09/16 - 09/21 Southern Massachusetts and Connecticut
Day 68 Thursday September 16th North Mt Wilcox Shelter 639.9 - 655.7 = 15.8 We tear ourselves away from The Berkshire Lakeside Lodge relatively early because we have a long way to go. It’s about 8:30 by the time we are walking. We want to go 15.8 miles today and for us that takes focus. We have to stay focused on walking and not take super long breaks and not get distracted for too long, dilly dallying, looking at trees and mushrooms, etc. Dilly and Dally should be our trail names, haha. Try as we may we are not crushers of miles. Today ends up being a particularly good day for mushrooms and they distract us. We find lions mane mushrooms and it’s the only day we have seen them. They are mesmerizingly beautiful! We stop to cook some for lunch and a cooked lunch is always time consuming. The only way we have to cook anything is boiled in the jet boil, so that’s what we do. Lion’s manes are often compared to lobster or crab meat. We eat them in our bean burritos with a l...