Date: 2018-05-26
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Sat Day 103 5/26 GypsWe were still fighting two sections of sharp rocks that just tenderize and pulverize the bottoms of your feet. There's really just no place to put your foot down on any flat solid surface. So your whole body weight gets focused on some very small amount of foot surface. Because the surface is so small the pounds per square inch proportionately increase and it bruises the bottom of your foot. I know of people who have had to leave the trail because of stress fractures in the foot walking over this section of Trail. This section I mean from Palmerton Pennsylvania through the end of High Point Monument New Jersey. It's not quite as bad as yesterday when we entered New Jersey. We are getting some stretches that are gentler on our feet. But again that's a point of perspective what is gentler on your feet. But we're making good time the weather is actually sunny and warm. We get to Culver's Gap where it crosses 206. We heard that gifts bike or bar is a good place to stop from Sugarfoot. He was at 78 year old fella who had served as the treasurer for the ATC. I think he had 30 years of volunteer service with the ATC. So it's very sunny and hot by the time we get some chips around noon. We hike along Route 206 to get the Jim. There's one woman who takes the orders runs the bar runs the kitchen and does everything in sight. Contrary to the report for a vegetarian this food is mediocre to poor. However the ambiance is phenomenal. We are sitting outside under canopy with a cool breeze blowing on a hot day on the edge of a lake. I get my phone plugged in charging order some sweet potatoes fries and a salad. The socks I'm wearing I realized have some kind of hard something has colaiste as a hard pad on the bottom of my sock on each foot. Probably some of my body fluids coming out of my seat. So I go in the bathroom take my Bronner's and wash my socks right up in the sink. I take him outside and Lamb on the hot asphalt and go back Under The Canopy. This is a pretty loose biker bar. As long as you're not breaking up the place they're not too concerned with what you do. I will say it was phenomenally nice. There were gazebos trees to sit under this nice canopy that I'm sitting under it was a very nice outside. Both our backs and I fall asleep at our table in our chairs. Baby bird is there why Matt back at Delaware Water Gap at the farm bakery. He's with another through hiker I don't know. After we've been there for like 2 or 3 hours we decide it's time to move on. Somebody says there's ice cream a quarter of a mile away. We start to walk but I get a sense it's not I backed checks her phone it's a mile and a half. No way. As we get back on the chair old baby bird is getting on as well. So we tell him he can't ass. He declines he's a flip Flopper. This is his first attempt at a 20-mile day. We have a pretty solid climb up off of 206 in to the mountain. For some reason my rhythm is right and we blast right up the mountain. Baby bird fell off the back but catches up to us when we're getting water. It's so hot that I'm taking my Blue Rag my only cotton item and drenching my head and shirt and back with Cold Stream water. I try and keep my body temperature down. If you're super hot when you get to Camp there's nothing to cool you off if there's no water source at the camp. You just stay hot all night. Not a good plan if you're looking for a good night sleep. We get to the top of Sunrise Mountain where there's a very large to pavillon. You're not allowed to Camp there. There's about 30 Boy Scouts who are setting up camp in the Pavilion. I wouldn't want to be around all that noise anyway hiker midnight is 7 p.m. they won't be sleeping till long into the dark. We hiked on for quite a bit until we find a stealth spot. We're set up by the time baby bird goes by. He likes our spot and we wish him well as he heads out to complete his first 20 mile day. It said his Achilles was bothering him and I cautioned him to go easy and rest it. Rarely does anybody listen.