Hello from Hanover, New Hampshire! Home to Dartmouth College, the only school that has the AT running right through it! We've had a beautiful time in Vermont, so far it is one of my favorite states, but still behind Virginia. The climbs were pretty steep and eye-opening considering we are three days from the Whites - an out-of-shape hikers nightmare. Not to say that we're out-of-shape, but we're not the super hikers that we hoped we'd be by now.

We filled our last week in Vermont with stops along the way for each day. We hit the Inn at the Long Trail for burgers and beer for lunch after we climbed down from Killington, then we hit a general store/farm stand for ice cream and blackberry pie and the day after that, we hit up Cloudland Farms for organic Vermont mint ice cream paired with organic Vermont root beer! We also scored trail magic from a guy named Tim that we saw hiking south the next day, and we had a coke at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party - a plastic chair set up at the 500 miles-to-go mark!

That's right, less than 500 miles to go! 441.8 to be exact! We've slowed down our pace considerably this week and will continue to ease our way through New Hampshire - it's simply not possible to climb these mountains and do the mileage that we've been accustomed to in the mid-Atlantic states and even through Massachusetts.

Still no smartphone, yet - Verizon sent another dud to me in Hanover, so I've been working with Customer Service all day yesterday and today to get a different phone altogether. Things are looking good, and I should have a new HTC Ozone by Friday when we reach Lincoln, NH after we climb Mt. Moosilauke, one of the most dangerous, slick and steep climbs that we'll have to do. Surely, we'll have something to blog about, assuming we'll have service!

Thanks for sticking with us through the whole ordeal, we'll be back to regular posting as soon as we can!

Keep us in your prayers; the Whites are no joke! We're anxious about making our way through them, but considering we've come 1736 miles, we should be able to get through it without incident!

Love you guys!

--Gezza