Date: 2018-06-25
From: stealth camping

To: stealth camping
Miles today: 16.8
Weather: clear sky

The rain last night made today a super nice day to hike. I felt stupid for not making it to the shelter/campsite last night. It was literally only a 45 min walk away lol. Since Sky still didn't have any water, we had to stop at the shelter because it had the closest water. What was extra stupid though is that the walk to the shelter was 0.3 miles down the mountain, and then the water source (spring) was another 0.2 miles down the mountain. Sky kept joking "looks like we're climbing Mt Greylock twice!". Idiot. The top of Mt Greylock was not what we were expecting. It was huge, had this giant war memorial tower, a road, and a lodge with rooms and a restaurant. There were families everywhere just hanging out. We were so confused. But happy to see food!! We even had DOUBLE magic! The hostess at the restaurant pulled out this trail magic bag that some family left behind for hikers and we were the first ones to pilferage it! It was loaded with super healthy vegan snacks, even bags of instant organic black bean humus! SCORE. Since we had literally just resupplied yesterday, neither of us felt like we really needed any of this stuff. So we ending up trading out a lot of our food for the better food lol. The second trail magic was from this couple day hiking on the mountain looking for AT thru-hikers. They gave us chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and a soda! They were even carrying around a jar of vanilla frosting for you to lather up your cookies with lol. Skywalker ended up getting my cookie and brownie, so he was super stoked. We ended up having a great lunch on the mountain and didn't have to pay for any of it!I realized today that even if we hadn't resupplied at all yesterday, we still could have gotten by. With the hiker food from Sunshine's mom yesterday and the trail magic bag today, we could have lived on that alone for a couple days. For the rest of the day, Skywalker and i kept chanting "The trail provides! The trail provides!"The hike down the mountain was honestly the hardest part. My knees always feel like they're gonna collapse in on themselves on these declines. I usually have to go really slow and Sky makes fun of me. Today he was talking a lot of shit and kept yelling "Just run it out! Just run it out!". And then mid sentence, he falls straight back and busts his ass on a rock lol. Karma's a bitch bro.  We officially passed into Vermont today! I've finished about a quarter of the trail so far. Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine contain the next quarter. And shit is about to get real folks. Like really freaking HARD. Since Sky started in Georgia, he's 75% done. So today he kept saying that he was on his "victory lap". So cocky lol. I think New Hampshire is gonna be extremely humbling. A cool thing about Vermont though is that it has its own big hiking trail called the Long Trail. It's about 300 miles long, so about a 3 week trek. The AT and the LT overlap for the first 105 miles, so we're gonna start seeing a lot of LT thru-hikers real soon. A lot of AT hikers after finishing their thru-hike go back to Vermont and complete the LT since they've already done a third of it. So that's something to think about!