Location: Hampton Inn outside Palmerton, PA Everyone slept late this morning after getting to bed late. Ten o’clock seemed like six o’clock as everyone limped around on sore feet from the rocky walk yesterday into town. Not much went on today. The rain fell until about 4:00pm, so everyone hesitated to return to the trail. […]
A Night in Jail on the Appalchian Trail – AT Thru-Hike Day 98
Location: City Jail, Palmerton, PA At 4:30am, I was rudely woken by cold rain leaking through the roof of my tent. The rain had begun at midnight when I finally fell asleep. A puddle of the cold September rain gathered on my tent fly and grew for hours. Eventually the tent fabric gave way to […]
Back to the Ankle Turning Rocks in Pennsylvania – AT Thru-Hike Day 97
I got a very late start this morning. When I first woke up, it was raining. I didn’t want to get out of my tent. More and more, recently, I avoid hiking in the rain. It is just such a miserable experience that I will take zeros to avoid the rain. Many hikers not hiking […]
Killing Time with Moses and Guns of Jesus – AT Thru-Hike Day 96
I decided not to slack-pack today. 6:00am was just too early for me to get moving in a town. The bunks at the church hostel are tucked in a room with no windows. It’s a cave. I woke up around 7:30am through because I needed to get some chores completed and hike out at a […]
Bears is back on the trail – AT Thru-Hike Day 95
Location: Church of the Mountain Hostel, Delaware Water Gap, PA I completed NJ today, my seventh state. Half of the states are completed. Bonefish, Druid, Not Bad and I hiked 25 miles into Delaware Water Gap, PA, just across the Delaware River. The day was pretty uneventful since I was moving so fast. I did […]
Most people are nice, but some people are rude – AT Thru-Hike Day 94
We finally left Unionville, NY this morning. Butch gave us a ride to the trailhead and wouldn’t accept money for his gas or time. Not Bad called Druid and found out that he was only five miles behind us so we decided to wait for him to arrive. I finished reading A Clockwork Orange. I […]
Lost and Wandering into a Unionville Bar at Midnight – AT Thru-Hike Day 92
Location: Unionville, NY We lounged around the church hostel most of the day. The homeless families woke up at 6:00am and completed chores assigned by the church and then left for work or school. We were allowed back in the hostel after 7:30am. I went in first, having been woken up by the morning traffic. […]
Hiking into Jersey, Sleeping in the Church – AT Thru-Hike Day 91
Location: St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Vernon, NJ Last night I was run out of the shelter by a section hiker’s snoring. At around 1:30am, I decided that I had had enough of the old man’s noise. For 10 minutes or so, I had been making noise to try to wake him up or get him […]
Another Thru-Hiker Drops off the Trail – AT Thru-Hike Day 89
Location: Unnamed Shelter South of Ft. Montgomery I slept until 9:45am. I would have slept later, but we had to check out of the Bear Mountain Bridge Motel by 11:00am. I took a hot shower when I first woke up. I miss daily hot showers. I ate a couple bacon, egg, and cheese bagels at […]
Bear Mountain New York on the Appalachian Trail – AT Thru-Hike Day 88
Location: Bear Mountain Motel Labor Day. Bears and I were slow to leave the park this morning though we had a hotel room waiting for us at the end of the day. I had stayed awake until midnight last night reading A Clockwork Orange. We left the park around 9:15am. We walked highway 301 for […]
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