Date: 2016-05-28
From: camp grounds

To: stealth camp site
Miles today: 20.9
Weather: scattered clouds

Day 47- May 28, 2016This morning we woke up knowing there would be trail magic to start the day. Dangers dad still had the party tent set up from the night before where he cooked chili for us. We walked over from our "not real camp site" and over to the covered area where we were greeted with the prospects of brewd coffee. We had about 4 or 5 refills of the small bowls full and then they made sausage and offered us bread with butter, fresh fruit, and cheese. We sat around and chatted with the family and some of the other hikers, storm trooper, danger, and red dragon, and then headed out for the trail. The terrain was relatively flat all morning and the weather was perfect, warm with the coolness of tree shade. We got about 5 miles in when we got to the next shelter. There, we came across the large group of night hikers who were still waking up and at about 11am. We got water from a stream and kept on hiking. Along the way, a south bound hiker passed us and told us that there was trail magic ahead. Dregs interrogated the man a bit, asking questions such as if it was a cooler left or people. He said people. We were excited for our second round of good trail magic of the day until we reached the road where the man had said they would be. We sadly looked up and down the road but there was no one around. As dregs slumped in disappointment, we turned to the trail and started up a small hill. Across the trail at the top of the small set of steps was a banner that was red white and blue with some patriotic phrase written out and many small USA flags around a tree. On the tree there was a sign that said "trail magic 100ft". From there, little flags lined the trail that led to a parking lot with a truck and trailer and a picnic table with a few people. They were making hot dogs and had tons of snacks and cookies and sodas. We ate two hotdogs and a bunch of the snacks while chatting with the family who set up the trail magic. Their kids played in a mud puddle and caught frogs which made me happy. After a nice long break, we got to hiking again. 7 miles to the road where we would spend 20 minutes hitching for a ride into town facing the wrong direction unintentionally. We gave up for a little to take inventory of our food we needed to resupply in town until two hikers we had just met at the Memorial Day trail magic, showed up and told us we were looking for a ride in the wrong direction. They started walking down the road to hitch and we stood finally in the right direction. Not long after, a lady with her small sweet dog picked us up. She flew down the twisty road to town and told us about her dog. We were dropped off at a grocery store and we got food for the next few days and some frozen cheesecake which was incredible. A guy on a motorcycle came over to talk to us and had his son, who was following in a truck, offer us a ride back to the trail. While they went shopping, we got cheese steak subs from Johnny's diner down the road. They picked us up from there when they were ready and we hopped into the bed of the truck. We were dropped off at the trail and just needed to find a spot to camp. We were taken on a road walk by the trail and got to a camp site right off the road. The water smelled like sewage and there was an overflowing trashcan so e didn't want to stay there. Willow, an older hiker we met yesterday, was sitting in that campsite and we chatted with her before deciding to try for a spot a little further. As we started passed the site, we realized we would be going up a large hill for about a mile before any spots would be available for camp. At the top we found a spot that was slightly slanted but we could make it work. Dregs went searching for a bear hang and discovered a nicer flat spot further back. We moved our stuff and set up. We had arrived at 7:45pm and so once set up we could watch the sunset from inside our tent. It was a beautiful orange. We found many inch worms and even a caterpillar on us while in the tent and freed our little friends. Today was a 20.9 mile day, we got great trail magic 2x, got hitches in and out of town, ate steak subs and cheesecake, and found a great campsite before dark. What an awesome day. And as we went to bed, the sound of the caterpillars poop bro point from the trees sounded as rain all around us.