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Week 2 Reflection

 May 22, 2023 — 2:35 P.M.  Total Hours: 110 This week has been a rollercoaster, emotionally and physically, if you count our changes in elevation. It started very fast, and I felt like I was being bounced around between a million different things, but once we got out there and began our trip, I finally caught up. We started with a curveball, being dropped off a day into our trip–we got dropped off just before our second campsite–and then having to cross a river that we almost fell in multiple times. But we kept going because there was nothing else to do until we got cell service. Then, it started snowing on us, and we got our second curveball; we couldn't stay on the top of a mountain if it was gonna be -2ºF, so we adjusted our route. Instead of going up and over Moosilauke, we stayed at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, run by the Dartmouth Outing Club, and escaped the freezing night. And it was still not smooth sailing from there; the next day, we met a through-hiker who told us that
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Day 12

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May 22, 2023 — 1:56 P.M. Work Period: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 A.M. Work Hours: 2 Total Hours: 110 After I woke up this morning and showered, ate breakfast, etc.; I began the deissuing process. I was recently informed that deissue is not a word, but I've always used it for what I did this morning–it's basically just unpacking and returning whatever gear was borrowed/used. So I emptied my bag onto my bedroom floor and separated stuff into piles. One pile was things that needed to be washed, like clothes and dishes, the second was group gear, and the third was personal items. Later today, I will head over to Kailee's, and we will return the stuff we borrowed and maybe meet with Lynne. I've also been writing the blogs and my reflection paper, so that is what I've been doing the rest of my day, but that doesn't count toward working hours. My other activity has been grappling with the somewhat horrifying reality that I am graduating in just 6 days when I feel like it shoul
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Day 11

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May 22, 2023 — 1:36 P.M. (For May 20, 2023) Work Period: 12:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Work Hours: 13 Total Hours: 108 This day was our descent/last day, we came down the Reel Brook Trail and got picked up around 1 P.M. by Kailee's parents. After doing the hike the day before, we decided to reevaluate our trip to best fit the needs of our group. We were supposed to hike over the Kinsmans and stay at the Lonesome Lake hut, but due to a couple of medical issues and an impending rain storm, we decided it would be safer and smarter to come down a day early. So, we hiked a mile back what we had hiked the day before and did the roughly 4 miles down to the trailhead. Because of our struggle the day before, we gave ourselves a lot of extra time to get down–because we all have various joint problems, and going down was the most impactful on our bodies–but we overestimated, so we had some time at the trailhead waiting for the Skinners to arrive. We walked around a bit and finished some of our snack
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Day 10

May 22, 2023 — 12:56 P.M. (For May 19, 2023) Work Period: 12:00 A.M. - 12:00 A.M. Work Hours: 24 Total Hours: 95 So, we don't have a video for this day because it was one of the most exhausting days ever, and we barely made ourselves dinner let alone a vlog. We hoped to do it in the morning but ran a bit late, so we decided to type this day out instead.  We hiked a total of 9 miles and summited what felt like 25 mountains, and it took us around 10 hours from when we left our campsite in the morning to when we got to our camp at night. We started with a 1.6-mile descent that took us two hours due to snow, ice, and steepness–some of the parts on this descent were literally rock faces with pieces of wood stuck into the rock as steps. After that, it was .6 miles straight up; it was something like 600 feet of elevation and triple that for the descent we did right before it. Then it flattened out a bit, and our trail landed on a ridge, which is why it felt like we climbed a billion diffe
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Day 7

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May 22, 2023 — 12:18 P.M. (For May 16, 2023) Work Period: 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., 1:30 P.M. - 12:00 A.M. Work Hours: 11.5 Total Hours: 23
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Day 8

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May 22, 2023 — 12:30 P.M. (For May 17, 2023) Work Period: 12:00 A.M. - 12:00 A.M. Work Hours: 24 Total Hours: 47
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Day 9

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May 22, 2023 — 12:42 P.M. (For May 18, 2023) Work Period: 12:00 A.M. - 12:00 A.M. Work Hours: 24 Total Hours: 71
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