8/5/12 Rainbow Springs Campsite -> Nahmakanta Lake Beach 12.3 miles This campsite is just past the Wadleigh Stream Lean-to and I read great accolades about its beauty in the shelter log so here I am 0.5 miles south and quite pleased with the environs. Sitting here on the beach eating a Parmesan pasta side, drinking cold filtered water and watching a flock of mergansers swimming by to the right taking turns diving as they swim along the shore towards the spring and then turn left along another shoreline. And now look there's a loon swimming alone, in the middle of the lake and now it dives. My left ankle and heel hurt so I walk down the shore towards the spring. I walk knee deep in the cool water then back up to the beach where pebbles and sand massage my feet enough to make me giggle. Back down to the shoreline, almost at the spring, I surprise a polliwog and it swims into deeper water but not very far. It looks like a shiny frog but it also has a tail. I dig down into the sand where a very cold spring is flowing across the shoreline and then sitting on a dry smooth rocky stool I put both feet in up to above my ankles. The cold numbs me almost to pain so not quite as cold as last nights site but very close. My food is already stretched a bit too thin to take my time getting to Monson so I will look forward to some higher mileage days of 18-22ish mile ranges. I have five hot meals for dinners, a ziplock bag of oatmeal but it's only 3+\- cups, and an assortment of mostly cliff bars, pemmican bars and some odds and ends. I'm still glad I took the zero yesterday and think/hope/manifest that my body is on the mend. My new Big Agnes mattress pad is terrific and I have been sleeping much better because of its better cushioning than my last "self inflating" pad from EMS. @Crescent Lake-> also saw some wood hens or partridge and took pictures. 8/6/2012 13.2 miles Nahmakanta(sp?) Lake Beach -> Antlers Campsite Up a little after 6am from a great nights sleep thanks to the sound of water lapping at the shore of Nahmakanta Lake and a very steady rain late at night. Hiked along lakeshores, streams and rivers for much of the day. Some rocky, rooty and very muddy sections. I was crossing one of the later on steep stones and slipped off a rock to find myself sitting on a step stone covered halfway up each shin with woody forest mud. Went to Whitehouse Landing Hostel after all to eat a giant one pound burger and pick up some additions to my food larder and 50 ibuprofens (for 10 cents a piece) all of which will improve my experience through the 100 mile wilderness to Monson. Expect to be in Monson Friday or Sat. Or Sunday.......
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