Date: 2015-05-19
From: campsite

To: Paul C. Wolfe Shelter
Miles today: 154.7
Weather: light rain

Day 6 - campsite to Lambert's Meadow shelter 11.7 - 62.8 miles total!! Last night I camped on a ridge alone, if I'd had looked at my AT book I could have eaten a wonderful meal at the HomePlace oooo well at least I was able to hear all about it. Yummy!!! Good things I wish be in town tomorrow for resupply, ditching stuff, and eating some McDs!!! Today was great but very hard. Hiked up to McAfee knob took some great pictures. Hiked on to the next shelter and meet Pig Pen and his best friend hiking together. They took off I stayed a few, then headed out to hike this extremely hard hike up to tinker mtn/tinker cliffs. Omg!!!! If I had my hiker legs maybe it would have been ok, but this was all straight up. Then I ran out of water on the way up. I drank so much it was crazy!!! So I just glanced at the views cause I still had 1.7 miles before a water source! This awesomeness me guy (handsome) Tim gave me about an ounce of ice cold water! Not lots but enough for me to fall in love!!! ;-)jk seriously it was very nice of him. I finally made it to camp. Ate a little more than usual, and am look forward to the 9 mile hike tomorrow to shower after 6 days and town stuff. Word Up!!! LATER!!!! Day 7 - Lambert's Medow shelter to US 220 - 9.4 miles total miles 2015 72.2. On a scale of 1 - 10 on the level of hiking this week I give today a 4. One because I was still tired when I woke up at 6 am to get ready to leave. That didn't work due to the fact I took a double dose of IB and relaxation mess. I couldn't remember if I took the first dose so I made sure I took the other. It only made me that much more sleepy. Except for the nightly calling to pee and the bear that was roaming the camp all was pretty nice! Started out at around 7am for the 9.4 mile hike into Daleville. Heard that all the hotels were sold out so the plan was to get all I needed for resupply and such before heading to the city park in Troutville to camp free and shower. Seemed like most of the hikers we're going there. Soon as I hit hwy 220 I saw this hotel and they had a nice cheap hiker rate so I signed up. After seven days I think my body and legs needed a night of a good bed. Tomorrow will either be a short 5 mile or a longer 11 mile??? Still not sure. Plan is to start 15 mile days on Monday! WORD UP!!!!! Day 8 - Daleville- Zero day!!! My legs said no!!! LolDay 9 - Daveille to Bobblets Gap Shelter - 18.5 miles! Easy morning. Stopped at 2nd shelter in 11.4 miles in was going to stop, but decided to push on another 4 miles, ended up going to next shelter which I was excused and was late by the time I made it. Ugh was I tired! WORD UP!!! Day 10 -Bobbleys Gap Shelter to Bryant Ridge Shelter! 13.5 milesTough day!!! The water hole was nice, and so is the shelter except for the black flies!!! Ugh!!!Need to rest and relax before tomorrow's big up!!!!WORD UP!!!! Day 11 - Bryant Ridge Shelter to Matts creek Shelter 22.2 milesNot that bad of a day, def not what the book looks like! Beautiful views. Hiked a good bit with Cappy and Wall-ee great guys and helped me get to Matts Creek. Also the trail magic in the form of a Dr. Pepper helped!! WORD UP!!!! Day 12 - Matts creek Shelter to Brown Mountain Creek Shelter - 22.2 milesToday started around 7am. I was going to go into town and get breakfast and milk but Wall-ee took off so fast and had a hitch I just decided to go on. That's why I'm out here. I did the first 4+ miles with no problem but then hit a wall due to lack of eating dinner last night. Bad bad move! I struggled for a while got my bearings and keep on. Big group slack packing today from town. But they are a great group. Even made me feel like one of the they hikers when a stranger wanted a pic. I was like no, you all are really thru-hiking, then Comrade was like No your doing such a big section, your a Thru-hiker! Made me feel nice the young folks are so kind. Almost stopped again just about 2 miles before the shelter, nice stream and camp site, but I ate a snicker bar and keep on. The next two miles took an hour I was so tired. Just me and "WildThing" at the shelter so far. It's 7:33pm. Very nice stream near us and it's going to get chilly I'm sure. Well I cooked tonight, about to eat then get in the bag to sleep. This hiking is hard, but feels so good!!! WORD UP!!!! Day 13 - Slack packing from US VA 60 to VA 56 footbridge - 25.5 milesWhat a day!!!! So me Sam and Ninja decided to do a slack packing day. This is when you just carry food and water and someone meets you at the end with the rest of your pack/stuff. With the idea that you can do higher miles easier. Ummm boy was it hard. Lots harder then I thought, I ended up getting blisters on my feet on my heals due to the placement of my feet being different without the weight of the pack. In total with getting water and all we did a full marathon from 9:30am to 7:40pm yes the longest it's ever taken me to do a marathon and I got no Bling for it, lol Ninja made it an hour before the packs were dropped off. She is super fast! And a good person it seems. She went back to town and me and SAM, stayed at the footbridge. The great thing was two packs of Scouts were there and they feed us and made us feel really awesome after such a hard day. I think they said pack 504 from Virginia Beach! Great crew!!!WORD UP!!!! Day 14 - VA 56 footbridge to Maupin Field Shelter - 9 milesHard day getting this 9 miles done still feeling the 25 from yesterday. But with a backpack back on. That mountain/mountain climbing we did was crazy. It's amazing how hard 9 miles can be just as hard as 22. But in the end we made it over and it was a great day! WORD UP!!!! Day 15 - Maupin Field Shelter to Paul C. Wolfe Shelter - 15.9 milesNot too bad of a day climbing wise. I do need to do something about my eating. I'm weak then ok then weak again. Prob could have made W-Boro today but I couldn't make myself do the last 5 miles I was tired. Great moments today tho were seeing the doe and faun (it's amazing seeing interaction between mom and kid in the wild, a wonderful 10 min of my life!!!), the bear, and snake with a mouse in his belly! WORD UP!!!