I awoke to the hikers in the shelter making noise early in the morning. Not wanting to get up I laid In the tent contemplating the day and where sunshine was. Finally I got motivated and put my shoes on. The rainfly was soaked from the downpour of rain but it was too humid to try to dry it out so I packed it anyhow. As I was about to leave sunshine came walking into camp. She had stopped about three miles back and stealth camped, we made coffee and began the final accent to the summit and fire tower. Once we had climbed the tower and took pictures we set off again. The trail was rough there is a lot of mud, roots and "rocks and sticks and twigs". All of those combined slowed us down more than we expected. Arriving at Kid gore shelter Sunshine and I hung up the rain gear to dry while we ate lunch. Kid gore shelter has a beautiful view from the front, so we had lunch with a view. It made my bagel with cheese drenched in olive oil and oregano sandwich priceless.
Climbing out of the gap where the shelter was was slow moving. Our next goal was the stoney spring shelter which also took us forever to get to. We had second lunch and talked with some Sobo's and LT hikers along with a Family of Nobo's sectioning half the trail. The youngest of the family is 7 his name is HI Five and two daughters one of which has down syndrome she is named tutu.
With Stratton mountain in our near future and my foot hurting, we decided to camp at the base of the mountain rather than climb the 5+ miles over the summit to stelth camp. Camp tonight is directly next to a nice little brook on soft pine needles. The family of Nobo's are camped on the other side. Its 9 pm hiker midnight so I'm calling it a day. Goodnight
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