A very steep climb - 1200' straight up to Pleasant Pond Mt in fog, drizzle and wind. Definitely NOT pleasant. Climbing wet vertical granite slabs is terribly dangerous - there is just one thing worse - descending wet vertical granite slabs, and that awaits us on the descent. We ring Stickbuilt and also Lake House at Monson to make a room booking on the summit. Quite surreal as the mist swirls around us and the phone pressed to our ear brings voices from civilisation into the wilderness. The descent goes forever.
We lunch at Bald Mt Lean To out of the wind, and then we have another climb up Moxie Bald, which is another 1200' - and we thought we had finished the hard stuff!! The final summit is in mist and rain so we take the bad weather bypass, which means we avoid the exposed granite slabs on the last 200' climb, and we breathe a sigh of relief. Is this climbing finally over? There is a steep descent to the shelter. but it is only 3.30pm so we keep going.
We finally find a gravel road, with a clearing beside the fast flowing river. The clearing is covered with moose poo! We have to scrape the moose poo off the tent site. We wonder if we are going to have a moose walk into the clearing during the night! We don't get run down by a moose - in fact we never see another one. Lucky that Sourdough pointed out that moose on the lake to us. Our only siting!
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