7\/11\/12 – 1211 miles
\nI’m taking a zero day here in Port Clinton, PA. The rocks in northern PA. are very numerous and stick up at odd angles, giving the knees and ankles a workout. These mid-atlantic states are where we can make good mileage – building up a head-start into the mountains of New England where the terrain will cut our progress down to a crawl – but I felt I needed a day off so I took it. <\/p>\n
A few nights ago, I was camped with a German guy named Sonic. At about 10 pm he asked me if I was awake. I said I was. He had left his new camp shoes at the shelter 8 miles back and had to return to get them. I let him borrow my headlamp because his wasn’t very bright, and he hiked back through the night – along an extremely rocky section – to retrieve his camp shoes. I hope I never have to do that. <\/p>\n
The shelter I’m using is a one-person, free-standing, two-piece tent made by Big Agnes. I started out with a one-piece tarp tent that was very light but had a couple flaws. For one thing, every time it rained you would get a mist from the condensation as the drops hit the nylon. I never could get used to that. And my tarp tent took up more room to set up. Good tent sites are something of a premium out here and the one-person tent fits where my other tent didn’t. <\/p>\n
I can usually get everything inside my tent at night. I usually hang my food from a tree in a bear bag, and my extra clothes make a pillow for my head. The tent has a small vestibule but big enough to cover my pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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