Saturday,
May 6, 2017
Guilder Pond to East Mountain Woods Road Stealth Camp
12.7 Miles
High today 64, tonight 46, rainy, high winds. Expecting snow showers Monday through Wednesday next week.
Guilder Pond to East Mountain Woods Road Stealth Camp
12.7 Miles
High today 64, tonight 46, rainy, high winds. Expecting snow showers Monday through Wednesday next week.
Woke
up at Jess Treat's, breakfast at 7 consisted of scrambled eggs, yogurt and
granola and coffee. We rode to Tyringham
Main Road to leave truck and Jag Happy, then back to Guilder Pond.
The blister is still on my left heel, we are putting a bandage donut around it today. Both big toes feel like dead wood.
We got a late start at 9:45. We are going to try to make it to Tom Leonard Shelter tonight, 14.4 miles. It took us 3.5 hours to get down Jug End, which was the official end of the Taconic Range. It was wet and slippery due to rain yesterday and this morning. The trail was standing in water that we waded through, therefore we hiked all day with wet feet.
There were several board walks through swampy ground. At the end of one, I stepped off onto a rock and twisted my ankle and fell to the ground but got up and kept going.
The blister is still on my left heel, we are putting a bandage donut around it today. Both big toes feel like dead wood.
We got a late start at 9:45. We are going to try to make it to Tom Leonard Shelter tonight, 14.4 miles. It took us 3.5 hours to get down Jug End, which was the official end of the Taconic Range. It was wet and slippery due to rain yesterday and this morning. The trail was standing in water that we waded through, therefore we hiked all day with wet feet.
There were several board walks through swampy ground. At the end of one, I stepped off onto a rock and twisted my ankle and fell to the ground but got up and kept going.
Just
past Sheffield Egremont Road is Shays’
Rebellion Monument, a stone marker commemorating the last skirmish of a bloody
farmers’ revolt led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays against
government taxes and tactics in 1787.
At West Road crossing someone had left jugs of water with a note saying next good water was at Tom Leonard Shelter 8 miles away.
At 3:30 we crossed a road (Boardman Street) with a sign that said 5.1 to Tom Leonard Shelter. We didn't make it, we stopped at 6:30 just short of Woods Road and pitched our tent, exhausted.
We’d had about 6 miles of pretty level hiking with both ends rough, starting out with Jug End and ending up with East Mountain. The late start hurt us today.
My ankle is swollen tonight. We had just enough time to do our usual evening set-up of our tent, cook our evening meal and crawl in the sack before dark at 8. Alpine, a thru hiker, came by right before dark on his way to Tom Leonard Shelter.
At West Road crossing someone had left jugs of water with a note saying next good water was at Tom Leonard Shelter 8 miles away.
At 3:30 we crossed a road (Boardman Street) with a sign that said 5.1 to Tom Leonard Shelter. We didn't make it, we stopped at 6:30 just short of Woods Road and pitched our tent, exhausted.
We’d had about 6 miles of pretty level hiking with both ends rough, starting out with Jug End and ending up with East Mountain. The late start hurt us today.
My ankle is swollen tonight. We had just enough time to do our usual evening set-up of our tent, cook our evening meal and crawl in the sack before dark at 8. Alpine, a thru hiker, came by right before dark on his way to Tom Leonard Shelter.
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