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Day: |
031 |
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Date: |
Monday, 2 June 1986 |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
24.8 |
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Daily Other Miles |
0.7 (0.3 Shelter, 0.4 Spring) |
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Total
AT Miles: |
573.5 |
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Total All Miles |
589.8 |
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Weather: |
Very warm, humid, partly sunny in
afternoon. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Muesli, health drink.
Lunch:
Biscuits and peanut butter, health drink.
Dinner: Macaroni
cheese, pop tarts. |
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Aches: |
Both heels, front of feet. |
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Animals Seen: |
Grouse, deer. |
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People Seen: |
One day hiker, two overnight hikers, couple
of cars. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
Got up at 6:10am and after treating feet
and breakfast got away at 8:00am. Ken and Lewis left at 7:00am but
we caught them after about 6 miles. The Trail was fairly easy
going, being mainly downhill, and again was mainly on a ridge with
occasional views down to the farms in the valleys. It was again
through forest with many flowers. While stopped for my morning
break (Stu had gone on ahead) at Jenkins Shelter (lots of
mosquitoes) I met a day hiker who belonged to a club responsible for
maintaining the Trail around Atkins. We discussed the cow
pastures. They were having a work bee next weekend to try and
improve it. From the Shelter the Trail descended
to Laurel Creek (everything’s laurel-something) and passed through
boggy swampy country with many creek crossings. At one I found Stu
stopped for a wash and lunch as well as a father/son overnight hiker
team. I stopped too. After lunch the Trail climbed steadily up on
to the ridge againwith some of it sloping left to right hurting my
feet a lot. Most of the time it was good, however. At a rest stop
I accidentally knocked a water bottle off the track and it crashed
off down the very steep hillside. I didn’t bother chasing it as I
could hear it crashing for a long time. The Trail descended to
cross a road and freeway (I-77). Somewhere around here, Barb and I
crossed the AT on our way to West Virginia. I got a toot from a
semi-trailer on the freeway as I crossed overhead. From there it
was a couple of miles uphill to the turn-off then ¼ mile
to Helveys Mill Shelter which was very nice including a table. Stu
already had a fire going. It was a long steep walk down to a stream
for water that my sore feet didn’t appreciate. At least I was a bit
earlier than last night and had time for a leisurely dinner before
retiring at 9:15pm. |
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