Journal Entries

This year I got proactive about my knee issue.

I saw a physiotherapist in early summer who recommended exercises and a specific knee compression sleeve for my specific issue, a tendinitis.

I’ve been training all summer paying attention to what my therapist taught me and bought the sleeve (on the right) to wear for hiking. The white and grey sleeve is from the drug store, i picked it up last year on the Long Trail for my knee issues on that hike.

So far so good on the genutrain knee sleeve (the fancy one). My right knee is my problem knee so don’t need a fancy sleeve for the left. Not sure if I need a sleeve at all, but being cautious.

27 miles of hiking and no knee pain yet. Will see how it goes...

Water source on our way to Battell Shelter. Filled up water bottles and did some laundry (socks and underwear) further downstream. Walked a couple hundred years and arrived at the shelter and the main water source, upstream from us, where no doubt others had done something similar recently. Thank goodness for water filters.

Starting day 3. Leaving our campsite north of Lincoln Gap. Destination: Theron Dean Shelter just south of Appalachian Gap, or App Gap as it’s called locally.

Good morning. Ready for coffee

@toesalad making our supper. Dehydrated Mashed potatoes with veggies flakes and TVP and a bit of bacon for flavour. Yum. Seriously everything tastes amazing after you hike all day and cook outside.

Happy to be done hiking for the day - 12.9 miles, happy to be sleeping in the woods.

A flattish area off trail is about to become our campsite for the night. We planned for a dry camp on the north side of Lincoln Gap so we lugged water all the way from Cooley glen Shelter, roughly 6 away.

Long way to carry and extra 4 litres of water but there aren’t many water sources through here so you do what you must. @toesalad carried most of it.

Sunset ledge area.

Today’s hike from skyline lodge to just past Lincoln Gap had more viewpoints in one day than most other areas we’ve hiked on the Long Trail before. Wonder what it will be like as we keep moving north and hit the higher mountains.

So many mountain ash trees up here even at the higher elevations. Love their bright red berries

More views from Mt Roosevelt.