18-08-04 Hurd to Rainbow Stream Lean-to

Large sections of the Hundred mile wilderness look flat. I found that it is never flat it was always up and down up 100 ft down 100ft up 200ft and down 200ft. Additionally who ever laid out the trail in Maine though that we needed to go over the top of any bolder larger than a kitchen table. So I was forever climbing up on a rock only to slide down three or four feet. Once I climbed down a twenty foot ravine to find as I turned around that it flattened out a few hundred feet up so that I wouldn't have had to climb at all. This kind of stuff irritated me. I thought isn't the trail going to be hard enough without this kind intentional aggravation. I suppose that it might have been stupidity.

  I came out of Hurd brook the trail went across a bolder field that was on top of a stream and the boulders were slippery and I slipped off of a large flat rock and my right leg was up past the knee between the boulders. This hurt my left knee again. It was a nice hike with a few views rainbow ledges were you can see Katahdin. Which I didn't take a picture of and this lake that I did. I did a twelve and one half mile hike it was a good day, other than my knee hurting with every other step. My knee hurt most of Maine and I will try not to mention it many more times.