- Jeff Walden: Stratton to Andover: switchback (n): a trail feature not found in Maine
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June 27 (7.3; 195.1 total, 1978.9 to go; -7.7 from pace, -89.9 overall) The next morning I wake up, finish off the second pound of strawberries and apple juice I?d purchased yesterday, add some photos to the first trail journal post. Incidentally, the laptop the hostel has for our use is running Firefox 2; I download and run the install program for Firefox 3 (released to the masses during my time hiking, and with a world record to its name, no less!) to find ? gasp! ? that the laptop is running that marvel of stability, Windows ME, while Firefox 3 requires Windows 2000/XP or newer. No upgrade for this machine! :- No Unicode love for the Firefox 2 users, either. I then hit the trail with the Honeymooners at around 9:30 or so. I immediately confirm a fact I?d suspected yesterday: I bought way too much food when I did my shopping on an empty stomach. Best of all, we?re starting to hit the more mountainous part of Maine, and my pace becomes abysmal. Today I?d planned to hike to Spaulding Mountain Lean-to, a distance of 13.5 miles. Instead, I reach the Crocker Cirque (fun fact: the word cwm is defined by the official Scrabble dictionary as ?cirque?; view original article
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