Dave Byrnes' Adventures

Appalachian Trail - 1986
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Day: 028
Date: Friday, 30 May 1986
Start:  
Finish:  
Daily AT Miles: 10.8
Daily Other Miles 0
Total AT Miles: 524.9
Total All Miles 540.5
Weather: Some fog, partly cloudy, very warm.
Accommodation:  
Nutrition: Breakfast: Muesli, health drink.
Lunch: Two ham & cheese rolls, ice-cream, chocolate milk.
Dinner: ??
Aches: Both heels and some toes.
Animals Seen: Cows, chipmunks.
People Seen: Four overnight hikers, many others.
Pictures: Here
GPS Track:  
Journal: Got up at 6:30am to find my food bag intact and packed up again taking time to tend my ugly feet.  Decided to hike to the motel near Atkins and stop there for tonight and maybe tomorrow night as well.  I got going at about 8:15am on a pleasant warm day.  The Trail was good – gentle grades, easy walking and lots of flowers in the forest.  For the first hour my foot hurt quite a lot but, after my first rest, it improved quite a lot and I almost thought about leaving the motel stop out.  However, because I would have to push it to get Troutville by next Saturday midday (to get mail) it seemed wiser to have the day off now.  The Trail descended from Glade Mt and I had a break at the nice Glade Mt Shelter where a few weekend hikers were stopped for lunch.  From there it was four miles down to the motel next to the freeway.  The last couple of miles were down a pleasant country road past lots of pretty little houses.  I checked into the motel at about 1pm and spent the afternoon eating, doing some washing, and some shopping at a nearby Texaco mini-mart, as well as watching TV.  There was a restaurant attached to the motel where I had a good cheap meal.  After dinner, I watched TV and wrote a letter to Barb before going to bed at about midnight.

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