Trail Journal 09.20.02

After a huge breakfast at Cartunk House, we hit the trail at 8:00 am on an overcast morning.  Gray skies and dark woods.  Pretty easy walking  and good trail.  Had a steep climb up Pleasant Pond Mountain but we did it in good time.  Afternoon was the long drop to Moxie Pond before climbing up to Bald Mountain Brook Shelter where we are actually camping in the shelter for a change.  Big event of the day was sighting two moose--a cow and a very large bull.  Saw the bull first; it was butt up kneeling, probably feeding.  It rose up when it heard us and checked us out as much as we did it.  It was very large with antlers that looked about six feet end to end.  Truly a magnificent beast.  A bit later, the cow loped across the trail and was quickly out of sight.