White House Landing to Rainbow Stream Lean-to

Day Forty-Nine
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
White House Landing to Rainbow Stream Lean-to
15.6 miles

Breakfast at 7:30 was eggs, bacon, English muffins, pancakes, coffee and juice.  Very good.  After everyone settled their bill, it was 9:00 before the first boatload got carried back across the lake.  We got on the first boat. 

The southbound folks at Whitehouse told us about the upcoming trail.  Roots, roots, roots.  The profile in the book looks really flat so were expecting the going to be easy, but it was not. 

The climb up Nesuntabunt Mountain was quite steep although not long.    At the top we got a beautiful view of Mt. Katahdin, 16 miles away as the crow flies, 36.3 trail miles! 

We walked beside ponds, on beaches and beside rustling waters, leap-frogging with Jurassic and Flickertail.  Flickertail shared with us her story about how her husband had died with an unknown heart condition.  She was finishing up a thru-hike, all the way from Georgia. 

At 6:20 we reached Rainbow Stream Lean-to where Jurassic and Shroom were already set up.  It started to rain as we were preparing dinner.