Date: 2018-06-19
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Tues Day 128 6/19Since I was out late last night with Rich and Kim and it was pouring rain this morning I got a late start. I didn't start hiking until like 7:30. The trail was wonderful Vermont Trail. But that I mean it was dirt and fairly smooth. It was always some place to put your foot flat on the ground. The woods were quite beautiful and we went through a variety of different types of forests. The hemlock and the white pine have the softest trails. They also can be fairly open in your understudy. On a downhill somehow I lost my balance and had a complete fall. In the process of fall there's a point where you give up trying to stay on your feet and you focus on how you're going to land. In this situation as usual it happened so fast but I'm not really sure why I fell. But as I was twisting around in the air trying to maintain me balance I knew this was a crash in the making. I was able to somehow land on my chest in the leaves in between two piles of rocks. 6 in either way I'm laying on my chest and face in piles of jagged granite. I was very pleased with my Landing. And actually came up quite happy that it was all fine. When you land face first inches from sharp granite it's easy to be happy. Everybody falls on this Trail. You don't think your extra clumsy or something. If you can fall get right back up without any major problems that's a successful fall. We went through a very nice State Park with lots of camping opportunities and Facilities. As we left the park we crossed a bridge that was over a very nice waterfall and stream. Vermont it's just such a nice date through. There was some good up and down for the trail surface friendly is just enjoyable hiking so. So we were hiking from water source to water source. That way I'm not caring a lot of wait in the form of water. On this day I did plan to get water at a certain location and then look for stealth spot. There was no mortar for about 5 miles after that. Somehow I missed the Stream, the stream was dry and the Water Source was undependable. Either way I got to the point where it was the end of the day and there was no water for the evening I got a second wind of energy and was able to hike on. There was a icon on the guide for a lookout house. This was private property off the trail with no water available. However it said that you could camp there and that you could the rooftop ladder have been repaired. So after hiking 2 miles past where I thought I would get water I had a sense that I was close. We checked goshawks and it was only a tenth of a mile away. After hiking intensive while it was another two tenths of a mile into the house. When you've been sleeping in a tent or you realize you're far far from civilization it's amazing how outstanding the simplest structure kansiime. This was a nice cabin date windows, adore that shut, and a fireplace,. It also has a second for sleeping deck. Outside it had a lot or off the side of the house and side of the roof to an observation deck. The view from this desk was outstanding. It was a 360 degree view. I had to wear my puffy cuz it was cold Wendy. It always is when you go up on this observation Jackson Fire Towers. So we ate dinner up on the observation deck. This is one of the better views of the entire Trail. It was green and every direction and you could see layer after layer after layer of mountains. I'm not very good at telling what I'm looking at in terms of the specific mountains or directions. But this was just romantic and it's Beauty. This was the Green Mountain State at its best. And it's a private property opportunity that people are sharing with hiker on the trail. We thought of camping right at the house or even just treat it like a shelter and sleeping inside. It would be much easier than setting up our tent and and hammock. But I told other people might come in later and be noisy and that would not be good sleeping. So we went back down the trail a bit and still in the woods. That was such a good idea. I believe Ulysses and view where the first to show up. They were fairly reasonable. Then there are three other guys one of them literally running up the hill. I called them the noisy boys. They were ridiculously loud. They sounded very loud to us stealthing down the trail. I can only imagine how loud it sounded to Ulysses and you. Around 8:30 or so the noisy boys decided to hike on and leave everybody a chance to some sense of a good night sleep.