Heat! Heat! Heat … – The walk

First, with the title. Yes, I know it will become hotter than it is now. But time has passed (from before Marion!) Since he has been so roasted along the way. It’s curious how heat turns.

Despite how rocky it was the tentito he had, and having to use Benadryl to counteract a small caffeine and sugar, I had a great night of sleep. I know that there is some LNT principle to not sleep near the water, but since this tempt is correct at the beginning of the path, if the PATC would like not to be a tempt, they would have easy access to present signals. And there is no white noise as large as a flow that flows.

When I got up, a section hiker, or Flip-Flopper commented «I arrived a little late last night, huh?» I guess it is true that there are a lot of new faces on the road now that I have passed the Harper Ferry! Numbered path are severely Below this year, but there will probably be an increase in flip flops this year, because the first messages around Helene are not clear if the south would clear in time for the Nevo season. Again, thanks to all In a team of trails that helped us prepare the paths for us.

Until now, Pennsylvania does not have the feared «rocks.» Those come in the north. The south side is actually decently pleasant, with perhaps at most a few hundred feet of rocks, but mostly only flat path. I wonder why the mountains were flattened in the middle Atlantic. However, I am starting to feel every step in my shoes. Not as bad as before Damascus with the torque torque absolutely broken, more as he felt when he was walking in Lone Peaks. One more day of them, and then I will change in preparation for Rocksylvania.

I still have too much food weight in my backpack at this time. It would have been fine if I were eating out of my backpack, but today I spent all day working during the remaining 2/3 Stromboli that I ordered yesterday. Even with hunger for hikers on my side, the Stromboli dense.

The path quickly descended to Old Forge Park, where Tycoon was giving the path of the path! It serves hot dogs during most days in June, as an effort to help hikers get some proteins in their system. Hot dogs and only hot dogs. But he also drink drinks, snacks, plastic bags … He knows his things! I think the most fun interaction with him was when I asked him if it was through a trip, he replied with «more than you at this time, but you will pass me.» Apparently he arrived at the PA/NJ border, and is working on his sections. Very great!

Unfortunately, I could only house about three dogs, since I had breakfoli had breakfoli, and planned to take more for sandwiches. I packed some ear and returned to the road.

The shelters here are still pleasant, and that is thanks to the PATC. One of the things that was curious was that when I looked Faraout, I kept seeing that many of the shelters were two smaller buildings together, unlike Maryland’s «megashelters». It turns out that at least in Deer Lick, there is a «snoring» and «non -laughing» refuge. Ha!

The short and moderate 1,000 -foot climbing were the scores behind the ridiculing today. And it has toasted Here out. Without wind, high humidity, with high reaching 86! And here is the true kicking: there is generally no water consisting of the Bridelvania. I know that this is nothing compared to the heat wave last year, but it is still one step away from the cold and wet that marked my experience in northern Virginia.

I used a water cache for the first time today. Normally, I don’t like to depend on them, mainly because I want to keep them for another person who needs it more. But here, with heat and lack of water, I needed it now. Then, to whom he left the 8 gallons of water there, thanks.

Today I took frequent breaks to try to go through the Stromboli. I think the heat is also affecting my appetite, which could have housed in the cold of Virginia that I could barely obtain some snacks before my stomach complained. But every mile, I work some more bites. And some more, and some more.

Even with the water cache, when I arrived at Caledonia’s State Park, I was completely out of the water. Fortunately, they have work baths here and the greatest invention of man, a source of water. I spent a time here using the facilities, I coined in the local river and eating more stromboli. I finished it! With luck, that is a few pounds from my back tomorrow. The funniest part is that I have eaten so little food, I still have that «fresh» baguette by Bolívar Breta Bakery still sitting in my backpack! No matter the five ramen packages that are sitting there, careless.

I drank a liter of water and a liter of electrolyte mixture, and filled another liter before continuing through the mountain. I arrived at Quarry’s Gap shelter around 6, admiring its charm. One of the best things of PATC shelters is that you can really see caregivers do He cares about the state of the shelter. It is shown in the cleaning and individual charm that each shelters have. I don’t know why GA, NC and TN get so much love when their refuge game is super weak! Pennsylvania has been shame.

I wanted to stay the night, but among the insects that make the shelters not see, and the wooden carp platforms, I did not want to get me with trying to configure my duston in one of them. So I only pushed a small unofficial tent site a few miles away. Here, I think I found my candidate for the worst bear of 2025. 8 feet from the ground, maybe a foot and a half outside the branch, and two feet from the side of a tree. I could even get this without much effort. Oh ok. I hope a bear doesn’t play with the piñata tonight.

(Title Lyrics from: Pacencie and Fe, Olga Mendez)

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