who left it with their number in it inviting hikers to come stay with them. We decided to call and ask them if they could just drive us into town. When we called they said we would be happier staying with them and they came to pick us up. They had a wonderful house and they offered for us to take showers, do our laundry, and they made us dinner. They grilled us steak asparagus and eggplant and they made extra so we could all have our fill. Their names where john and Susan and they were some of the nicest people we have met. And they refused to take any money from hikers.

The next day we took a zero and spent the day with phlegms parents. They were wonderful! They brought us up some awesome food from NYC and we had a picnic. They also drove us around and helped us run all our town errands. Phlegm was very excited to see them.

But then the heat wave hit.... the temp went up into the high 90s with a heat index of 110. It made it very hard to hike. We struggled to do miles that would normally be easy. (But we did get to hike through a section of trail that went through a zoo.) So we decided to cut our days down to very short days to wait out the heat. Today we only did 8 miles and stopped early in a field next to a road. We were able to order pizza and we had a great time relaxing for most of the afternoon. We did however get a surprise when a guy in a pick-up came and did a bunch of doughnuts in the field kicking up a huge dust cloud and driving off. It wasn't 5 minutes before he came back and said he was sorry and didn't see us before. It was very odd.

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We love New Jersey!

First day in NJ and I saw a bear! Austin didn't get to see it tho cause he was a bit ahead of me. But it has been beautiful so far! Wonderful views, nice lakes, pretty little ponds.
We camped at Mahican Outdoor Center lastnight and tonight we are at Bren Anderson Shelter. Making our way to meet up with parents :)

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