Day: |
058 |
Date: |
Sunday, 29 June 1986 |
Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
23.1 |
Daily Other Miles |
0.4 (0.2 to AT, 0.2 store) |
Total
AT Miles: |
1134.4 |
Total All Miles |
1170.2 |
Weather: |
Hot, humid, sunny. |
Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon, chocolate milk,
ice-cream. Lunch: None. Dinner: Chicken and noodles, pop
tarts. |
Aches: |
Sore hips and feet. |
Animals Seen: |
Deer, squirrels, chipmunks. |
People Seen: |
AT trail crew (2), 16 day hikers, many
others. |
Pictures: |
Here |
GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
Got up at 7:20am and went downstairs for a
nice, but small, bacon and eggs breakfast cooked by Mr Doyle himself
and eaten at the bar. At 8:20am I collected my pack and started
walking. It was already very warm and humid and forecast to get
hotter, my pack was very heavy (6 days food and 3 full water
bottles), and there was the prospect of a tough climb up onto the
ridge followed by six days rock scrambling (the dreaded Pennsylvania
section). I was a bit low and on the way out of town decided to
give Barb a call. We had a good chat and I followed it with a quart
of chocolate milk and a pint of ice-cream. My spirits rose a little
and I crossed the mighty Susquehanna River and began the steep,
though not all that long, climb. As usual, it had taken me a longer
time to get out of town than expected and the prospect of the
planned 23 miles and a late finish did not thrill me. It took me a
long time to cover the first five miles but it was cooler on the
ridge and not rocky all of the time and I began to speed up. There
were occasional good views over the Pennsylvania farmland and,
despite my heavy load, things were OK after all. I met a few
families out day hiking. I wasn’t exactly starved after a lot of
eating yesterday so gave lunch a miss and reached the site of the
old Yellow Springs village, my goal, at about 7:40pm. It was
pleasant spot and I found a good campsite. I hastily attended to
all my chores and managed to get a cooked meal, wash, etc., in while
listening to BBC shows on National Public Radio. Not such a bad
evening and I was pleased to have covered the scheduled distance
with the heavy pack. There were deer around the campsite as well as
fireflies. I got into the tent at 9:40pm and updated the diary
before going to sleep at 10pm. |
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