Day 38 - Kay Wood Shelter

​Day 38 - Kay Wood Shelter

Starting location: Upper Goose Pond

Ending location: Kay Wood Shelter

Mileage today: 18.2 miles 

Total Mileage: 423.8 miles 

Miles from Springer: 1573.8 miles

Miles to Katadin: 624.3 miles 

Today’s Photo

The story behind this photo ... 

Today was the morning the boys had been looking forward to for a few days! Pancake breakfast at the Upper Goose Pond Cabin and they were not disappointed! They were delicious with soft spreadable butter and gallons of maple syrup! Legolas ate 3 and Bombadil at 2. 

We got on the trail by 7:30 am. We have a long day ahead doing our biggest mileage yet! 18.2 miles. Yikes. Thankfully it was relatively “flat” without a bunch of big ups and downs, but still it was hot and humid. Probably mid 80’s I imagine. 

We resupplied with Amee pretty early on and got right back on the trail. 

Right before lunch we came upon this sign in the forest. Bombadil earlier said he wished we could get trail magic and God answered his prayer big time! 

Frosty, a trail angel, was at a road crossing. He had tons of food! CJ had chocolate milk, mixed nuts and chili cheese Fritos, Lucas had the same thing except the mixed nuts. I had two things of mixed nuts and 2 hard boiled eggs! Very thankful he had low carb options! We took some pop tarts to go for breakfast. 

This is Frosty. He even had a tent to sit in with chairs and fans. It was very nice!

After lunch we had a 2 mile walk to the northern cookie lady. She was extremely nice. She had a blueberry farm as well. We had some chocolate chip cookie and some very sweet hibiscus tea. It was very refreshing. See the picture at the top! We topped off our water and had 9 more miles to get to the shelter! 

We got into the shelter at 6:05 pm. The latest yet. Fixed dinner and got stuff ready for bed. The boys got as a reward of hiking so far to watch some Ryan Trehan. 

Off to bed and a short 11.9 miles tomorrow 

Good night. 

Gandalf, Legolas & Bombadil