Saturday, August 23, 2025. Up at 7:40. Mid 70s, sunny and breezy.
Did our route plan for the rest of the trip. Headed to breakfast at a highly recommended local truck stop then onto Millinocket. Should be there about 1:00.
We decided to cut out the first 2 days in the HMW. They are big mountains and we would have to do the nastiest in the rain. I hiked both those sections last year, so no problem here. This also lets us do an average of 14-15 mile days which also means we don’t need to do a resupply in the HMW. Should finish at Baxter Park on Friday afternoon.
We got to the Hundred Mile Wilderness Inn in Millinocket in the mid-afternoon. This is a nice little house that has been turned into a hostel. I stayed here last year and really liked it. Good location, clean, and great owners.
We met with the owners to plan our shuttle into the HMW at the Katahdin Ironworks (KI) Road tomorrow. And we hit a major snag. The eastern entrance to the KI road is closed. The lumber company that owns the road is replacing several culverts. They were supposed to be finished a week ago, but work continues. Our only option is to come into the HMW from the WEST end of the KI road over by Moosehead Lake and Greenville, Maine. And the only way to do that is to drive in a great big semi-circle from Millinocket south to Monson and then northwest to Greenville and then east on the KI road many. Miles into the HMW to meet the AT. Ugh. Fortunately the owner here can shuttle us to Monson in the morning and Jordan from the Hundred Mile Wilderness Adventures in Monson can drive us the rest of the way to the AT.
We walked to the Scootic Resturant for dinner then back to the hostel. I read for a while and decided that I need to find a different blog site. I plan to build my own site using WordPress and blog there. Downloaded several WordPress tutorial books and started reading.
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