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September 14, 1983: A note at Speck Pond Shelter informed me that Frye Notch Shelter, which I had been hoping to reach tonight, was still under construction and presently lacked a roof.
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I was not going to make it there, anyway.

I began another steep climb up the ridge to Old Speck, dragging myself over some exceptionally excruciating, sheer ledges near the top. They completed the hatchet job on my legs.
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I passed up the quarter-mile side trail to the actual summit and began the interminable descent into Grafton Notch. The trail down was a recent AT relocation. It wasn’t very good, but the trail which it had replaced was reputed to be awful. For the most part, it was walkable, though steep.
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I descended through a blur of pain and fatigue, finally coming out of the woods at the crossing of Maine 26 — the two-lane paved highway which passes through Grafton Notch.
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This marked the end of the Mahoosuc Range and the end of the White Mountains.

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