Date: 2008-08-30
To: Fort Montgomery, NY
Miles today: 62.8

Watching College Football sure is great...here's the latest...Mt. Algo Shelter - Telephone Pioneers Shelter - Day 57 - 722.8 - 743.9 - August 27thAnother great day today. Took a nice mid-morning break on the Housatonic today where I dunked my head in the river to cool off (& proceeded to actually get it to stay spiked up for the rest of the day). We also crossed into NY and saw 4 NOBOs while crossing a meadow section and getting water at a nursery. Water is very hard to come by in NY, NJ, & PA, so you have to take it when you can. We also walked past the AT railroad stop on the Metro North line. It takes hikers straight from the trail to NYC on the weekends. NY has lots of cool stuff like this near the trail, but has few mountains on the trail. NoCar, Stretch, & I so far tonight have the shelter to ourselves. We might be seeing Tommy/Slow-Mo/Mothballs sometime soon which will be nice since I haven't seen him since Maine. Should be anotther great one tomorrow.Telephone Pioneers Shelter - RPH Cabin - Day 58 - 743.9 - 760.5 - August 28thThe highlights from another fine day: The shelter that we stopped at for our morning break had a functional doorbell. We had lunch at a great NY deli. We ordered pizza for delivery at the cabin because it's located near a road. Oh, & Karl, the ultramarathoner trying to break the AT speed record passed us today. Other than that, NY is fairly flat with a few views of the low valleys. Last full day with NoCar tomorrow and we're stopping at a Monastery for the night. Oh, & we've met up again with Mothballs tonight - should be another great day tomorrow!RPH Cabin - Graymoor Center - Day 59 - 760.5 - 779.3 - August 29thBoring day hiking-wise, but Mothballs joined us today and the 4 of us had a great time. The weather was overcast nearly all day and the rain is supposed to move in after we're done tomorrow at lunch time. We orded pizza again tonight at the shelter at the Monastery which was awesome! Got to love NY Pizza! I'm very excited about NoCar finishing tomorrow and our stay at the Holiday Inn Express, town, laundry, and of course, College Football...Go Dawgs!!!Graymoor Center - Fort Montgomery, NY - Day 60 - 779.3 - 785.7 - August 30thAfter sleeping in until 7:15 this morning after last night's rain, the four of us glided into NoCar's finish line at the Bear Mountain Bridge. It was a unique experience to be there at NoCar's last blaze/step on the trail. After getting lunch, we said goodbye to Mothballs until tomorrow because he is staying with a friend tonight outside of town. NoCar, Stretch & I crashed into the Holiday Inn Express and have enjoyed a day of relaxation and celebration. It was also nice to watch many college football games all day. It looked as if UGA is off to a good start for the season. It was not easy missing the game today, but I made it through ok. We did have dinner at a BBQ place in town that actually had good southern BBQ. I was actually pretty shocked about that. Well, NoCar is leaving tomorrow morning and the Stretch, Mothballs, & myself are going to do a short day out of town. We have decided to try to do what we are calling the "September 600" - 600 miles in the 30 days of September. We're hoping to include many marathon days (including starting with 26.5 on September 1st), a midnight to midnight 50 mile day, and some night hiking. Ozzie is trying to catch us right now and is only ~40 miles behind...hopefully he catches us in the next week or so. Back on the trail again tomorrow...HOW 'BOUT THEM DAWGS!!!