Sun, sky, lake, and no walking!

So we are currently enjoying our wonderful short vacation from hiking in Rangeley, ME. The Murphy's are kindly letting us stay at their camp here on the lake, and it is absolutely amazing! Today we've been spending getting the necessary stuff done, like laundry, and groceries. And I get to see my family! Molly, Anthony, and Mom all drove up and are taking care of us. These last two weeks have been really nice.

After a while, the days start to blend together, but we did have a few fun things happen! One day, we stopped for a hour and picked Raspberries that were just growing along the trail, and then made raspberry pancakes in the morning. And we took a zero on Moxie Pond (camping under powerlines, some wilderness, haha) and just went swimming all day. We went to Tim Harrison's Pierce Pond Camp for breakfast one morning for the hiker special of 12 "patriotic" pancakes, with blueberries, raspberries, and apples (red,white, and blue!). We met a section hiker named Retread and talked to him for a while. When he left breakfast, Tim informed us that he had paid for ours as well! - And left us 10 pancakes to take on the trail!

In Caratunk we got some nice trail magic, 6 snickers bars, and a jar of peanut butter! We've been hiking for most of this time with our old friend Pepster, who is almost done with the trail. He's been section hiking since 1998 and is doing his last section, finishing in just a few days. We've also been hiking with our news friends René (a german!), and Mr. Z.

We leave again on Monday, and in a little more than a week will have made our way all the way back to New Hampshire!