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Day: |
042 |
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Date: |
Friday, 13 June 1986 |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
20.0 |
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Daily Other Miles |
0 |
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Total
AT Miles: |
809.7 |
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Total All Miles |
835.5 |
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Weather: |
Mild, mostly sunny. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Muesli, Quik.
Lunch:
Biscuits and peanut butter.
Dinner: Various left-overs, macaroni
cheese. |
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Aches: |
Both heels blistered. |
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Animals Seen: |
Grouse and chicks, chipmunk. |
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People Seen: |
Seven overnight hikers, some AT
Thru-Hikers, some others. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
Got up at 6am and all the others left
before I got away at 7:40am. My intention was to hike 20 miles plus
make a trip into Tyro, 1¼ miles off the Trail, for food. The Trail
was quite pleasant through forest with the weather cooler and the
pack lighter. I stopped for morning break and finished my letter to
Pete & Chris. The Trail then ascended over a mountain called The
Priest. On the way up, I met a black guy who had been staying in the
nearby Shelter. I later discovered he was a novice in the bush and
weka had arrived after dark at his Shelter to find him huddled up
with a revolver “sorting out a few problems”. Weka had a sleepless
night and an early departure. Annoyingly, there wasn’t much of a
view from the top – another AT bummer. There was then a very long
descent to the Tye River and the road to Tyro. I sat beside the
road to hitch-hike and decided I probably had enough food to get me
to the Loft Mountain Campground in Shenandoah National Park so
couldn’t be bothered walking to the Tyro store. I spent half an
hour thumbing in the sun and, after no success, gave it away and
began climbing the mountain on the other side. I stopped for lunch
at the attractive Harpers Creek Lean-To before climbing on up to
Three Ridges. There was a short-cut – that Pete and Stu took – to
Maupin Shelter that avoided the arduous climb to Three Ridges. It
wasn’t so steep, just rocky, winding and covered with
nettles. What’s more, you couldn’t see anything from the
top. There followed a 3 mile descent to Maupin Shelter where I
arrived at 6:15pm to find Peter, Weka, and a family group of
six. They had extra food after just finishing dinner, so the three
of us finished off an assortment of stew, chilli and chocolate
pudding – very nice. Another pleasant evening – fire already going. |
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