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Day: |
050 |
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Date: |
Saturday, 21 June 1986 |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
17.5 |
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Daily Other Miles |
0.9 (0.5 in Front Royal, 0.2 store, 0.2
shelter) |
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Total
AT Miles: |
957.6 |
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Total All Miles |
987.8 |
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Weather: |
Very warm, sunny. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Eggs, sausages, scones.
Lunch: Biscuits and peanut butter, health bar.
Dinner:
Fettucine, pop tarts. |
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Aches: |
Toes a bit sore. |
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Animals Seen: |
Squirrels. |
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People Seen: |
1 AT Thru-hiker, 1 day hiker, many others. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
Got up ay 7:50am and had a shower. At 8am,
the Aussie Rules match came back on ESPN so I needn’t have stayed up
so late. I rang Mark and arranged to meet him at Keys Gap Shelter at
5pm tomorrow night for dinner. After breakfast, I finished packing
and departed at 9:10am. I walked ½ a mile to a good hitching place
and stood there, on a pleasant sunny day, for ½ an hour before
getting a lift to Linden. It was amazing how many women in cars
slow a little, look at you and obviously think about picking you up,
only to reject the idea as risky. I went to the Post Office, did
some mailing, and then went to a grocery store for a pint of milk
and a chocolate ice-cream. I headed off at 11:10am. The Trail at
first followed a road before entering the woods. It was fairly easy
going and I made good time. Where the Trail crossed Ashby Gap
during the afternoon, I walked up the road 200m to a restaurant
which had a phone and called Marj in case I didn’t get another
opportunity. She was quite chatty. After a milkshake I left and
walked the remaining 3½ miles to Rod Hollow Shelter, my goal for the
day. There was no-one there and the Shelter was excellent – brand
new with a pavilion for eating and cooking, and a good piped spring
with a facility for showers. At about 7:30pm, another AT hiker (by
sections), Uncle Al, turned up. He’d hiked a 100 miles further
south and could fill me in on the progress of a few people I
knew. In 1984, he had hiked from Georgia to Massachusetts, but then
his wife had asked him to come home. This year he planned to hike
Virginia to Maine. He was useful with information about the Trail
in Pennsylvania. I went to bed at 9:30pm. |
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