Not a bad spot to spend a night.
Team Nano on the Trail
For our next section of hiking, Trail Angel was able to actually hike with us. Any Friends of Nano who have followed us before know that Trail Angel is the glue that holds the whole team together. She picks us up, drops us off, makes sure we stay supplied with clean clothes and good food, and overall ensures our survival. Without her this would be a completely different and entirely less pleasant experience. I am reminded every time I come to the Trail how blessed we are to have our own personal Trail Angel - a privilege very few long distance Trail trekkers have. But sometimes when the logistics and geography line up just right, we get to have Trail Angel with us while we hike and those times are truly special.
This section of Trail didn't have any particularly formidable named peaks to conquer, but it did have something that the Maine AT is also well known for - water features. There are lots of streams, lakes and ponds on the AT in Maine, many of them very beautiful and well-loved by locals. We will encounter more of them the further north in Maine we hike, but we got a wonderful taste of some Maine mountain lakes on this hike.
The AT in Maine even has beaches!
We made camp for the night by one of these ponds. This pond is reportedly a very good place to see moose, and since seeing a moose on the Trail is one of the last creatures on my "AT Wildlife Bingo" List, I was really hoping to check that box. Alas, although we got sung to sleep by a symphony of bullfrogs, that was the only wildlife we saw at camp. Moose are notoriously elusive and even at this prime spot none made an appearance.
Suppertime at Camp Nano
Not a moose...
Overall it was a lovely stretch of Trail. We even finished our hiking early enough on the second day to get cleaned up and explore the small Trail Towns around this part of the AT. As always, stay tuned Friends of Nano. More to come.
Team Nano with 13 more miles behind us
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