Date: 2007-08-23
From: hostel

To: Past Lonesome Lake Hut
Miles today: 3.3

mi. 3.3sleep hammockdest. Stealth site past Lonesome Lake hut day 42 Ok the goal of gettingout of town early didn't happen. I think we left around 3pm. I will have to say I got a horrible nights sleep, again. I woke up after going to bed after midnight to someone snoring pretty loudly, again. It was around 4am. There was no way I was going back to sleep with that. So I got up and went to the kicten and wrote some emails on my pocketmail. I'm used to this at home. I don't always sleep the night, I wake up a lot, and don't go to bed early anyways. I was sitting there and someone else got up to go to the bathroom. I commentrd on the snoring and he said that is why he is carrying ear plugs. I said I don't shelter and don[ have any. He went and gave me his extra pair. That was some great off trail magic. It helped me sleep the night. I did get a few things done. After walking around to just about every outfitter or outdoor store, I only scored my shorts and a spoon. I know there is one in Hanover and the bus there will take you to an EMS outfitter, so that looks promising. The guy at the hostel told me a funny thing about Mo the clown from yesterday. He actually knows the guy. He is a family friend and would come to his birthday parties. He was saying that Mo is a Justice of the Peace. He also prefroms wedding and funerals. He said that after he got out of the hospital one of his friends passed. His wish was to have his ashes spread on one of the mountains with Mo prosiding in full clown getup. He said it looked pretty funny and the tourons were giving them crazy looks. All of that talk and other things got me thinking about what I want done after I go. I'll put some thought into it and come up with something good and fitting. When we were packing up the guy at the hostel came out to say bye and send us off. He said that if we were ever back in the area that we had a place to stay. Like I said, a great guy. I plan on stopping by if I am ever back in the area. His hostel ws by donation. I ended up giving him $10 for it, half the New England Dark roast coffee I bought {I didn't want 11oz and he is a big coffee drinker}, and a six pack of his favorite beer. We left town and headed south. Today we finally hit the last AMC hut. Neither of us wanted to deal with a work for stay. We got water and made a deposit at the privy. The map showed a flat-ish spot about a half mile away. We figured there had to be some stealth spots there. Just before the hut is a small lake, hence the name. What do we find on the lake but a small rowboat. What do we find in said rowboat but 2 oars. The bad part was no oar locks, just bent nails on the oars. They were in the wrong spot to get an serious distance of paddling in. What to I also find in the baot but some water. Not too much. W look a it for a minute.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ey are too big of sticks in the mudd to lighten up and have fun when the opportunity comes their way. As we were leaving Firework spots someone and yells . It was someone he had been hiking with before headed southbound just past the hut. He hiked the trail before and is flip floping this year. We ended up finding a stealth spot together. It was nice to have a couple southbounders to talk to. He even broke out some Jim Bean he is carrying. I think I am going to add something to that effect in Hanover. The thing is I only really need 375ml and the smallest I think I can find is 750ml. But it is in a plastic bottle. I'll figure something out. We had dinner and talked for awhile. Someone mentioned something I thought was funny. Somehow a really small campfire got made. I'm not sure how. The comment was made that I like it when it is illegal to have campfires, that means there is plenty of firewood laying around. I thought that was pretty good. No one would be able to tell where this small one was anyways. I feel kind of bad. When I went to put my sleeping shirt on, a liner sock fell out. I don't wear liner socks. It was from the northbounders that I did laundry with. I fell bad b/c of that and he was the one who gave me the ear plugs. A bad way to say thanks. The hostel had a shelf of odd socks people left. Hopefully they could find a match. On a related note. I have been seeing a lot of socks along the trail. The only thing I can think of is people are tieing them to the outside of their packs, and they are falling off. When mine start to get worn, I may have to start picking some of them up if I see a good replacement.