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Day: |
066 |
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Date: |
Monday, 7 July 1986 |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
19.3 |
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Daily Other Miles |
0 |
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Total
AT Miles: |
1302.0 |
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Total All Miles |
1340.6 |
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Weather: |
Very hot, humid and hazy. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Muesli, quart of ice-cream,
quart of orange juice, donut.
Lunch: Biscuits and peanut butter,
Mars Bar.
Dinner: Macaroni cheese, instant pudding. |
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Aches: |
Toes and ex-blister very sore. |
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Animals Seen: |
Chipmunks. |
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People Seen: |
8 overnight hikers, many others. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
Got up at 6am and left at 7:30am on a day
which again promised to be very hot. My right foot was sore and I
wanted to walk slowly, so I sent a reluctant Jerry ahead of me. I
think he’s worried I might try and give him the slip. After four
miles I reached Worthington’s Bakery, where Jerry was waiting, and
supplemented breakfast with a quart of orange juice, a quart of
ice-cream, a donut and a Dr Pepper. We then headed off on a bit of
road-walking before the Trail again entered the woods and climbed to
a ridge. Unfortunately, it was again rocky making it slow progress,
made worse by the heat and my sore foot. All in all I was feeling
miserable. Jerry, a nice inoffensive guy, preferred me to lead so
he could keep me in his sights, which didn’t help matters – a
permanent shadow. We reached the crest of a ridge and found an old
pavilion which had stone floors and was beautifully cool. We hung
around for an unscheduled ½ hour. The Trail then descended for a
few miles and we stopped for lunch at 1:30pm in a car park which had
a water pump – lovely icy water. As we were about to leave, the
leader of what turned out to be a seemingly disorganised hike for
pre-teen boys arrived headed south. We met the tired and waterless
boys straggled along the Trail as we headed north. Heat and sore
feet and rocky Trail compelled me to have breaks at three miles in
the afternoon and we also stopped at Highpoint State Park Visitors
Centre for water before the last two miles to Highpoint Shelter. It
was a reasonable Shelter, but the heat and mozzies decided us both
to sleep in our tents. We arrived at 6:30pm so had time for a
leisurely dinner before retiring at 9pm. There was a thunderstorm
at about 11pm, but the tent did well. |
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