Category: ATNOBO25

Evert trip I take, there is a spiritual theme for contemplation and meditation. The past weeks, the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary.

So many blessings and illuminations!

Visited my 85 y/o Aunt, providing a Communion Service for her and our common faith journey. Many others from the trail in the prayer.

Happily, it coincided with low temperatures and high winds. Tomorrow: Bear Mountain.

The Appalachian Trail needs qualified interfaith chaplains. IMHO. While I’m on the trail, we have at least one.

Finished Pennsylvania,  New Jersey. When I was trying take a photo during a thunderstorm,  the cell phone zapped out. This is a replacement phone. Cheap one. Really wanted the fire tower phototherapy near the Mohican center. Danf6. Lost all messages that were stored locally.

So far on trail… saw these:

• Beaver
• Beaver dam
• Deer
• Fawn
• Porcupine
• Fox foot trail
• Redbelly woodpeckers
• Rattlesnakes
• Other snakes
• Otters
• Turkey
• Wild chickens
• Toads
• Frogs
• Salamander
• Bogs
• No bear yet… Bear Mountain in a few days.

A Zero Day is when you come off trail for a day and give your body a rest. The recommended interval is every seven days. I chose to take an Uber to Stroudsburg, PA. For you purists, of which I am not, I’ll Uber back to mile marker 1290.4 to recapture the distance.

What do you do with a day off trail?

• Sleep from my late arrival (10 PM) until 2 PM.

• Treat injuries, nasty abrasions from pack log soaked. My knees knock. My feet ache. I’m having a great time!!! Let’s hear it for Advil.
• Resupply
• Go to Church, pray for those who ask for prayer or need prayer, of which I am a member. The priest was kind to open the Church for me, a special accommodation. A Deacon has the task of presenting the prayers of the human family as a precious gift to the Father. An evening oblation that the life course of these I know may be peaceful.
• Tomorrow early AM Mass.

Photos from my zero.

Bake Oven Knob

Soaking wet three days. Few photo opportunities.

See video…lol.

Susquehanna River then Rocks-ylvania