Just got cell again… Posting from last night

Greetings from the south flank of mt Mansfield . Max, gabe, Diane and I are 1 day into our 3 day backpacking adventure . We’re walking home from Stowe on the long trail. Today jen picked us up around 10 and drove us to the Stowe gondola . We rode up which may be considered cheating but was really fun. Then came the toughest climb of the day, the cliff trail. Diane started by dislocating the pinky of her right hand. She yelled then popped it back in and kept climbing. Atta girl ! There was about 200 meters of white knuckles (for me) hoisting to get our over heavy packs up to the junction with the long trail once there we launched a hit air balloon with SAMs name to lunch the trip . From there it was about 6.5 miles to Taylor lodge where we are now. On the way we incredibly ran into a couple mary and aaron from Virginia who’s wedding max attended last week (what ?!?!) aaron irat saw me and recognized me drom the colony.. Then he saw max and he frakd put . Max actually saved someone at the wedding by doing the heimlich.
The rest of the hike today was hard and beautiful. Lots of ups and downs with heavy packs. Still it was wonderful all being together. We dropped a couple of samstones along the way. S was here with us on the trail
we got to the cabin around 7… Which was 2 hours later than planned. There’s a nice group of recent grads from Ohio state sharing the place with us
Dinner was wonderful.. Fresh pesto , noodles and home made bread yum. We’re all exhausted now. So I’ll end here. I have lots of pictures to send… But not enough bandwidth to send ten. Hopefully tomorrow .

Sleep well everyone

Nite all, nite Sam
-me