An early start with a wonderful breakfast of make your own waffles. Dig by eats a huge breakfast. The receptionist gives her carkeys to her daughter who drives us back to the trail
We are climbing by 8 am and reach the summit of MtBromley via a trail across the ski run. We climb the fire tower and have great views looking down on theresort.
There is a shelter here and the log book Has an entry from Masterchief who stayed last night.
We follow a granite rige and climb Mt Baker. On the descent we meet Flgying Squirrel, and an all girls team moving boulders and upgrading the track. We met Flying Squirrel in the Smokies. As a ridge runner. Super tiny and super strong - wiry, and muscles, only five feet tall.
We meet three young men cutting logs,using only a chisels to shape them and leversto to place them. It is a designated wilderness area and no chain saw a are permitted. Bureaucracy gone mad. I appreciate the athleticism and muscles of the young men working bared to the waist. An unexpected joy to see their enthusiasm. We have seen more track workers today working on the trail, than for the whole rest of the trail. We discover the reason is that Vermont has funded this section which overlaps with the Long Trail,so gets lots of hikers doing both trails.
We camp across the Rivera re they are building a new bridge and put the tent tp on a small sand bar. There are great swimming holes amongst the boulders and even I have a swim.
We catch up with stucco and scatters and the rest of the gang. It rains in the night and the tent leaks.
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