the Thoreau Log.2 June.Thoreau writes in his journal: “8.30 – A. M. – Start for Monadnock… Blake [H. G. O. Blake] joins me at Fitchburg… Arrived at Troy station at 11.5 and shouldered our knapsacks, steering northeast to the mountain, some four miles off, – its top…” (Journal, 10:452-61).