EG-Series: Bog Dam Road May 2017

A new mode of camping was adopted for this trip.  My camp was off a very remote section of the White Mountain Forest. Plus, road was blocked by construction.  My base camp was 0.6 miles on bike from the car, and then another 0.4 miles on foot.  That was far […]

07:00 – I remember waking up very early and planning in my head how to break the camp most efficiently.  There was no rain, but everything outside was dripping wet. First to be folded and packed were sleeping bag and pads, food and clothes, kitchen and bath bags. Among first […]

Woke up at 05:51 – the record and without any hesitation I was ready to leave the camp in just half an hour. 06:31 start excursion number 4 – “Pond of Safety” Road is a mess.  All 5 yards of it.  Road is very wide here, but it has no […]

This was the only sunny and even hot day of this trip. Wake up at 7AM.  As today will be rain-free, I will put on old boots and leave new boots to dry out on sticks all day in the camp. Large new back pack all this time just having […]

07:20 wake up and put on dry socks and dry boots. Second breakfast of fallen birches – cantaloupe from Walmart cut by machete. 08:55 depart of an “excursion” number 2.  I did not even take paper map with me – there is everything on iPhone GPS topo maps. Today’s trip […]

Rain all night, but I am dry in the tent.  Raindrops from the trees still pounding on the tarp, but earplugs softening the noise. 05:55 Awake, but it is raining. Decided to continue to sleep Very slow morning – no reason to venture out while it is raining. 07:55 Wake […]