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BMT Day 6: Trail Fairies AWOL Now

Day 6

July 27, 2020

Indian Rock Shelter to Double Hogpen Gap, Mile 66.6


DID:

  • Succumbed to instant karma with a two and a half mile road walk.

  • Waded through endless nettles on overgrown trail…no trail fairies with weed whackers gussying things up for just this one hiker.

  • Amassed a nice collection of bug bites and maybe a spot of poison ivy.

  • Hiked in the rain for an hour and discovered my umbrella has a hole in it, which makes it periodically dump water down the back of my shirt.

NOTICED:

  • Birds: Oven Bird, Kingfisher, Eastern Bluebird, Broad-Winged Hawk

  • Feral pigs on the trail (people can shoot them any time, any season, so they’re quick to run away, thank God.)

  • Zero other people on trail today.

  • That rasping sound a deer makes when startled.

  • Two black butterflies with polka dotted bodies sucking the juice out of the tiger lillies.

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