Day 101 St. Thomas Episcopal Church Hostel

6/29/13
Miles hiked 18.9
Total miles 1352.6

Today started out like the last two, wet, humid and swarms of mosquitoes.  We both were very down due to the bugs and wet feet. Three days of wet feet and you start to have problems.  Sassafras calls it the New Jersey blues. But the last two hours of the day and the bugs died down and the trail was beautiful. We then got a ride from a great guy who wants to thru hike in a few years.  We dropped us off righr at the hostel. The hostel is very nice. We are the only ones here. We did laundry, resupplied at the grocery store down the street and had burger king for supper. We are now relaxing and watching a little tv. All is good. Kaboose

Today was fun. We hiked 18.9 miles. The weather was good. The trail was good. We hiked the longest boardwalk. We went to town to resupply. We are in a hostel. The hostel  feels homey. Sassafras

Day 100 high point shelter

6/28/13
Miles hiked 19.6
Total miles 1333.7

Today was long, hot and buggy. The mosquitoes were just torturous.  We think this is worse than the snow, ice storm or the week of cold rain and heavy winds. We were lucky to find a tackle shop on one of the road crossings that had bug spray.  There was a line of thru hikers buying some.

On a more positive note we had a nice lunch at the pavilion on top of sunrise mountain and got a free pepsi for being a thru hiker at tbe high point state park office. I also got a hot supper from boy scout troop number one from New Jersey.  They made too much cheese tortellini and were going to have to pack it out, so being the nice guy I am I helped them out. You could see the vegetables so Sassafras did not want to have anything to do with it. She had mashed potatoes and spam instead. We are now dry in the shelter while it is thunderstorming outside again.  Kaboose

Sassafras is sleeping,  she will update you tomorrow. 

Day 99 brinks road shelter

6/27/13
Miles hiked 24.8
Total miles 1314.4

Today was hot, muggy, the mosquitoes were unbeatable and we pulled over 20 ticks off if us. It was a long day now we are in our tent trying to get away from the mosquitoes and  now we have a thunderstorm.  I wanted to like New Jersey but this is not a good start. Kaboose

Today was hard work. We hiked 24.8 miles. The trail was great. The weather was good. We had a lot of bugs. We also saw a glacial pond. Sassafras

Day 98 Delaware Water Gap

6/26/13
Miles hiked zero
Total miles 1289.3

We took a zero today. We had breakfast at the bakery and then resupplied at Wal-Mart.  We got a shuttle from the pack shack for four dollar,  they were great. We spent the rest of the day eating and resting. We now will push thru New Jersey in 3 big days. Kaboose

Tosay was fun. We had a zero. The weather was good. We went to walmart, also known as wally world to thru hikers. We resupplied, and we got some snacks. Sassafras  

Day 97 Delaware Water Gap PA

6/25/13
Miles hiked 15.6
Total miles 1289.3

We had a great day. We are 0.3 miles from the New Jersey border.  We plan to take a zero tomorrow and rest up a bit. We have already had a great time I Delaware Water Gap. We had a hot dog and a piece of apple pie at a cool bakery and it was only $2.49. The post office and police department are in the same building and when we picked up a package the lady at the post office and the police office on duty were very cool and interested in Sasssffras's hike. We are staying at the Pocono inn, it is an old Ramada inn, a little dated but a palace compared to were we stayed last night. I think they had bed bugs. I was itching all day. The Pocono in is also ten dollars less tban the Gateway inn. Kaboose

Sasssffras is sleeping so she will update the blog tomorrow.

Day 96 Wind Gap PA

6/24/13
Miles hiked 20.1
Total miles 1273.7

Today was a long, hot day. We had a big climb out of Palmerton. We left at 6am to try to beat some of the heat. We also had a 1.2 mile round trip climb down a very steep mountain side for water. These off trail miles do not count.
We are at the Gateway Motel, it gived the Relax Inn in Va a run for the most run down motel we have stayed at (the Doyle don't count), but there is a thunderstorm right now and we are eating pizza so all is well. Kaboose

Today was fun. We hiked 20.1 miles. The weather was good in the shade. The trail was great. We hiked to a motel. We also had pizza. Sassafras

Day 95 Palmerton PA

6/23/13
Miles hiked 8
Total miles 1253.6

We took a short day in Palmerton. We are staying at the town jail house hostel. We are trying to rest for a big climb and a very hot day without cover because we are hiking thru a super fund site deforestation due to zinc smelting in the area for almost 100 years, ending in 1980. Kaboose

Today was fun. We hiked 8 miles. Today was hot. I think it is in the uundreds at one point. To trail was good it was mostly downhill. The town is great it is so beautiful. Sassafras