Day 50 - Tucker Johnson Shelter
Starting location: Gov Clement Shelter
Ending location: Tucker Johnson Shelter
Mileage today: 12 miles
Total Mileage: 560.7 miles
Miles from Springer: 1709.7 miles
Miles to Katahdin: 488.30 miles
Today’s Photo
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Happy Father’s Day to all who are fathers reading this blog. I am blessed to have such amazing boys that hiked for 50 days and 560.7 miles without any complaining (at least not out loud. lol.).
Today we woke up and put on our still wet pants and shoes and started our accent of Killington.
So this is what my toe looked like when I woke up. I knew something was wrong when I captured the lost shoe from the river but I thought it might clear up over night. Not so much. I still put on my shoes and thankfully they padded my foot enough to hike the 11 miles up and over Killington Mountain. This would’ve our highest mountain yet. 4,250 ft above sea level!
As we were climbing Killington, it became more and more foggy, which was pretty exciting and spooky for the boys. Also it was so peaceful and quiet.
The trail to Killington’s peak is a 0.2 mile blue blaze off the AT. It was basically straight up boulder after boulder. It was tough but very rewarding.
Even though it was fog covered the boys were so proud to summit their first 4k mountain. We explored just a little bit but couldn’t find an actual summit sign. Bummer.
So then we hiked about 6-7 miles downhill to Amee and Froning waiting in the parking lot.
Now my foot don’t hurt to bad hiking uphill, but downhill made it hurt worse.
When we got back to Amee, we decided to get my foot x-rayed since if I broke my metatarsal then that would be much more serious than just a broken toe.
Obviously after hiking 11 miles the bruising had gotten worse. So we found an urgent care (not ER worthy) and got it checked out.
Thankfully, it was only a broken toe. My first broken bone. It is the crack on my second toe in the xray. So the doc said some rest, ice and elevation should do the trick.
So we are now going to hang up the AT adventure for some new ones. We reserved a week of campsites at Acadia NP and plan to drive there tomorrow. After the week there we plan to visit the Nuland’s and explore a day in Boston. Finally travel down to Washington DC to camp for a few days to visit the Nation’s capital during the 250 yr birthday celebration. Unfortunately we won’t be there for the 4th of July, but we have done that before and it’s a madhouse. lol
So going to read and enjoy the last night on the trail!
Gandalf, Legolas & Bombadil.
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