10% done!

(This was meant to be published 2 weeks ago... but other stuff got in the way.  Too much fun in Toronto.)

We rolled into Rangeley, ME yesterday and by reaching the Piazza lean-to the night before, we completely 10% of the entire AT (218 miles)!  It is one of the most difficult 10% section of the trail, and when compounded by the fact that we were still getting used to hiking and getting our "trail legs", it was quite a challenge.  We went up quite a few mountains on our way to Rangeley, including Sugarloaf (second highest peak in ME and the mountain that is home to the famous ski area), Saddleback (another ski mountain), Saddleback Jr., the Horn of Saddleback, Mt. Abraham, Spaulding, the Crocker mountains, and Pleasant.

We had been hiking with a group of kids from Outward Bound, as long as a group of girls from Camp Aloha for most of the section from Stratton to Rangeley.  We also ran into a couple from RI who were just car camping and kept us fed with bacon, potatoes, s'mores, kielbasa, french toast, and ice-cold beer!  They were a ton of fun to hang out with and were hard to leave.

When we got to Rangeley, our good friend Mike drove up from Boston and picked us up.  On our way back, we stopped at the Chop Shop Pub, as it was the closest place we found for pizza on Yelp and it had four stars!  It was our scheduled time to get off the trail as ohMEGA has to get visa stuff squared away for school and Reboot has to defend his masters.  Reboot is going to get back on in about 2 weeks and will pick up where the trail was left off.  Until then, happy trails!