Date: 2018-06-24
From: Dalton, MA motel

To: stealth camping
Miles today: 11.2

We got started SO late today. It was impossible to get Sky moving. First he had to smoke a cigarette, then call his mom, then smoke a joint, then pack his shit. I wanted to kill him lol. While i waited i washed my cooking pot in the bathroom sink for the first time. It was SO gross lol. I also washed my socks in the sink and that was just the grossest water i've ever seen. Literally black. Then we went back to the juice/coffee shop place and had breakfast. We didn't get back to the trail until 11pm! On our way to the trail head we past through a small parking lot and ran into another hiker, Sunshine. I'd only met her briefly a couple days ago. The cool thing about seeing her though was that her mom was there visiting her and had a huge box full of goodies! Sunshine had already taken what she wanted from the box, so her mom let Skywalker and I take whatever we wanted! I got like 10 Clif bars, 5 packets of vegan Nutella, Ritz crackers, and trail mix. It was quite the snag. Happy trail magic to us! Every time i complained about our late start today, Skywalker made sure to remind me that if we had gotten started earlier we would have missed the MAGIC lol. That's one way to look at it. The trail passed through another town today, Cheshire, MA. We planned to do our resupply here because the trail went right by a Dollar General, which is way better than the gas stations in Dalton. I kept telling Sky that this resupply had to be quick, in and out. We still had so much hiking to do. But of course, the first place we pass going into Cheshire advertised ice cream and soda, so Sky had to stop and get ice cream and soda. lolOn our way to Dollar G, we ran into hikers T-Rex, Napper, and Doser. They said there was a storm coming, so they were staying in town at a hostel and gonna hike Mt. Greylock in the morning. Mt. Greylock is this giant ass mountain in MA. It's 3,500 ft, the highest point in the state. It's a 7 mile climb from top to bottom. It plateaus halfway up for about 2 miles, but still a bitch to climb. We told them we were going up, no matter the weather. After they walked away, Skywalker and I looked at each other and in unison shouted "PUSSIES!".We didn't make it up the mountain either lol. We loitered outside of Dollar G for like an hour, ate a shit ton of junk food, filled our packs to the brim, and then started up the mountain at 6pm. Terrible! Haha. We went about 3 miles up and then just camped. We were trying to make it to a shelter/campsite, but we didn't wanna get there and be setting up camp in the pouring rain. The next water source is at the campsite though, and since Sky didn't fill up on water in town like an idiot, i'm having to ration my water with him. Leach. Whenever Sky and i camp together, we usually just throw both of our bear bags on the same rope line. Usually less work that way. But tonight both of our food bags our so heavy that we can't get them up in the tree lol! It's at least 40 lbs of food between the both of us. We got them like 7ft off the ground. Real pathetic looking lol. Tomorrow we gotta get our shit together though. We gotta go up and over and then some!