Mountains Under Foot

From Hazard’s notes:
Day 59: July 7, 2009
Travel:
From: Harpers Ferry, WVA
To: Ed Garvey Shelter, MD
Beginning: 6:30am
Ending: 9:00pm
Number of miles hiked:
a) Trail – 7
b) other
c) AT Mile Marker – 1019.8 cumulative
Weather:
AM: Beautiful day, sunny and blue sky.
PM: Dark clouds rolled in and released all of 10 drops and then blew away in place of more perfect weather.
People: Pilgrim, Patch, Capt’n, and everyone staying at Paul’s (Blue Moon).
Animals: Nope
Money: $7 for lunch, $5 to send a package, $15 for dinner. $1062 cumulative.
Notes of the day:
AM: Woke up from sleeping on the floor to work on journal stuff. Spoon jumped on the computer as well. All the while Paul was fixing an insane breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, muffins, homemade cranberry-nut bread, and fruit. Talk about some serious good eats. Shortly after, we packed up our things and headed back to the ATC. Spoon continued to write, I continued to write, and it was generally a lazy day; our first since being in Harpers Ferry.

PM: People came in and out of the hiker area all afternoon (Pilgrim, Minnesota Smith, Big Camera, Iceman, Cattywampus). Around 1pm we met Crow down at the pizza place for lunch. Buttchinz, Big Camera, and another hiker came in as well and we chatted and had a good time while eating. Afterwards we went back to the ATC where Spoon finally finished his novel length entries around 4pm. I had a few more days done but there was no WiFi around so I had to walk a mile down the road to the library just to send two emails. By the time I got back, the ATC was closed and Spoon was waiting outside with our packs. He suggested we get a bite to eat before heading off on the trail so we got some burgers at the Town’s Inn. While we were sitting there Patch came up and we were surprised to see him! He had taken five days off in Pearisburg and now had to get off the trail for a funeral. Hope we see him again soon up the trail. After dinner we walked all the way out of town to where we left off on Friday, only to hike back into town via the AT past Jefferson Rock. We followed the Potomac down until it turned up toward the mountain ridge. The trail was easy, but we started so late, it was dark by the time we got to the first shelter. Pie and cake for dessert, brushed teeth, then bed.