Rained all night. Cloudy and cool in the morning with some sun in the afternoon.
We hiked 13 miles today. Mark Shaw gave us a ride down the trail and we hiked back to the Inn at Long Trail. This is a great place for hikers and it has a wonderful Irish bar. Their slogan: "A place where the dressed up folk, travel-worn motorist and roughly dressed hiker all might mingle with no apologies necessary ".
We saw some more trail maintenance workers from the Vermont Youth Conservative Corp (VYCC). Apparently the Green Mountain Club got some stimulus package money to work on the trail here and they are working with the VYCC to employ college age kids to do it.
We saw something new on the trail today - a ladder. They are using it temporarily to get up and over a boulder.
Today was water day. In particular, a two mile section of an otherwise dull trail had lakes, ponds, streams, and waterfalls. See pictures attached to separate message.
We met Bill and Stephanie, the couple we first met in Manchester Center who got engaged while on the trail. They caught up to us today and we had dinner in the bar. They will go up the Long Trail tomorrow.
Mark will pick us up in the morning and take us back to the same spot and we will continue hiking north on the AT.
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