September 23 - Long Pond Lean-to (Day 188 – milepoint 2060.8)

Another FAT breakfast, a warm farewell to the Pie Lady and to our final trail town.

I’ve just learned that Spice had a considerably more interesting stay in Monson than the rest of us. Seems he got a ride into town the other day from a nice local girl with whom he apparently hit it off because she was later searching for him around town with a huge ham sandwich she had made him.

Well, she eventually found him and Spice was absent for the rest of the afternoon and for Monday Night Football last night. We were all teasing him for most of the evening since we arrived to the shelter… until he spoke:

“Say what you want, guys, but none of you have ever had a ham sandwich that good.”

We entered the Hundred Mile Wilderness today. Only 99.4 miles to Katahdin.

Aquaholic