Flip Flop Hikers: boulder fields

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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Smudgy Cheeks Day 42 (Sunday, May 8) 318.6 miles total

I hiked 10 miles today. I stopped at a restaurant four miles on the way to the shelter today. After eating there were a lot of rocks, boulder fields, and cliffs on top of mountains (called Knife Edge) to hike over. It was pretty crazy hiking!! There are literally cliffs on both sides of you! I'm at camp now and ready to eat and go to bed!

Such a beautiful day and beautiful views!

Knifes Edge. Literally an edge to hike on!

More of the hiking trail today!

This is crazy!

Happy today was so nice!

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Sprout Day 41 (Saturday, May 7th, 2016)

It was nice staying at Eckville Shelter last night. We were able to dry some of our clothes and our rain fly and got full with some good pizza.

The caretaker's house can be seen here on the left

That's the privy with a flushing toilet!

Picnic table at the shelter

Eckville Shelter. It's enclosed with two doors so there is a nice breeze through it.

Bubbles inside the shelter

We knew that there were going to be a lot of rocks in the terrain today so we just planned to go to the next shelter. It was a tough day and there were definitely a lot of rocks on the path. The rocks were slippery and it made it difficult to make our way through the mountains. We were thankful it didn't rain anymore. That would have made our hike even more difficult! I almost fell a few times but caught myself before I went down.

We passed a few weekend hikers, day hikers, and thru hikers today. We are still with Karma and Mountain Man.

It was beautiful earlier. I noticed so many different birds calling and took a video to try to capture the moment. It's nice to be able to wake up walk and listen to the sounds of the forest.

We got to camp around 3:30. Smudgy, Karma and Mountain Man were here and had just started a fire. I set my boots next to the fire before bed to dry them. We shared many laughs with our new friends, listened to the Greece soundtrack, and quoted movies around the fire. We plan on stopping at this restaurant four miles into our hike tomorrow for lunch. Tomorrow's hike will total little over ten miles.

A cool bridge over a brook

Today was another beautiful hike

Firepit

Spring

Hurting my feet!

It's weird to think of the cleared sections in towns. Wonder if they had to clear a bunch of rocks there.

Happy these were not slippery today.

Knife Edge View

You can do it Bubbles!!

Here we are on the trail

Going up!!

Close up of our climb

Toad for our animal count!

Trail Today

Day: 41

Miles hiked: 7.4

Total Miles hiked on the trail: 378.1

Bears: 0

Butterfly: 8

Chipmunk: 3

Cows: 24

Crawfish: 1

Deer: 20

Horses: 12

Inchworm: 1

Really Big Dog: 1

Mouse: 2

Nest of bugs: 1

Newt: 1

Rabbit: 1

Skunk: 1

Snail: 1

Snake: 1

Squirrels: 11

Toad: 2

Trout: 2

Turkeys: 4

Turtles: 107

Vulture: 6

Woodpecker: 1

Smudgy Cheeks Day 41 (Saturday, May 7) 308.6 miles total

I hiked 7.4 miles to the next shelter. There were a lot of rocks and boulder fields to walk over. It's starting to make my feet stronger. I can tell that my muscles in my feet are changing. Early today it was mostly cloudy and rainy but it cleared up as I walked up a big mountain hill today.