The roots of the mountain

Well I made it to the base of the mountain where I spent last night. I was actually going to summit twice, once today with Noah-John and again on saturday but decided not to go up today. I should have never told Noah I would catch him because it has left me a little disabled. The story: I saw Noah on west Avery mountain at sunset (gorgeous) and it was a bit surreal. He then informed me that he was going to jump ahead via car. I told him I would catch up making up the 80+ mile difference in what is rumored as the hardest state. Well, I did catch him but due to a new pair of unbroken in shoes I will be loosing another toenail and have some major healing to do on my left big toe. Perhaps those 2 (nearly 3) 30+ mile days were a bad idea, but it was worth it. I made it to the campground and it was good to catch up with him.

As it is I have talked with Baxter state park and all of the Maine residence passes for 8/9/08 are taken. The park opens at 5am (I hope to be there at opening) so that we can get a space at Katahdin stream campground. It looks to be a partly sunny/cloudy day that day. The skuttlebut is that it would take me about 3-5 hours to do this summit alone, but Ill be burdened down with a very heavy midevil costume so more than likely it will take me about the same time as everyone else and I suspect the hike to be between 8-12hrs. So Start time of about 6am would put us back at katahdin stream campground around 4-6pm. Hope this helps for anyone hoping to show up before or after. Ill have the cellphone on over the next day or two (207-776-6306 - I think thats the # or its 207-766-6306) so give me a call.

Good times. Its amazing how fast it went by. Its about time for me to go meet a cousin who lives in town that I have not seen for many, many years. Expect a visit from the criminal looking mountain man very soon. Mwhaaaahahhaaa....

Smile

-Aaron