Date: 2018-06-03
From: Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut

To: Great Barrington
Miles today: 50.6

5/30:Dave and Lisa dropped me off back on the AT in Cornwall Bridge,Connecticut where I had stopped last year. I hiked 8.3 miles to acampsite.5/31:Hiked 13.3 miles to a site just outside Salisbury, CT. Like the daybefore it was hot and humid. Not a good day for a hike.6/01:Hiked 10.8 miles. Up and down all day. 1,920' Bear Mountain was avery steep ascent/descent of rocks. Late afternoon, I went up 2,365'Mt. Race crossing into Massachusetts with not enough water and by thetime I got to my campsite, I sat down and just passed out for about an hour.6/02:Hiked 18.2 miles. Two things that happened over night. At 10:20 pm, Iwas in my tent sleeping and was woken up by bears ( that's with a¢S¢) coming into my camp. I did not open my tent to see them, butthere were more than one of them. They checked the place out andmoved on. In all about 15-20 minutes. I then went back to sleep. Thenat 1 am a very heavy rain storm came through and most of my thingsended up wet. On the fourth day of heat and humidity, I hiked 18.2miles with very weak legs including going up and over 2,602' Mt.Everett, which was nothing but wet slippery rocks. I spent the nightat the Day's Inn in Great Barrington.Storyof the day: After checking into my room and getting cleaned up, Iwas ready for a burger and a beer. Right in front of the Day's Innwas the town's Welcome/Visitor Center. I stopped in to find a placewhere I could get a burger and a beer that was in easy walkingdistance. Upon entering, the woman greeted me by saying thatbefore she help me, I needed to tell her where I was from. When Itold her Toledo, Ohio she got very exceeded and told me she had justbeen there last Thanksgiving to visit her cousin. She then told mehis name, and asked if I knew him, when I said no, she said that hewas a very famous lawyer, and in a small town like Toledo, I shouldknow who he was. I told her that I have no reason to know anylawyers, and that Toledo was not a small town, but had 300,000 peoplein it. She responded by telling me that he lived in the very niceneighborhood by the only nice park in Toledo. I asked what she wastalking about, for Toledo has a number of very nice parks. She cameback by asking me which part of town I lived in, and whenI told her downtown, she said that I must be poor for no one wouldlive downtown if they could avoid it. It was time to change thesubject. I told her I had come in, looking for a nice restaurant nearby for that I wanted to get a burger and a beer. Next to her was astake of magazines with all the town's information and maps in it.She opened the top copy to help me find a restaurant and I remindedher that I wanted a burger and a beer. The first place she told meabout, she said that they serve breakfast all day, and I asked her ifthey have burgers and beer, she said of course not. I again told herthat I wanted a burger and a beer, so she told me of another placethat is only open for breakfast and lunch. Again I said, I want aburger and a beer. Next she started telling me of a good Mexicanrestaurant, I reached over the counter and grabbed a copy of themagazine telling her that I was positive that I could find arestaurant that serves burgers and beers long before she could, and Iwalked out.6/03:A much needed zero day. Got all my things dried out, and got my actback together again.