Date: 2007-07-03
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Miles today: 0.0

So I've been stuck in Waynesboro for the past 3 days now. One of my good friends and her boyfriend are meeting me here so we can all hike the Shenendoahs and 50 miles to Harper's Ferry, WV together. They were supposed to arrive yesterday afternoon, then they messed up their tickets so figured out a bus/cab duo to make it here by 10 PM last night... then they missed their bus. So now they're arriving at 10 PM tonight. Aaargh, it's just getting a wee boring hanging around the campground field behind the YMCA. There are many great hikers to hang out with and we've been getting somewhat creative recently (yesterday Seagull, Ben, & I created "hiker golf" which consists of 2 trekking poles for a hole, one pole for the club, and a smashed beer can wrapped in duct tape for the ball. Under par you dole out drinks and over par you drink. Let's see what game will be discovered today!) This is an extremely hiker friendly town which has been great. There's a trail angel network of locals that one can call in order to get a ride to a from the trail head as well as other locations around town. Trail Angel Glen drove Ben & I to the outfitter and back yesterday which was very helpful. One of the load straps on pack is coming apart so Osprey's sending me a brand new pack in Harper's Ferry, I'm glad that's all taken care of. Oh yea, and I just sent my tent home today and really hope that I don't regret that decision! I haven't used it for the past 3 weeks and I've just been cowboy camping the last 3 nights at the YMCA and loving it... as long as the rain subsides. This is getting to be a very scattered entry! Other then hiker golf and drinking beer everyday in the field there's not too much to do in town. Yesterday morning Seagull, Ben, Coldylocks, Sudoku, & I went out for breakfast at Weasie's, a local hiker favorite, and it was delicious. And I've hit up the greek place, Chickpeas, the last 2 nights for dinner. It's not everyday one gets to enjoy falafel and greek salad on the trail... I'm sooo sick of greasy spoon food!The hike from the Dutch Haus to Waynesboro was nice. The next night Barbarossa and I made our way over to Rusty's Hard Time Hollow which was really really neat, I recommend the place to anyone out this way! We decided to hike the Mau-Har Trail instead of over the 3 ridges and it was definately worth it. The 3 ridges go over another steep mountain with no view at the top. Instead, the Mau-Har Trail was extremely steep and rugged (the most rugged on the entire trail so far) and went past several waterfalls and swimming holes, we spotted a rattler sunning itself by one of the falls which was pretty cool. Rusty's Hollow is hard to explain. He's been taking in hikers since 1982 and got electricity only 3 years ago. There's a kitchen area with photographs littering the walls and boots hangning from the ceiling and baskets full of nutter bars and oatmeal cream pies. He also has at least 200 ridiculous signs down him driveway and all over the kitchen and bunkhouse, plenty of vegetarian bashing signs which I found hysterical (Vegetarians beware: All utensils are saturated in meat juice.... and so forth). Rusty himself was a really nice old man. We arrived and Rusty, Pirate, Redline, & SledDog (the good one!!) were hanging out and playing cards. The next morning Barbarossa got picked up by his brother on the Blue Ridge Parkway and headed towards Springville, NY for his grandma's 85th birthday. I hung out at Rusty's for a few more hours and got to meet Runner, he has the record for the PCT (66 days) and used to for the AT. It was only 20 easy miles to Waynesboro so I decided to do it in one day instead of extending the journey. Which brings me back to this town, it's only 10:45 in the morning so I have plenty of time to figure out what's on the agenda today!... beer, golf, reading magazines. ? I can't wait to get back on the trail!