6\/23\/12 – 979 miles
\nThe motel provides a free shuttle back to the trail so I didn’t have to worry about hitch hiking this morning. It was 8:30 by the time I got back on the AT, later than I like to start but still earlier than many other hikers get going. At least the oppressive heat wave had passed, it was only supposed to be in the 80’s today. <\/p>\n
I think my pack is on the heavy side again. With my ravenous appetite and craving for certain foods, I had a stuffed food bag. I also picked up a pair of light shorts at the second hand store, and Karen ordered another shirt for me to replace the one mice chewed up in the Smokys. There are other small things I keep adding, also. All the little ounces add up to pounds before you know it.<\/p>\n
I’m camped at a shelter called Dicks Dome. It was made by the Boy Scouts a few years ago in the shape of a geodesic dome, quite unique in design but reeking in wasted space. There is only room for four people.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I enter a section of trail called the Roller Coaster. The builders and maintainers in this area are very proud that they challenge hikers with continuous up and down trail. Most of the hikers that have done the Roller Coaster say it is more annoying than much of a challenge to us at this stage of our hike.<\/p>\n
I only have a couple more days to Harper’s Ferry so Karen and I pushed back the meeting place for our hike to Pen Mar Park at the Pennsylvania \/ Maryland border. Nate will also be joining us on our hike which makes me happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
6\/23\/12 – 979 miles The motel provides a free shuttle back to the trail so I didn’t have to worry about hitch hiking this morning. It was 8:30 by the time I got back on the AT, later than I like to start but still earlier than many other hikers get going. At least the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}