Monday, 6\/29<\/p>\n
AT Miles = 16.8 \/ 1284.8
\nOther Miles = 0 \/ 44.2
\nTotal Miles = 16.8 \/ 1329.0<\/p>\n
Insulated from the usual cues that wake me in the morning — a
\nlightening sky and chirping birds — I was afraid I would oversleep in
\nmy motel room and as a result I woke repeatedly during the night, each
\ntime checking my watch. I last woke about 4:30 so got up and got my
\ngear together. I walked down the street to the Gap Diner, open 24
\nhours, and had breakfast. By 5:30 I was walking back through town on
\nmy way to the AT crossing at the top of Wind Gap. I wanted an early
\nstart today in order to be sure I arrived in Delaware Water Gap with
\nplnty of time to do my errands and still make it across the bridge to
\nmeet my friend Paul at 4:30.<\/p>\n
I only had about 15 1\/2 miles to walk to get to DWG, which normally I
\nwould confidently predict to take just a bit over 6 hours, but with
\nthe rocks in PA I have found it impossible to estimate hiking times as
\nit depends completely on how rocky the trail is. As it turned out the
\ntrail was about “normal” for northern PA and I made it to DWG before
\n2:00PM, 8+ hours after starting in Wind Gap.<\/p>\n
Along the way I ran into both Red Leg and Sir Richard, and the three
\nof us walked the last couple of miles together. I was wondering why
\nSir Richard wasn’t already in DWG, and he told me that originally he
\nhad been planning to zero in DWG, but when he was in Palmerton he
\nrealized that everything he needed was conveniently close to the
\nhostel there so he decided to zero in Palmerton instead. Since I will
\nbe taking a zero tomorrow, and Sir Richard and Red Leg will both be
\ncontinuing on, I will once again be a day behind them.<\/p>\n
Well, I finally did it today; I made a classic AT hiker mistake that I
\nhave ben waiting to happen since I started. I stopped at an overlook a
\ncouple miles outside of DWG, took off my pack, ate a snack, and
\nadmired the view. Then I shrugged back into my pack and started off
\ndown the trail, THE WRONG WAY. I soon had a feeling something was
\nwrong, and it was confirmed a minute later when I came out at the site
\nof an old tower that I had passed previously. To compound my
\nembarrassment, Red Leg was there and I had to explain why I was
\napparently “coming back to meet him.” Well, I only hiked the wrong way
\nfor a short distance; I guess I can take some comfort in that.<\/p>\n
After arriving in DWG I went first to the outfitter. They, too, were After lunch I walked up to the post office to collect my packages, I used my bear bagging cord to tie my packages together, then I left Oh, I almost forgot! Photos for the section from Boiling Springs to Delaware Water Gap are here: http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/affreeman1959\/ATBoilingSpringsPAToDelawareWaterGapPA#<\/a><\/p>\n — Monday, 6\/29 AT Miles = 16.8 \/ 1284.8 Other Miles = 0 \/ 44.2 Total Miles = 16.8 \/ 1329.0 Insulated from the usual cues that wake me in the morning — a lightening sky and chirping birds — I was afraid I would oversleep in my motel room and as a result I woke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at_thru_hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsold out of Aquamira, though I did manage to get all the other things
\nI needed. I bought a small bottle of Potable Aqua tablets in case I
\nrun out of Aquamira, but I really don’t like those. After the
\noutfitter I went to the Water Gap Diner for another lunch. Jodi and I
\nate lunch at this same diner last July when we came through DWG on our
\nbike tour from Boston to DC. ((See
\nhttp:\/\/allenf.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/glorious-riding-in-new-york-new-jersey.html<\/a>).
\nI think I even sat in the same booth we sat in, almost one year ago.
\nThat made me miss Jodi a lot!<\/p>\n
\nwhich in addition to my bounce box and the food drop Jodi sent, to my
\nsurprise included a new monkeywrench flag sent by Lou in Utah. Thanks
\nLou!<\/p>\n
\ntown and walked across the bridge over the Delaware River to the Jew
\nJersey side (good bye PA!), until I reached the DWG Visitors Center
\nwhere I was to meet Paul. Paul showed up right on time and after we
\ngot to his house I had a shower and did my laundry, then Paul cooked
\nup a great dinner of salad, grilled salmon, corn on the cob, and a big
\nfat burger to satisfy my appetite for greasy protein. Oh, and let’s
\nnot forget the ice cream and homemade chocolate chip cookies. What
\nwith the pizza and gelati last night, the diner breakfast this morning
\nand an extra bagel and cream cheese to accompany my usual lunch, the
\nsecond lunch at the diner in DWG, and the feed at Paul’s house, I’ve
\nstuffed a lot of calories into my body over the last 24 hours, and let
\nme tell you, it feels good!<\/p>\n
\n~~~~~
\nAllen F. Freeman
\nallen@allenf.com<\/a>
\nwww.allenf.com<\/a>
\nallenf.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"