New Hampshire (at last!!!!)

I'm finally out of Maine and into New Hampshire. Not that it made much difference in trail conditions, it was still raining, boggy, buggy, and slick, but it's a major milestone to have completed the first State.

In this last section of Maine we climbed a fire tower on the top of Old Speck Mountain, and hiked the reputed hardest maile of the AT, through Mahoosuc Notch. The fire tower was fun, if a little scary, and the Notch, in the pouring rain and a lightning storm was not! The reaminder of the section was just more of the same old Maine, now running into New Hampshire.

On a happier note, as we crossed our last mountain on the way down into Gorham we found a few berries left behind by a bear that had very recently. There were the usual blueberries, but also blackberries and raspberries. I helped myself to the remnants of the bear's feast. Yum!

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