Week Three

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.
Me by a beaver pond
Skyline
Bog crossing
NY NJ crossing without passports
Wheels
Vertical Climb
Hudson River
Manhattan NY NY
Monument New Jersey
Monument Lookout

Zero Day – Heaps of Prayer

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.

Church of Saint Luke
Friends Cemetery, Quakers
Ground in abrasions

Days 11-12-13 5/12/25

Bramble encounter
Cool guy injury
Lookout, Overlook or just plain look-see.

Bake Oven Knob

Love lost
Rocks-ylvania straight up. This is the Knife’s Edge.
The white Blaze in foreground and a double in background. That’s how you know where to go.
Rattlesnake
Not a Rattlesnake
A totally random pile of rocks by the Pinnacle. Manmade.
The Pinnacle
Kaleidoscope trail name
Preachers Knob
Trail is a river

Appalachian Trail Blazing North

It’s that time again. The most optimistic is to finish the trail in 2025. The expected is to reach Vermont. Let us journey together.

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