Julie and I are hiking the Appalachian Trail in the US from Springer Mt, Georgia, to Mt Katahdin, Maine, in the north, a distance of almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km). Our journey will start in early May 2023 and is expected to take about five months. We will be mostly camping, carrying 3-5 days of supplies to get us between resupply points, where we will be staying in hostels/hotels/motels where we can. I hiked the entire Appalachian Trail back in 1986 so it will be interesting to see how much has changed and how much it has stayed the same.

Appalachian Trail - Day 131 - Day Off in Rangeley

Day: 131

Date: Saturday, 02 September 2023

Start:  ME Route 17 (AT Mile 1964.9) but staying in Rangeley.

Finish:  ME Route 17 (AT Mile 1964.9) but staying in Rangeley.

Daily Kilometres:  0

GPX Track:  Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos from her walk this afternoon.

Total Kilometres:  3195.9

Weather:  Mild and sunny

Accommodation:  Motel

Nutrition:

  Breakfast:  Breakfast burritos

  Lunch:  Steak & cheese sub & fries/Chicken & bacon salad & fries.

  Dinner:  Nachos/Burger & fries, ice-cream & peach pie.

Aches:  Dave - the usual niggles; Julie - stiff neck and swelling and bruising on forehead from fall two days ago.

Highlight:  None really.

Lowlight:  None really.

Pictures: Click here

Map and Position: Click here for Google Map

Journal:

A lazy sleep-in morning followed by some time working out a revised schedule for our remaining 2+ weeks hiking, before we walked downtown for an overpriced breakfast at a local cafe.

After that, we wandered along to the Rangeley Trail Festival which was pleasantly low-key with a few stalls, some entertainment and speakers in the morning sunshine.

We picked up some supplies there along with replacement shoes for Julie (last pair didn't last long) then walked to the town supermarket and bought our supplies for the next few days and some lunch.

In the afternoon, Julie went for a walk around the nearby lake while Dave did some admin with track and field from Zurich and college football games on TV in the background.

Our French-Canadian thru-hiker friends arrived in town late in the afternoon and checked into our motel and later we walked downtown to the pub for a very pleasant dinner with them.

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