Day 66: Rehabix until the end

• Reed Gap (845.5), Zero in Waynesboro
• 0 feet rise, 0 feet of descent

Today I spent the whole day studying maps and discovering the best way to organize our results to reach the end of Virginia and the launch of Katahdin.

A few days ago I realized that I did not need to walk towards Harpers Ferry, since I had completed the section between Snickers GAP and Harpers Ferry in 1975. Study the 1975 maps confirmed it.

The end is in sight

When I put everything, even with zero days, we should be at Snickers Gap in three weeks. It is amazing.

Until now, I have avoided thinking of finishing. My approach has been in hiking. I try to concentrate on the miles that I need to walk on any day. Sometimes I let my mind walk a few days to contemplate a refueling drop or an yearning for Bath.

After consigning the Resupplies, I have a vague anxiety related to being finished. For 50 years, the trail of the Apalaches has had a comma, or at best, a point and coma. It was an unfinished prayer that needed a conjunction to finish. The conjunction is here. It is now. Soon, it seems that I will need a period for the end of the prayer.

An overwhelming amount of food

Our giant refueling box arrived. As we were alone in the hiker hostel, I unpacked the box in the middle of the floor of the common room. The food was everywhere.

We order food at breakfast, lunches, dinners and snacks. Soon, another hiker was recorded. I worried that our disaster was on the road.

The other hiker sat down and began to visit. He showed interest in our food. I realized me, I could like some of our extra.

Suddenly, my shamefully great excess supply was something good. Together we classify the food in our six refueling boxes and its package. He shared our interest in high quality nutrition, but he was currently being replenished with the standard packets of Raman, Pop Tart and Tunne. We were all happy.

Sealing the deal

We pack, seal and label our resupply boxes of Virginia. We sent a bouncing box to a hostel in Harpers Ferry that contained a couple of additional clothing that we could wear in our transfer from there to New England.

Finally, we throw the latest food items and several items in a box and tagged it to go to the historian’s shopping partner in New Hampshire, our operations base for the last stage of the trip.

Tomorrow these boxes will be sent by mail. Then, we will go out in search of the missing period for my prayer of trails of the Apalaches.

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