Date: 2010-06-21
From: Elkwallow

To: Compton Gap
Miles today: 0.0

21 June 2010, Compton Gap   The day started out like any other day. I got up and packed up and headed north.   I skip a section of the trail and did a road walk early in the morning to hook up with Hopper and her sisters who were only five miles in front of me. I will come back and do this section that I skipped in a week after I get to Harpers Ferry. I will be taking a week off in a sense from hiking north. I will still be hiking but I am going back to picked up the sections that I skipped and to redo the parts of the Shenandoah¢s that I road walked. This requires renting a car and going back to Atkins to get the section I skipped there as well. I am planning on visiting Gettysburg on the way back to Harpers Ferry.    I skip this section just to catch Hopper today to see how she planned on hooking back up when her sisters left. When I caught Hopper and her sisters I got mixed feelings from her. She seemed to blow me off and did not even introduce me to anyone in her group. All she did was give me a hard time about skipping the section to catch her. Then she said snidely as she hiked off, that if I wanted to make plans I could hike with them. With the way she said that I had no intentions of hiking with them after that. I felt like crap after being treated like that. I decided to go into Terripen Station Hostel for the night and get resupplied on food to get me to Harpers Ferry. I also went to the post office to check to see if I had mail. I have had a few people from my web sites if they could send me some things and this is where I told them they could send things. I was disappointed when I arrived at the post office and there was nothing there waiting for me.   When I got to the hostel the following hikers were there L Flocko, Deja vu, Dr Food, Pepper, Chili, Spoons, TC, Wallflower, Lift and Step, Uncus, The Wolfpack, Scatters, and Power Nap.   Later the following people that stayed the night went to dinner and played trivia in groups at the restaurant, Pepper, Chili, Spoons, TC, Wallflower, Lift and Step, Uncus, The Wolfpack, Scatters, Power Nap, Wallflower. In my group called Blue Blaze were Spoons, Pepper, Chili, Wallflower, and TC. We won the trivia contest. After all was over everyone had been drinking except me and Wallflower so we both had to drive a vehicle back to the hostel.   Tomorrow Spoons and I have to take the blue blaze from the hostel then back to Compton Gap and then return to the hostel blue blaze where we will head north. The reason we have to do this is because we ended up hitch hiking into the Hostel from Compton Gap yesterday and we needed to get that section of the trail done that we skipped. I am wondering if I will run into Hopper in that area because she was planning to camp someplace around Compton Gap tonight. If that is the case I will run into them. I hope she has a better outlook on things tomorrow. If she asks me to hike with them I might just stick around with them tomorrow. Only tomorrow will tell on that one.   While we were all sitting around at the hostel tonight a few of the hikers there were also at the shelter with Hopper and her sisters last night. A couple chimed in asking why the hell Hopper had let her sisters carry all the crap they had for gear. They said she should have looked through there packs before she let them carry it up to the shelter. They were overweight packs full stuff that they did not need. They said they could tell that her sisters were miserable carrying all the stuff. I did not comment but only to say that Hopper told them what to carry ahead of time and agreed that she should have looked through their gear and packs for them before they carried all that stuff, if she wanted to be helpful. They all laughed and talked about how comical it all was up there that night with all the useless gear they had.