This morning we hit a lot of swampy woodland. It was very slow going, and every rock became an obstacle course. Our feet and trekking poles kept sinking in the swamp mud, and a couple of times we had to stop to pull Forest out of the quagmire. He didn't seem to care about the mud, though. LOL The temperatures today have been in the 50s. Normally, I love that temperature for hiking, but when it's wet and muddy, not so much.
We hiked from the New Hampshire border, climbing along an unnamed mountainside up the ridge of Mt. Success to the summit (3,565 feet), where we took a break. From there, we descended onto ledges, reentered the woods, crossed a brook and headed down into the gap (FYI: another word for a "gap" is a "col," the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks). The Trail then led us over two humps too small to be called peaks, crossed a ridgetop, headed down the ridge and entered a spruce forest. At 2,166 feet we reached Gentian Pond Campsite/Shelter (Mile Marker 286.5). Water was available here from a small inlet brook, so we stopped to collect some and then set up camp for the night.
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