Day 79 July 11

Day 79 July 11 Days miles 16.4 AT Mile 1260.9
Staying in AutoHome tent at PA RT 248 Trail Head
Hiking time 7hr
Pass plus/minus: +6
Critter Rescue - 3
Total Deer seen - 0 today , 66 total
Animals seen today - 1 Turtle

We slack packed today and again it was a good day to do it. Lots of rock fields, boulders to crawl over and a section called knife edge, and is similar to the one on Katahadin but much shorter and lower but still scary.

I first crossed the Delaware river.
They provide a lot of info in this section!
The outer bridge shelter, no privy though!
Views from the ridge.
This was one small section without rocks, it's mostly worse as later pictures show.
These are knife edge.

The one animal I saw today.
Jen was going north and thus would be picking me up and she beat me again to the trail head. When I got there I was greeted with trail magic which was great.

My shoes worked well on the dry rocks and are comfortable so glad I switched them out.

Afterwards we drove to the town near the northern trail head and had pizza for supper and then ice cream. It was still hot, 91 so we found the town library and ducked in there to stay cool and catch up on the news and download some podcasts.
The town Palmerton PA had a great war memorial for their local citizen heros.

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