Today is my 100th day on the trail. It did not go as expected.
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With a 17 mile day planned to Bake Oven Knob Shelter, I managed to leave the shelter shortly before 7. Yesterday, One Feather had taken to calling the shelter "Easy Bake Oven Knob" (after the children's toy). With that in mind, I was almost immediately and rudely greeted with a rough, rocky trail. Being a bit cheeky, at the first shelter I passed (the Allentown Hiking Club Shelter, after about 7.5 miles), I wrote in the log,
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The day's plan being a relatively short 14.5 miles to the Eckville Shelter, I wasn't too much in a hurry this morning, and didn't make it down to the 7 am continental breakfast until almost 7:15. By that point, One Feather had already finished and was on his way out, planning to take a nearly 3 mile local bike path back to where it intersects with the AT, just south of Port Clinton.
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If only just barely, I managed to start hiking before 7 am on the third day in a row. The trail started off rocky, and then I got a nice section that let me fly down the trail for awhile, only to eventually turn into more rocks as I got closer to Port Clinton, PA.
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For the second day in a row, I left camp before 7 am. I'm enjoying the day being cooler when getting started, but the glare from the sun being so low in the sky is kind of annoying at times. The trail this morning started off a bit rocky, but gradually mellowed out towards the afternoon.
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