After hiking almost 1000 miles since day one of this trip we were starting to feel pretty good about our abilities. Maine now has us questioning everything as it has continued to kick our asses a second day in a row. Today started out with one of the steeper climbs of the trip but what really did us in was the second part of the day descending miles of steep rock and root covered terrain. We had to move so slowly over this stuff that we didn’t get into the campsite until after dark. There were many times in Virginia that we were able to hike at a three mile per hour pace but here in Maine we are crawling at about one mile per hour.

Wilson Valley Lean-To to West Chairback Pond 13.9 miles