Day 7
Monday, April 4Woodrow Road to James Fry Shelter
12 miles
Bob Freeman met us this morning at the AT Conservancy parking lot in Boiling Springs and drove us down to Woodrow Road where we stopped yesterday.
It was easy walking, low and level, through Pine Grove Furnace State Park, then up a rocky ditch. There was one rock field of “happy rocks” as we have started calling them – not bad, not small and jagged to hurt your feet, big enough to walk on.
We reached another half-way sign, which was more permanent
and picture-worthy. The actual half-way
point on the AT keeps moving due to re-routing of the trail each year but they
haven’t moved this half-way marker since the half-way point was 1090.5
miles. Bob had told us that he erected
the black mailbox housing the trail register at this point.
It started raining around noon and continued until we
reached James Fry Shelter around 3:30.
King Bob and DW were sitting on the shelter platform when we
arrived, Soul Keeper was inside reclining.
The couple told us they had started at Pine Grove Road and are going to
Delaware Water Gap. Soul Keeper is from Minnesota and is doing a five day
hike. We were glad to be in the shelter when it started sleeting around 6. The temperature is suppose to go down to 28
tonight; we went to bed in the shelter but before the night was over we got up
and made a quiet exit to set up our tent nearby.
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