Pick your poison...

6/3/08 - They shut down the bar just as the Pens went into double overtime last night!! What a let down... woke up still wondering who won!?? (Pittsburgh in triple overtime!!)

• Breakfast at Goodies. Had a dish just like the Good Start (2 eggs, homefries, & toast) at Sisters (in Confluence) but 20 cents cheaper! That IS a good start!
• Picked up new shoes & mailed old ones home... just in case. Can't wait to get that package.
• Left town around 10 am, faced a decent climb just outside of Duncannon & then picked his way through a boulder field...
• Nature extracts its revenge: came across a copperhead blocking the trail - apparently it didn't take too kindly to having its lunch tenderized the week before. None the less Amos did not sniff it to see if it smelled like cucumbers (maybe that's just something I'd be tempted to do) - he did take a very cautious photo and then Cu blazed around where he wound up in poison ivy instead.
• AND another bird came charging after him... I'm going to have to assume he's either venturing too close to their nests or they think his beard looks sexy... maybe just homey.
• Stopped for snacks at Clarks Ferry (4.5 mi) and Peters Mtn Shelter (11 mi) but an amateur meteorologist with a bad weather forecast told him that the chance for rain was low low low - at least until 1 am. She realized about a half an hour later - she was dead wrong... sorry!
• It became really dark as he approached the ruins of Yellow Springs Village & started raining cats & dogs about 10 minutes after that. His fancy ultralight camping umbrella didn't survive the canoe trip, so by the time he hiked the additional 6 mi to Rausch Gap Shelter, he was pretty waterlogged. Glasses nearly impossible to see through & water managed to seep into his headlamp - but it stayed lit! (now I have a scene from Pete's Dragon running though my head) He assured me the durability of his headlamp was very fortunate as he would have been screwed (with a capital 'S') without it.
• Got in around 10:30 pm - all in all hiked 29 miles - which is the longest he's hiked in 1 day by 1 mile!!