I'm back in the North East! Last night I crossed the NY-CT border and spent the night yet again illegally camped along the at. Well I guess my saying of "its only illegal if you get caught" still holds true. The guy I was walking with, Noah-John, is taking 3 days off to go to a Pearl Jam concert and soak in a hot tub so its back to walking solo for the time being. I was up at 5:20 am this morning and hiked to Kent, CT by 11am. I was going to push it another 10 miles but lo and behold...Mr Hall is camping in this town tonight so its time to take a half day. Its feels so sinful like in school when those teacher's workshop days happened. Yippee!
After having two of Noah's friends out on the trail hiking (and breaking on the trail) I can safely say that its a good thing for people to only plan on doing Katahdin with me. Noah's friends are marathon runners and extreme sports people and they were pretty worse for wear after 2-4 days each. Their presence however has had me renamed: "Sir Bacon". This name stems from the Sir Francis Bacon (Noah thought he was a scientist. Oops the real bacon was a philosophisor I think) and that I've been consuming those "real" bacon bits packets like they are going out of business...two unrelated reasons but they work. To the end of eating bacon almost daily my resting heart rate is 48 and the heart rate after a 4 mile jog up 1000ft elevation was 80.
There are just over 722 miles left to the end point so my expected ETA to climb for Kathahdin is going to be 8/9/08. That is a Saturday and anyone who summit with me or ahead of me is welcome. I may have to hike to the summit in my renaissance costume since I have a fancy new name (and I don't think its ever been done before.) I would mention that if your going to camp in Baxter State Park you might want to get reservations soon as they tend to fill up pretty quickly in July and August.
A few people I met yesterday have also inspired me to look into this "Ironman" challenge. After this little walk is over perhaps Ill start looking into/training for that.
Well I need to be off the library closes in 5 min. Be well and see you all soon!
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Bacon is credited with developing the scientific method, so although not trained as a scientist, he created the field, so to speak. Are those bacon bits sold in the package for salads that you are eating? Ugh. Maybe I should put some good old Maine dried fish into the next package!
U.S. athletes would likely be straining
If, on the AT, they were training.
Were hiking added to the mix
Of sports at the Olympics,
Why, in Beijing, Aaron would be reigning.
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