On the Move Again

I got new shoes and my feet feel much better, even though we are walking over a lot of rocks...this is sort of what Pennsylvania is "famous" for on the AT. Sometimes the rocks are very small, but cover the trail in a way that makes it impossible to get a flat step. Other times we are scrambling across large boulder fields, on the lookout for snakes. There is hardly any elevation change, since the mountains are very long here, and we follow them for miles and miles. They are flat on top, and curve in an northeast direction. The other day we were at a place called the Pinnacle, which offers excellent views of the valley, as well as a "preview" of what we were getting ready to walk. We could see the rocky, barren Lehigh Gap, and it looked just as intimidating from 25 miles away as it did today up close.

We had an excellent surprise the other day when we were stopped in Port Clinton at the hiker's pavilion and we heard somebody say our names. It was a fellow hiker, Beach Bum's wife, aka First Wife! She recognized us from our blog and was in the area to visit Beach Bum and help him slackpack. She gave us a much needed ride to the grocery store where we found the best peanut butter ever.

In other news....we've been wading through poison ivy, but miraculously are not suffering from any rashes. We've been on the lookout for ticks, but haven't found many on our bodies. We had a semi-disaster with our tarp last night in a rainstorm, which was a real gully-washer, as my dad would say. Basically, the storm came just as we got to a shelter, and we didn't set it up properly. We got wet. The people sitting in the dry shelter several yards away found this hilarious. They refused to move over to allow us sanctuary from the storm. But we've met thousands of awesome people so far on this trip, so I suppose we are due to meet a couple of jerks now and again.

We have tons of pictures but no way to load them, so be patient, we'll get them up one of these days!