70-71: spaces in holes in holes

We left the house before 8 am and returned to our extraction point before the 1 pm with our bellows full of McDonald’s, we were prepared to make the wind gap.

The walk was soft and quite easy. The rocks of Pennsylvania showed us some mercy for our first afternoon on the path.

Rock’s work was quite impressive and made sailing in some of these areas so pleasant. WE reached a hawk visualization area at sunset and saw a look at some clear skies and without mist.

Our camp was a wonderful forest floor covered with pine. Insects and frogs were at full speed, so I wore caps for the ears. The moon was full and bright, but we managed to sleep well.

The next morning, we woke up at some point before 6. The days are shortened, so our alarm clock of the 5 am is no longer. We have not established an alarm in a long time, and I really enjoy being able to wake up when my body is ready.

We had a short walk along the way, where we found two porcupines! We continue on the way for too long. We expected the forest to cross a tree or something, but the porcupine decided that our way ahead was the best place to continue running out of us. Finally, he crossed the high grass. I love these little ones.

Our immediate mission for the morning was to go down Lehight’s rock gap to Palmeton. It was a technical land, so I kept my posts for the complete use of my limbs.

It was a fun at 0.8 miles to the road, but I could absolutely see the betrayal of doing this in the rain. These rocks are slippery even when they are not wet!

Once we went to the road and GAP, we crossed a bridge to return to a hill.

In a spring that flows, we met some Boy Scouts and a Nobo (who planned to finish his trip in New York). At this point, unless you are walking some huge miles every day, I do not think that many of the nobles that we will find from now on will arrive in Katahdin before the main paths near the hikers. You can always turn to the extreme north and walk south, which I am sure it is a popular movement!

Once we were completely on the crest, we met a group of nobles of packers. I noticed that one of them had a small kitten in his hand. He picked up this cat in Harper Ferry and takes him with him along the way. I feel a little bad for the cat because his name is a nut jacket, not a very estimated name for a baby.

We get up to bake the oven knob and the edge of the knife. Some decent opinions were taken.

Then we crossed a road and knew we were coming on a restaurant and an old Bed and Breakfast. We were just in time for dinner and we needed to stop anyway to fill with water. We have a couple of soft drinks, I asked for fish and fried potatoes, and Nick got the spicy chicken sandwich. Another night, avoiding a ran dinner. While antibiotics have fulfilled their duties, it is still difficult to think about consuming some of our paths of paths again.

We fill our water bottles of the spite outside and continue to another dry camp just under two miles away. It was not great, but several miles would pass before we could fill the morning.

They have been a couple of difficult days for me along the way. My hip flexors love them again at the heights, and my knees have pain in the low. It will be another hot week, and the path that we are entering PA is mainly in ridges, which means minimal water. I am trying to stay positive, but the thoughts of going have entered my mind again. I will do it for a few hundred miles at least, but sometimes it is very difficult. I have heard that at first you go through the physical adjustment of a walk through a walk, followed by a mental, and finally a spiritual. The physical adjustment was difficult to move forward (and I am completely reviewing that after a full week!), But it does not compare with the mental struggle that comes with what we are doing. I want to be grateful to have this opportunity to use my body capable of traveling and seeing the country in such a great way. Sometimes I feel that I could spend my time better elsewhere, traveling further, seeing things colder than these very torn paths. Or I could be putting my money to a more practical use, ending my title a little faster, going out with my beautiful cat and visiting aged and growing relatives. But this time it is for me right now.

I really thought it would come here and work so many things in my head. In any other backpacking trip I have made, I thoroughly separate my thoughts and feelings about anything and everything. This trip has been different. I am living completely present and at the time, even if that means that I am focusing on all the bad feelings I am having. My thoughts are mainly consumed with what happens around me, sometimes I have the thoughts completely.

I took a fairly deep immersion in my own version of a meditation practice in recent years. Unfortunately it fell from my radar before this walk, but I really enjoyed it. This great walk has often become a meditation to walk for me, mostly unintentionally. Something that I would really like to incorporate to my day is a method to try to acquit part of my pain. During a sitting meditation, the back can hurt for sitting up for so long, or it can have a itching that persists. If you focus on the sensation and really need it, you can relieve this discomfort instead of giving and adjusting or scratching. As probably I will not stop walking, I should start finding ways to deal with my discomfort instead of drowning in a group of my own self -pity. We hope to move on to the spiritual part of things, whatever that means.

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