The power was out at Tiggers House this morning when we woke up. There had been a rather large and intense thunderstorm during the night; there was one lightning strike that looked and felt and sounded like it hit the ground right outside the house. Good night to not be outside on the trail. Once we were up we got a ride to Hannaford to resupply and to EMS for Landon to buy a jacket. With shopping chores done we got delivered back to Hanover to resume our journey.
I spent the day still feeling pretty tired and worn out. We had one substantial climb up Moose Mountain where we found the one decent view for the day. There was one kind of depressing moment when we hiked past a cemetary that we had already seen twice before while being taken to and from Tiggers. We had hiked for hours that day to cover the distance the car had gone in minutes. Once again we had ended up getting back on the trail rather slowly and ended up night hiking again for just a couple of minutes. When we arrived at the shelter we found a group of incoming Dartmouth freshmen. The AT is what they use for orientation up here – it looks like groups of 5-10 students and a pair of upperclassmen spend three days hiking and camping. Neat way to start college.