Sunday, August 24, 2025. Up at 6:30. Warm and sunny and breezy. Heading for low 80s.
Packed up, had breakfast, and got shuttled back to Monson at 8:10. Arrived at 100 Mile Wilderness Adventures camp in Monson at 9:40.
Jordan picked us up at and we headed for Gulf Haggis via the Katahdin Ironworks Road at 9:55. Taking the long way in from Moosehead Lake due to the road being closed on the Millinocket side for bridge repairs.
Arrived at the trailhead in the Hundred Mile Wilderness (mile 2114.4) at 11:00. Immediately got on trail.
We made 5.6 miles by 1:30. Fairly cruisy with a few medium uphills. Took a break for a snack and to refill water before we start the hard climb. Next 5.8 miles to the summit of White Cap are 4 steep up and down mountains. Probably slow us down to a bit over 1 mile per hour. I hope to be at camp by 7:00pm.
We have been leapfrogging with Turtle since mile 1. He started in NY and is going to Katahdin, then flipping back to NY to complete his thru. He lost his water cap somehow while we were taking a break. I had a spare. The trail provides.
Nice waterfall.
Back on trail at 2:00. We have 4 summits this afternoon. Reached Gulf Haggis Mountain at 2:35. That was a nasty hard climb.
Crossed over West Peak about 3:30. Nasty climb number 2.
Summited Hay Mountain at 4:30. Nasty climb number 3.
Now we need to climb up to White Cap Mountain at over 3600 feet. That’s what we need to go over.
Dragged our butts up to the top of White Cap about 5:40. Tough ascent and the wind is at least 30 miles per hour above tree line with gusts that push me around a lot. Amazing views up here even with the cloud cover. Looking north into the HMW we can’t see any sign of civilization.
YouTube video from White Cap Mountain.
Somehow there is decent cell service up here. Took a picture and sent it to Pitcrew. She sent me a picture back.
We descended about a mile to Logan Brook Lean-To (mile 2127.1) by 6:20. The shelter as full and the tent sites were all taken. We got water and hiked about .25 miles to a decent stealth camp spot. Very rocky but it works. Finished setting up camp about 7:40. Made dinner in the dark and in bed to read by 8:30.
It’s very windy with a high chance of rain tonight. Ed and I both put extra guylines to hold the tents in the wind. Fingers crossed.
Not a bad day. Hard but not terrible. We are basically done with big climbs for the next 5 days. Yay! There is a 100% chance of rain tomorrow. Will see how wet we get. Probably soaked. Just hoping to put up our tents between storms tomorrow night. We have 15.3 miles to an OK spot, but we want to push for 19.4 to a good camp area. We will see how we feel by mid afternoon tomorrow.
Technical Notes:
- Donut holes 320
- Crackers 190
- Readywise pasta vodka chicken 690
- Fig bar 200
- Fritos 300
- Water liters 3.4
- Miles 13.23
- Time 7:31
- Up 4377
- Down 2815
- Calories consumed 1400
- Calories burned 3359
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