An emotional day – The Trek

Day 75- Part 2- 6 miles today from 12 tribes (key gap) to ATC Harpers Ferry 850 Up Feet 1,300 under total 1,101 to miles

Short walk

I have about six miles for Harpers Ferry. It seems that it is quite level walking, so it shouldn’t be so bad on my ankle. My ankle hurts, I think that because of the hard impulse I made 2 days ago in the roller coaster with an elevation of 4,600 feet in more than 19 miles to obtain the lair of the bears. He did not help yesterday competing for an unpleasant storm front that was chasing me while crossing the highest point in the area.

This morning is great and the parking lot was probably full with the hikers of a day because it is a Friday. Hiking was simple but still muddy and humid for the days of storms. We had to cross several farms from yesterday’s unpleasant storm.

Snake

A lady stopped me for a while and warned me that the trail of the Apalaches in Maryland has many rattlesnakes and have taken their work teams due to rattlesnakes. We all shrugged from his advice because we have all seen many snakes.

I don’t think it’s in Maryland today. I think I will stop at Harpers Ferry and I hope to find a bunk and rest my ankle another day. Maybe you take one or two zero.

Today will be a short day of hiking. I plan to go through the ATC and take a picture.

Lost in the forest

The walk was quite without incident. Periodically, especially if the path is quite crossed with not too many obstacles, I will put myself on my phone to catch up with the things I needed to catch up.

I will be walking for a while stepping on rocks while looking at my phone. It is almost as if it had a sixth sense. I have often trapped and I told myself that I don’t do what I will cause wounds. Later I discussed this with Badss, who walked to the blind man of the path. He said you can feel the way.

I was looking at my phone and looking at hostel options in Harpers Ferry. When I looked at Faraout again to see where I was on the path, I had left the path of the Apalaches. Fortunately, forests around the Harpers ferry are open forests so that I can easily cross the forest to the official path of the Apalaches as shown in Farout.

When I finally arrived at the «Path of the Apalaches» as shown in Farout, I realized that this path has not been traveled in a long time. So I ended up walking so Faraout said it was the path of the Apalaches until I finally arrived at the true path of the Apalaches again. Several other hikers I talked to notice the same, but I didn’t make the forest of forests I did.

From there, the path fell towards the river.

Final mile

There was a really nice waterfall but many steps. My ankle hurt. Crossing the bridge was a bit overwhelming with the constant roar of traffic. The river was muddy of the unpleasant storm last night. Then there was a up and up up up until reaching Camp Hill in the old Harpers historical ferry.

When I left the roar of the road and climbed the steps I started to get excited. I couldn’t believe he was here.

Awesome

I walked along a wide brick sidewalk flanked by huge trees through an old iron door on my way to the ATC to take my photo.

In the Atc Badss was to smoke a cigar. I have not seen it from Damascus, so I sat with this path of the path and put myself up to date. Two policemen passed and gave us a lateral look.

Finally I went to the interior of the ATC. They had a small hiker in the back and the kind people of the ATC showed me. He knew about Badss that they had an ice cream in the freezer. One of the first things we do is look for excess food.

Broken shoes

I sat in the living room and didn’t want to move after that. Others came and left.

Survivor was there and his shoes were falling apart. I had a little shoagoo to repair my shoes I picked up in Blacksburg during our extended zeros. There were probably more than 6 ounces that had taken all these miles.

I have been taking it knowing that at some point I would need it or someone else would need it. So I took it out and gave it to Survivor. I also showed him how I would use lying if necessary to hold my plants on my foot temporarily and then wrap everything with adhesive tape.

Oh what hurts

Three other people from England and also appeared. I had seen them periodically, but I never remembered their trail names. One of them had an injury before and discussed my current injury around my Achilles. Then he grabbed my leg and started putting his fingers in my calves. Asking me, does this hurt?

He found an intense pain area and told me that this is the root of my problem. Then he proceeded to take his knuckles and dig in that painful area. I breathed through his painful massage. He suggested that he continue working to massage that painful area.

Injury

I knew I needed to take me free time. I have not had a zero since I started the Shennies and left Knockerz behind. I really hoped to get some miles.

But the roller coaster and then running that unpleasant storm has caused me intense pain in the area of ​​my ankle.

Meeting

Other hikers continued entering and taking their photo and moving forward. I saw Milkbone and Coolwhip whom I saw yesterday in the shelter in which we all hid before the storm. While I waited in the shelter with them the other day, I received some calls from the 12 tribes. When I left the shelter, they knew that I was going to the 12 tribes and joked saying that they did not see me again.

I also saw Dirtnap who had last seen halfway from the Shennies. I worried that I would have resigned from it because I had had a bad day that day. Days later I saw his tramily and asked Dawgs where Dirtnap was. Dawgs said they had sent him a text message and that they did not receive an answer after that day in the Shennies.

Raptor with whom he had been traveling at the same pace during the last days also reached the ATC. I met 8ball for the first time I was an animated hiker who was very funny. I really enjoyed your company.

Emotional image

I finally forced myself to leave the couch and took my photo in front. After the short period of time I had to go to the table to complete my information about my photo and felt overwhelmed by emotion. It took me for a while to complete the few lines that were needed in the polaroid image. I kept breaking in tears.

There have been many agitated moments on this walk, but only a few that have made me felt overwhelmed by emotion. This was one of those times.

Like many things in this adventure, I really can’t explain to someone who has not yet experienced it. Is it a deep appreciation for the gift they have given me to be at this time after everything we have happened?

I will take a few days off and I hope that my Sane ankle and can be on the road soon with my new shoes. I have not even reached half and I can only imagine the adventures to come.

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