Miles: 12.2
Total: 358
Sights: Huge Rattlesnake
Our short day today allowed us time to go the Belllvale Creamery. We’d heard about this place back in PA from our Manhattan friends. I’ve been holding out on icecream until today. Delish.
We met up with some section hikers today, very fun to chat with them and at the creamer we had a little hiker pow-wow. There were six of us, Questdoc, H2Go, Rayo, Flatlander, and ourselves. At this juncture, Rayo also came up with a trailname for Jamie: Whip-poor-way. This came about from a joke he made about the whip-poor-will birds that were keeping us all up at a shelter some nights before while we were wondering what made them go on and on (“Well, where there is a whip-poor-will, there is a whip-poor-way!”). He likes it because he 1.) loves to make silly puns and 2.) likes to make bird noises.
The hike today was easy and pleasant. The first 10 were lots of big rocks and boulder. It was really challenging but quite engaging. We saw a huge rattler on one of the peaks!
P.S. Rayo, whose name you've seen a few times now also has a blog of his adventures. follow him here:
http://www.followingblazes.blogspot.com/
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