Journal Entries

Seems like a lot of stuff for one person. Planning today’s route over breakfast.

You should see the other guy. Oh wait, there is no other guy, just the snow where I plowed my face 2 days ago. My first “black” eye ever. It wasn’t like this yesterday.

Without a mirror the only way to see your face is to take selfies. This morning I was feeling a little rough so thought I’d take a picture to assess the damage. I’m looking a little rough!

Day 11 - 20 March/Wednesday - One state done, 13 states to go... Resupplied with camp food at the “Top of Georgia Hostel” and hiked 8.9 miles to Bly Gap campsite and spring at mile 78.2, just north of the Georgia/North Carolina border.

Almost time for bed. I had the time and enough melted warm water to give myself an upper body sponge bath. That felt great.

Watched the full moon rise, behind thin cloud cover, on this first day of spring.

Not so sore tonight. Did 9.6 KMs, not too bad for starting at noon and taking it careful.

A great day.

The makings of an amazing late afternoon decaf mocha. One hot chocolate package, 3 tbsps of whole milk powder and a packet of Starbucks VIA decaf. Mix it all up in packet first so it dissolves better in boiling water.

Nice temps today. Was 5-8C today. Snow granular and soft, not hard packed and icy. Yay!

Last night’s refuge had a big pot I could melt snow in. I then either boiled that melted snow for food and drinks or I filtered it for today’s drinking water.

No pot here so I needed to find something to hold the snow. Ziplock food bags to the rescue. Happy I had my coffee pot along so I could melt snow for filtered/boiled drinking water and eat and drink from my mug/cup at the same time, which was handy since I needed to eat supper!

Staking out my claim in the refuge. Unpacking for the night, making “camp”

View out the wood door of the refuge. The chopping block is sitting on ground level. The snow out there is taller than me.

I haven’t seen too many lean-tos or 3 sided shelters in Quebec. Reminds me of the Appalachian Trail.