Legs and Borders

Fairly demanding day with tough terrain and elevation gain. Lucy, the German shepherd was surprisingly well behaved over night but mosquitoes and black fly's were not, I could hear constant buzzing around my head and I was regretting that I didn't set up a tent. First on the menu was a ten mile long, steady climb to Glastenbury Mountain, terrain was rocky and muddy, I had to jump over the puddles or find a walk around the bigger ones. Tree roots were also very prevalent, it took a lot of energy to complete that section. Second part of the day was easier, climbs were shorter but the terrain did not improve much. There were few more beaver ponds along the way and I could see their beautiful lodges among the wetlands they produced, those sections were usually board walks as the trail was pretty much submerged. I have only seen five day hikers and five what I've assumed were Long Trail hikers (they were way too clean to be AT hikers). Weather was very go...