and now for something not entirely different...

Tomorrow we head down to Clinton, NY, back to Hamilton to lead Adirondack Adventure. We will both be taking groups incoming freshmen into the woods to learn about college life, each other, and Hamilton life in genreal. However, this means that we now have to endure a near 15 day hiatus from the trail... ouch. We will lose our hiking legs, we will lose our toughness, we will not lose weight, but we will have a great time reuniting with friends long lost and taking lost of scared freshmen into the mountains for some lessons on real living. We are sad to say goodbye to many of our hiking companions as we will never see many of them again. By the time we get back on the trail, a few of them may have even finished!! But however long we spend away from the trail that we call home, there will no doubt be a quiet song in the back of our minds calling us ever north towards Maine. And when we return, north we will doubtlessly head. We have a target date now: September 24th. We think thats when this whole crazy thing will be done. That is over a month away, and yet we are mere 390 miles distant... so close, but there are a whole lot of pointy bits to go over before we get there.

We will spend tonight here in Plymouth, NH, in the heamaster's house at Holderness School (for the enevitably ungifted? ;-) The Peck family is hosting as the moment, recalling those days when we were in fact a part of their family, and perhaps still are. We will awake early tomorrow morning, look for our ride, and then be gone to NY!!

Sleep is calling,

TrailDogs