Date: 2007-04-25
From: Tri-Corner Knob Shelter

To: Standing Bear Farm
Miles today: 18.1
Weather: overcast clouds

Date: 4/25/07Mileage: 18.1 milesElevation: Date: 4/25/07Starting: Tri-Corner Knob ShelterStarting temperature: Starting time: 7:50 Ending location: Standing Bear FarmEnding temperature: Ending time: Bedtime temperature: Weather: high 90'sBreakfast: oatmealLunch: Dinner: burger and salad Sleeping details: hostelMoney spent:        Trail food: 30        Town food: 20        Lodging: 15        Gear: 2.50        Travel:Trailmagic:People around me:Online Journal Entry:We left early and hiked hard to get to the hostel. When it got hard I would say with each step food, shower, bed to motivate my speed.Bruce met us at Mount Cammerer with his truck and orange juice. Bruce is going to hike with us a few weeks before he has to go back to Montana to work.   We eat some nuts and took the stuff out of our backpacks to slack pack the next 2 miles to standing bear.When we came out at Green Tree Road leading to Standing Bear Bruce was waiting for us. Everyone got in the back of his truck. I was dying to get to the shelter and they was all just setting in the truck drinking as in no hurry. I tried to be patient and took my boots off and soaked them in the creek. After that I was like can we please go so I can get a shower.We got to the shelter and took the cabin. Standing Bear is a interesting place. Its not close to town so you don't shuttle in for food and supplies like other hostels. They have a stock type store to buy things and pick up mail drop packages. The hostel is laid out with different shed type buildings. A privy which was the worse smelling privy I have seen. A shower shed with at least hot water. Its more like some outdoor shower. The kitchen and another shed with laundry and a computer. When I unloaded my pack I couldn't find my clothes stuff sack. After searching the truck and everything I thought maybe it fell out of the truck back where I put my stuff out of my pack into the truck to slack pack. Bruce was kind enough to drive me back to check. When we got back no bag. We seen Blaze and Brady in a car load of people. They said copperhead picked it up and was carrying it forward asking if anyone knew who left their clothes. This is the type family the AT has and its great. She had blisters but they thought she was coming to davenport shelter. I told Bruce I was going to hike the mile back to the shelter and see if she was there and had my clothes. He said he would because I had on crocks. He is a very kind person. I took a nap in his truck and when he returned he said she wasn't there. We went back to the hostel and I showered and wore my hot rain suit while my only clothes washed and dried. After all that Bruce, Iceman, and others from the hostel drove to town after groceries and burgers. Suspect didn't go he stayed with his mom who was in visiting him at the hostel.We got back late and Bruce went back to the gap and slept in his truck which has a sleeper bed in it to wait on Copperhead in the morning. I was very late getting any sleep because after all that's I still had to do all the town duties like bounce boxing and preparing food in baggies for the pack.