Date: 2007-09-03
To: Cooper Lodge Shelter
Miles today: 6.1
Weather: clear sky

mi.6.1sleep Hammockdest. Cooper Lodge Shelter *Mileage fudge to match up with AT miles. day 53 Well I got a great nights sleep last night. I took a shower right before bed. I had that whole clean sheets and freshly showered feeling. The first time I had showered 2 days in a row for awhile, I thank I still had a slight funk to me. I tried to sleep in as long as I could before I got out of bed. I was the only hiker up, but the people from the hostel working in the resturant had been up for awhile. I went down and saw them getting ready for business. I asked them if there was anything I could do to help. I ened up wiping the tables and sweeping the floors. Don't let anyone tell you resturant work doesn't get you anywhere. This is the second time that I had used it for a work for stay. The cool part is they fead us once again. Really if there is a back home again resturant locally, you should really check it out. They are great cooks and the prices didn't look bad at all. Plus all their food is healthy and organic. I ended up not giving them anything for my stay. I did some work and they really didn't have anything else for me. I got the feeling to that they really didn't want to take any money from me either. I walked around and made sure to say bye to everyone there. Reguardless of what you hear, they really are nice people here. It is worth the stop if you want a cheap, clean hostel, with nice people working there. I think a lot of their bad rap comes from people who haven't stayed or the party crowd that doesn't mesh well with them. Anyways I caught the 12:15pm bus out of town. I got dropped back off in front of the Inn. I got a little bit of trail magic from a guy that got onto the bus with me. He was geting off to work at one of the hotels. But he gave me a few packs of corn nuts. A first for me, haven't tried them before. He offered me a whole big box, but I am already carrying too much food. The hike up to the shelter wasn't bad at all. I decided to end early. I can make up for it with a couple big days. The terrain is really starting to open up for me to do that. I stopped just after 3:30. I did make some progress in my book. This is probibly going to be my first book in forever. But it's funny. Confusing at times, but funny. I setup next to the tent platforms and cooked dinner. I did make the .2 walk up to the summit of mt killington. I think being a monday the resturant and bar was closed. For best best, just more money I would have wasted. I did get some great views. I thought about staying up there until the sunset, but that was still over an hour or so away. So I headed down. If I get up early enough I am going to try and catch the sunrise up there. I personally think the sunrise is way better than the sunset. Everyone sees the sunset o it get back outside, how many people get t enjoy the sunrise.                                                                  Side note. I am hanging pretty high. I think the shelter is at 3500 feet or so. I really need to start camping lower in elevation. The wind is blowing something fierce. I am feeling a nice low and warm campsite tomorrow night.