Day 151 - 29th August - Pinkham Notch to Imp Shelter - 13.1 miles

Today is a very hard, long day to climb Wild Cat Spur and do the full traverse of the Wild Cat Ridge.  It is possible to bypass this hike, and hitch straight into Goreham, and this has appeal for many of the young hikers. We find a big mob of them lolling by the pool at the motel the following day. Digby and I remain pure and are totally exhausted by the day.

The track visits a shelter by a lake at Carters Notch Hut which is very picturesque - we decide to drop in and have some soup for lunch, which turns out to be the worst soup we have on the whole trail.
We crawl into the campsite at 6.15pm after a very serious descent - a cliff rather than a trail. We wonder how non rock climbers cope with this. It would one of the hardest sections on the whole trail.