Beginning Point: Bailey Gap Shelter
Ending Point: Laurel Creek Shelter
Daily Mileage: 14.6 Miles
Total Miles: 660.1 Miles
Weather: rain, rain, and more rain.
We don't seem to have much respite from the horrible R-word. It seems as soon as my boots dry out, the skies rip open with a fresh batch of the wet stuff. It rained off and on from 6:30 am to 2 pm, and its been raining solid since (and now its 9). Horrible weather! The kind that starts permanently changing attitudes. We read in the shelter register today that our friend Yogi has developed a case of the "Virginia Blues" and was planning to yellow blaze (car travel) to Shenandoah to hike with his girlfriend, and then might think about continuing north after some time in NYC, his hometown. Our other friend Shoe is off for family reasons. It seems that lots of other hikers are starting to develop ailments - knees and ankles do not take kindly to repeated daily abuse.
We learned from reading the shelter register that our friend Kiwi had a close encounter with the poison ivy kind. He said he had to spend 3 days at the same shelter before he could continue hiking - Heels are very bad places to get PI as well as blisters. I think we just missed Kiwi by an hour or 2 this afternoon... Hopefully we'll catch him tomorrow.
Well, todays miserable outlook was changed by some trail magic. Not only did the boyscouts give us one of their dinners (food for 8 - or 4 hungry hikers), we also had some magic from Super Dave who hiked in '02-'03. Judging from the shelter register, he regularly leaves sodas and little debbie snacks between the War Spur and Laurel Creek shelters. Those treats were just what I needed to get motivated to hike again today. The kindness of strangers permeates this trail and is probably the biggest reason that some folks make multiple thru hikes.
Hey Boyscouts - that dinner was awesome! Filled me up and warmed me up, too! Could I get that recipe? Good Luck to you all back home in Mentor.
Butterfingers
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