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  1. 19 June 2010

    19 June 2010, Rock Spring Hut
    The day started out slow with everyone being awake and waiting for Bluesky who was not even out of her sleeping bag yet. We were all up at 7:30 and pretty much ready to some extent. When Skyblue was done and ready it was 9:30. We got to the trail head at 10. Rick our shuttle guy is slack packing his wife all the way to Maine, her trail name is HDMomma. After he drove off Max Factor showed up at the trail head and asked us if we wanted a cold drink and gave ...
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  2. 18 June 2010

    18 June 2919, Hightop Hut
    After leaving the side trail to the shelter this morning and heading north about 0.1 I met Warren Doyle heading south along with Calculator. Warren knew who I was and started going on about the WhiteBlaze web site. He started complaining about being kicked off the web site and said he had a lot of valuable information he could share. I was not going to get into this with Warren right now. I was on the trail to hike not to listen to complaints. I had someone else ...
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  3. 17 June 2010

    17 June 2010, Blackrock Hut

    I woke up at 5:31 with the alarm this morning and my knee did not bother me for about 10 minutes. I was thinking everything would be fine. Then the pain started again. It was not as excruciating as earlier this morning but it is unbearable at times. I am very worried. I took four more vitamin I's and laid in bed waiting to see if that will help and waiting for Seabass to wake up. I think I might have to go to the emergency room today. This has me really ...
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  4. tent

    i bought a one man tent from llbean. using it for ap trail in april. firsttime thru hiker. would this be ok or a bigger tent.
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  5. 16 June 2010

    16 June 2010, Waynesboro
    I got up early today because we were supposed to leave this afternoon around noon and I had errands to run. I went to Kroger to get a few things, got a haircut and went to the post office to mail a few things home. At noon Blue Sky had a headache and Bismarck told me she extended her room until 1 pm so she could lie down for a while. We all decided to extend our rooms too. Bismarck came to our room and was hanging out while we waited for Blue Sky. The weather was ...
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