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Day: |
078 |
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Date: |
Saturday, 19 July 1986. |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
21.4 |
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Daily Other Miles |
0.4 (0.2 Shelter, 0.2 spring) |
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Total
AT Miles: |
1509.3 |
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Total All Miles |
1554.9 |
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Weather: |
Very warm, very humid, hazy. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Muesli, health drink.
Lunch:
Biscuits and peanut butter, chocolate bar.
Dinner: Fettucine,
instant pudding. |
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Aches: |
Foot problems, bad chafing all over. |
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Animals Seen: |
Deer, small snake. |
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People Seen: |
12 overnight hikers, 7 day hikers, many
others. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
I woke up at 5am, when the others began
stirring, and got up at 5:30am after a bad night’s sleep. I
resolved to sleep in my tent on future warm nights. Chafing was
also hurting a lot. I left at 7am on what I hoped would be an easy
day of about 21 miles with no big hills. However, it was going to
be another triple H day, which would make it unpleasant. The first
four miles were slow going over, and down, Jug End to a road where I
replenished my water at a spring. While resting, two joggers went
past (I wish I was just out for a jog) and some pre-breakfast
walkers. My mind was much pre-occupied with how much further I had
to go all day. It will be nice to finish. There were some fields
to be crossed and a mozzie-infested forest before a fairly long
road-walk. After the road-walk, there was another mountain to go
over. Sweat was pouring off me and my chafing was getting very bad
despite heaps of Vaseline. There followed another brief road-walk,
at the end of which I had lunch at about 2:30pm leaning against a
lamp-post on a quiet lane. Very pleasant and I nearly went to
sleep. The final six miles involved negotiating another sweaty
mountain to reach the Mount Wilcox North Shelter where I arrived at
6pm. The mozzies were bad, so I had a wash in the adjacent pond and
donned long pants and shirt for protection before cooking dinner and
erecting my tent. Too many mozzies to sleep in the Shelter. AMC
ridge-runner, Liz, and boyfriend, Matt, arrived during dinner and we
chatted while we ate. Matt had not been hiking overnight before,
and Liz spent a lot of time explaining to him the rules of “leave no
trace” camping, including not washing clothes in water sources
(which I had clearly done, as my clothes were hanging out to dry
near the stream) and going to the loo well away from water sources
and the camp area. I got into bed at 8:30pm (mozzies getting bad)
and did my diary before going to sleep at 9pm. During the night, I
was woken by shouting. Matt had gone to the loo and got lost in the
dark. He only found his way back after wandering around for a long
time then resorting to shouting for help. Eventually, he woke Liz
and me and Liz shouted in reply directing him back to camp. It was
all a bit sad – both were very upset. |
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