New Trail Notes and Pictures

Today (Tuesday April 27th) Emily is in Bedford, VA at her Uncle’s house. She's taking a zero day, as in hiking zero miles, to recharge and upload photos. For the next few days she'll be doing some slack packing, which means to day hike and use the same sleeping location every night. In this case the sleeping location is a real house!

While not really a journal entry, Emily had this to say:

While walking all day (often by myself), I have re-written a couple songs. “Ode to Maintainers” (to The Man on the Flying Trapeze): “You maintain the trail with the greatest of ease; cut blowdowns in pieces move branches and trees; though just volunteers you’re as busy as bees; three cheers for the trails maintainers…ees; (where are you please??)”.  For those of you familiar with Michael Cooney’s song about Bosco: “I hate blowdowns, they’re bad for you and me. When you try to walk them they’ll scrape up both your knees. Push through slowly or end up your belly, and then you’ll hate the blowdowns—just you wait and see!”  The good news is the maintainers have been out now on most sections, so you can once again hike (rather than clamber) along the trail.

Keep thinking of superlatives and random facts you'd like to hear about. Right now the list is less than ten items, we can do better than that!