Date: 2011-04-25
From: Niday

To: Lost Spectical Gap
Miles today: 15.0

I slept wonderfully in my hamick. I woke up after the sun had been up for a while. Bluemoon gave me. Liter of water, since my camelback was squirting water whenever it'd lay horizontal or have any sort of presure. That bummed me a bit since I though I fixed it with a new nozzel after I had lost the bite. Right before I left camp I signed the register and the water leaked all over the page. Super Dave even held up the tube for me as i wrote. After a couple minuite of walking I noticed somthing inside my shoe. Assuming it was my shoe falling apart I kept on walking, til it was realy bothering me. Plus I had to stop take my pack off ( only because it would leak) take my shoe off, now that's a lot of work. I was glad I had inside m shoe was a centapede and it turned the toe of my sock green, of all things. The thing was fine and climbed into the leaves as I trecked north. I told super Dave about it, he seemed surprised, and then sped past me. There was a steep climb, which made me thirsty and sweaty. On top was a benchi chatted with bluemoonw and sparton. We talked about Audie Murphy, since there was a monument a mile up the trail where they found his body. I felt uneducated since I didn't hear of him before. I later checked my voicemail for the first time. I had to make a password a listen to my phone talk me through whatever it wanted. None of the messages were usefull one wasn't even for me. Plus it killed like 10 minutes on my phone. It was HOT. I went to the shelter which was a third of a mile off the trail for lunch. I chilled a couple hours. I took off my socks and to my surprise the tips of my toes were black, I assume from the centipede, same foot and all. I was a bit freaked out. Without anyone to talk to about it I wasn't sure if I should walk back to the road and hitch to the hospital. But I decide I could probably live through it. Back on the trail, this part being rocky, I met trail baby. She's more like a grandma then a baby, but she was real friendly. I showed her my toes and she thought some thing from the water had sucked the blood, leaving it near the skin. She told me I shouldn't worry about it unless it hurts or the blackness spreads. Later I met a girl and a guy sobo thruhikers, coming back after a snowy winter. I got some advice from them, the girl rambiler was wearing a mosquito net over her head. The guy was named 15, told me how he consumed a ton of food at the homeplace an all youcan eat restrant. I had some more climbs with rocks, they told me Dragons tooth was just a rocky ridge. Turns out it had legit climbing, except I was desending. I had to use my hands. There were metal bars inserted in the rocks. There was also a part where there where a bunch of skinny ridges kinda like long step inwhich I tried not to die. I had to walk backwards downhill on a skinny ledge. Once I found a camping area i was ready to be done, only problem, no water. But a day hiker came by and gave me some. Oh yeah. It took me my third set of trees to find the correct distence for my hemock first one too long second I was sitting on the ground third just right. I'm alone tonight, I hope I don't get cold.