Monday, August 25, 2025. Up at 6:40. Overcast, potential rain, cool. It drizzled last night. Much less rain than I expected. Storms on and off today per forecast.
Out of camp (mile 2127.1) at 8:00 Either 15.4 or 19.6 to go today.
Stopped at 8:40 for water.
Stopped at Mountain View Pond at 10:39 and 5.3 miles to fill water and have a snack. Small pond. Medium uphill last 1.2 miles. We have .7 down a saddle then .8 up to Little Boardman Mountain. Been misting heavily. Not quite rain yet. Hopefully that holds off till the afternoon. Back on trail at 10:50.
Summited Little Boardman Mountain at 11:40 and 6.84 miles. Surprisingly steep, but all easy after this!
Texted with Pitcrew, sort of. One bad bar cell service on the summit. Starting to rain so headed down.
Making good time now that we are in better terrain. Stopped at a great stream at 1:40 and 10.9 miles to get water and have lunch. Humid but the sun is trying g to come out. Maybe we missed the real rain? Back on trail at 2:00.
Took a break at Jo-Marry road at 3:33. This is one of the two major private logging roads through the HMW. Also where you can get a supply drop but we don’t need one. This road handles major logging traffic including 18 wheelers hauling big loads of logs.
Beaver definitely at work here.
Got to Antlers Camp (mile 2146.7) at 5:20 and 19.6 miles. Good long hard day. There are 7 other hikers here. Lots of room so we are all spread out. Beautiful campsite on Jo-Marry lake. Very big lake in a chain of lakes. If the sun were out I would go for a swim. Water is warm.
Got camp all setup and dried clothes a bit before the rain got here at 6:45. We were both all set up and in our tents about 5 minutes before the rain started. Surprisingly have decent cell service. Looks like rain will continue until around 8:30. We will be cooking dinner in our tent vestibules tonight.
Asleep at 9:30. Long day today but not too difficult other than carrying 30 pounds for 19 miles 🙂 My feet are feeling it.
Our long day today gives us a short flat 11 miles tomorrow. Should be mostly sunny which will let us dry our gear after all this rain this evening! We will get to camp around 2:00 at latest. It’s supposed to be an awesome camp right on the lake. Looking forward to that!
Technical Notes:
- Pop tarts 360
- Zero sugar sausage 200
- Fatty beef stick 300
- Payday 250
- Doritos 300
- Peak Refuel sweet pork and rice 800
- Water liters 5
- Miles 19.5
- Time 9:20
- Up 1686
- Down 3533
- Calories consumed 2300
- Calories burned 3313
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