6/16/12 – 889 miles
Day two in SNP brought more beautiful weather and smooth trail. It’s so nice to have rock-free paths and gentle climbs. I walked most of the day with Lucky10 – we seem to have a similar pace – and before long it turned into a twenty mile day. The thing about Shenandoah is that the shelters (called huts here) are either 10 or 20 miles apart, and because so much of the park is high on the ridge, camp spots and water are hard to find.
Shenandoah NP is also famous with thruhikers because of camp stores and waysides. Camp stores have things like ice cream and snacks and the waysides make cheeseburgers and blackberry milkshakes. The thruhiker doesn’t need to carry a lot of food just a lot of money.
At Loft Mountain campground we met up with Robo and Tink, Comma-Kaze, Blue Sky and Funnybone, and after eating many snacks at the store, decided to all go down to the wayside for cheeseburgers and shakes. We had quite a group that marched down the trail and invaded the little restaurant.
Blackberry milkshakes sound really good, even to a non-hiker. Yum!!
How did you manage to lose so much weight, eating and drinking all those yummy sounding things? Makes me hungry just to read about it.
Mom, it burns a lot of calories hiking 22 miles a day.