Date: 2022-06-11
From: CorrnadoÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs Pizzeria in Stormville, NY

To: Telephone Pioneers Shelter 
Miles today: 12.2
Weather: scattered clouds

OMG!! What is it with noise and camping in New York!! We have not stayed anywhere yet where we couldn¢t hear traffic of some kind. We camped behind a restaurant last night so we knew we would have some traffic noise till about 10pm or so. We did have a couple walk in about 9:15pm, talking in normal voices and then shining their flashlights all over including towards our tent. I asked them to Shhh once and they quieted down but at 10pm they were still shining their lights back and forth and lighting up our tent like a search light looking for an escaped convict. I went out to talk to them and they were holding these little lantern-like lights. The reason I came out went totally out of my head. All I could think was ¢Holy crap! How heavy are those lights! They look like they weigh a ton!¢ Then I remembered why I was really there. I explained about their lights flashing through our tent. They apologized and said they were having trouble getting the lower half of their tent to stay up. Their tent was shaped kind of like a cocoon with a big arch over your heads and a smaller arch over the feet. The arch at the feet kept collapsing flat. I didn¢t know how that type of tent worked so I was no help. So just before sunrise, the business across the road started up. I believe it is a cement plant but the racket was unbelievable! It sounded like stones being poured into trucks and hammering and banging. Just unbelievable!!Coffeebean was feeling a little better. The chills were gone (Our on-call nurse said that he could have been running a low-grade fever.) We¢ll see how he does as the day progresses. When we got out of the tent the canopy was dewy. (I noticed the couple must have given up on the foot arch because it was laying flat.) Coffeebean went into the little market store and bought a breakfast wrap and a half gallon of milk. (The milk cost $5.98!). We shared the wrap and milk for breakfast but I only ate a little of the wrap, preferring an Instant Breakfast instead. We were on our way by 7:35. The day was already feeling warm and you could feel the humidity in the air. They are calling for rain again tomorrow morning. The trail is getting drier (just in time for more rain) but there are still spots that get no sun so they are still really muddy.Hiking wasn¢t bad today. A few ups but nothing horrible. I think we are getting close to having our trail legs and lungs. Yay!Coffeebean and I have been talking about our lunch diet and about how much we hate it (tortillas and tuna packets!). When we resupply tomorrow we are going to get regular size Snickers bars (high in calorie), nuts, and protein bars. We will try those for lunch for a while and see how that works. We will get more calories from those than the tuna and tortilla. Today we saw more stone walls/fences. They were about 4 feet high and ran in both directions. One way we could see the end. The other way just went on and on. I take pictures every time I see them. I think they are just a marvel of workmanship. We really wanted to do 12 miles today, if Coffeebean was up to it. He felt fairly well during the day but as it got later he began feeling queasy again and then started having gastrointestinal problems too. We made it to the Telephone Pioneers Shelter. It has a privy! When we worked at Nortel Networks, we were members of the Telephone Pioneers. They are a group of people that work in the telephony industry and do community work. One year Coffeebean helped repaint the United States on a children¢s playground. (There was a hiker at the shelter and she said that no one she met could explain the name of this shelter. Now she knows.)The tent sites here are pretty slopey but we found one that wasn¢t too too bad and it¢s close to the privy. The rain forecast changed and it was supposed to be 100% at 4pm but we got nothing. Now they are talking 50% at 11am tomorrow and going upwards till 3pm. Hope it stays out long enough for us to run in for resupply and then find a stealth site before the rain really starts. Or maybe it will just move out of the area all together!Well we hoped this would be a quieter shelter because we heard no traffic. Then doesn¢t someone crank up their lawnmower! We can¢t win!Hiked 12.2 miles today.