| July 15, 2005 |
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We did fin a shuttle from Pine Grove
Furnace to Boiling Springs. We'll be doing another 20 mile
day. We're about 3 miles out from Pine Grove Furnace. We
went around Fuller lake where everyone goes swimming. There was a
bike trail there and we hiked a good mile on the bike trail and cut
into the woods. When we got to the gate a Trail Angel had left
a cross between a nectarine and peach. We enjoyed the fruit
the Trail Angel had left and started hiking again what appeared to
be a road bed that had washed out. Easy hiking and steady
incline. |
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Cut of the roadway about 3 miles out in an
open woods, narrow path, easy hiking with little rocks. We
have had one brief shower this morning after we started. I
think we'll be getting some more thunder storms in the afternoon.
I'm in Boiling Springs now, but I'll go back now and try to pick you
up on the trail a little bit. |
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We got into Boiling Springs about 7:30pm.
Mike shuttled our packs into Boiling Springs and dropped them at the
B & B where Tom had booked a room. I was going to ask them if
I could sleep on their porch with Simon. When we got there the
guy was really mad and he was calling us everything that wasn't
true. He said that we were giving hikers a ban name because he
thought we tried to cheat his son out of some money. All of
those packs that he picked up, which was 7. That did not
belong to Tom and we wound up not staying there. Tom and I
picked up all the packs and went to the clock tower that was up the
street close to the ATC building. By then it had started to
become a down, standing out there soaking wet trying to find the
other kids, co that they could get their bags and try to keep them
from getting wet. Tom searched for a while, I searched the
little store area and finally came walking through town. They
had just gotten in. None of us had a place to stay in the down
pour, so we went back to the ATC building and figure out what we
were going to do. There was a lady at the ATC office, we got
to use the phone and we found another B & B called Pleasant Field
Breakfast. It all turned to the better because she came down
after us at about 10:30 at night and came into the pizza place where
we were eating. Took up about 6 miles up the road and the we
had a room and she let Simon also stay inside too. The next
morning when we got we had our delicious breakfast before we left
she gave Simon a bag of dog food with little bones in it and doggie
treats. She each of us a bag of cherries. Also the
husband drove us down back to the ATC building, the he shuttled all
of us back up to Scotts Farm. The situation all turned out to
the better and when we got to the ATC and I took the register and
let the other hiker know what had happened and I took all his
advertising off the bulletin board, and put up the Pleasant Field
advertisement. We found out later that we were not the only
one that had a bad experience with them too. |
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We did a 20 mile day from The ATC building
Springs to Darlington Shelter. It was a pretty nice day
through there. Basically hiking through hard woods, no views.
That was day we got into the big rock maze on Big Rocky Mountain. |
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The next day we went from Darlington
Shelter down into Duncannon. I wasn't expecting to get into
their until Sunday night, but with all the shuttle service we were
able to arrive a day early. Going from Darlington Shelter is
was more of the same thing. A lot rocky sections. Coming
down off Duncannon hill we had only on view of the town. Going
down off those rocks, it had rained and we were soaking wet, you had
space to walk and then you had 4 or 5 more steps. I hade made
it down to the last steps and when my foot hit the bottom step in
the last group my foot slipped out from underneath me and I did my
tumbling act again. I went straight down over the hill,
bounced off several different rocks and landed on my cheek, my
glasses flew off and luckily that there was a tree right beside of
me that caught me. There was no way I could get up and yelled
for Tom who coming down behind me. He came down and helped to
lift my pack up and get it off so I could crawl back up the hill.
I knew that I had cut my left arm, but I didn't know how badly,
blood was just streaming. I to looking and it was pretty deep,
so I took my bandanna and put it on the top of that, and tried to
stop the blood. I cut my right leg down below the knee and
skinned the rest of it. Also scratched on the left knee.
I did hurt my chest as I went over those rocks. I thought
maybe I cracked a bone, but I think it's badly bruised.
Needlessly, the town of Duncannon will always be in my mind. |
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Swing'n Jane and
Simon |
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