Mile 972 - Port Clinton We were excited to meet up with Brenda last night! Today we considered hiking a section of the trail and then returning to the hotel tonight, but the weather is terrible, so we chose to take the day off and hang out in town. It was a great break filled … Continue reading Day 91. A Day Off

Mile 960 - Stealth To Mile 972 - Port Clinton We had a half day of hiking planned to get into the town of Port Clinton. The trail goes right into the town and the post office where we have a package waiting is just a block off of the trail. There is not much … Continue reading Day 90. Port Clinton

Mile 942 - Stealth To Mile 960 - Stealth We are finally getting out of the industrial area and into more agricultural lands. The views through the trees are of rolling hills and farmland. Farmland Rocks, of course Temperatures during the day have been in the 40's and 50's. Perfect hiking weather. There has been … Continue reading Day 89. PA is Improving

Mile 922 - Delps Spring To Mile 942 - Stealth We have been carrying extra water for the last few days, both because this is a somewhat dry stretch of trail and also because the water that is available is not suitable for drinking due to contamination dating back to the early 1900's. We were … Continue reading Day 88. Superfund

Mile 906 - Stealth To Mile 922 - Delps Spring We are starting to see a little more Fall color, but still not comparable to Maine. Also, we are now in the worst of the Pennsylvania rocks and should be walking through them for the next few days. We are getting better at it. The … Continue reading Day 87. Rocks

Mile 896 - Delaware Water Gap To Mile 906 - Stealth We stayed in town to do some shopping until around lunch time and then hit the trail. We tried to make the most of our half day of hiking by walking until we ran out of daylight. The days are now noticeably shorter and … Continue reading Day 86. Delaware Water Gap

Mile 880 - Stealth To Mile 896 - Delaware Water Gap We have been walking along the same ridge for about three days. Finally today we descended toward the Delaware River. The crossing took us into Pennsylvania along a bridge beside interstate 80. It was such a peaceful walk with traffic flying by at 75 … Continue reading Day 85. Entering Pennsylvania

Mile 859 - Mashipacong Shelter To Mile 880 - StealthWe are planning to go into Delaware Water Gap tomorrow, so our goal for today was to get close enough to town that we would not arrive too late in the day. We are in an area that is pretty popular for hiking, so there were … Continue reading Day 84. Rocks

Mile 845 - Unionville To Mile 859 - Mashipacong Shelter The highest point in New Jersey seems to be a very popular day hike and the trail here was very busy. Fortunately, the AT diverges before the actual monument and leads instead to a viewing platform on the next peak. So much more peaceful than … Continue reading Day 83. High Point

Mile 828 - Wawayanda Shelter To Mile 845 - Unionville The trail led us out of the rolling hills of the last couple of days, into farm country. Most of today was spent walking along winding country roads and through fields. Trail leading through fields today Rocket has not been close to a cow before, … Continue reading Day 82. Unionville