Beautiful day, low 60s, blue sky with puffy white clouds.
The Holly Inn is a great place for hikers to stay. They brought us breakfast to the room and drove us back to the trail for free.
Nice hike, several climbs an too much big boulder scrambling. Came to the northern end of the Blue Ridge Mtns. Dropped down into the Cumberland Valley and will spend tomorrow and part of the next day crossing it. The change was abrupt. We walked out of the woods and into lush farmland. The trail goes along the edges and between fields, some just plowed and some with grass/hay or alfalfa that is that bright, new green that you only see in spring. We arrived in Boiling Springs and the guy in the regional ATC office recommended The Allenberry Resort (http://www.allenberry.com). It is incredible! Don't understand why but they have an hiker special rate of $25 per person. I had a great dinner of trout, salad, vegs., and steak and baked potato soup (extra of course). HIKERS, you want to stay here!
I think we have this hiking thing figured out. Not really... soon enough we will be sleeping with the mice again. But southern PA has really nice shelters and really nice trail towns.
We met Bumpa today - a section hiker from Canada who has done the trail from Springer Mtn GA to here. He comes down twice a year.
We also met Toeman, a thru-hiker who left Springer on 14 Feb. (he has no girlfriend). He is about 6 days behind Nature Boy who left in early Feb. However, Toeman says he has done the whole trail including the Smokies. Nature Boy still needs to go back and make up that section so right now, I give the lead to Toeman in the race to be first to complete a thru-hike in 2010.
I need to go to the privy (see picture) then time for bed.
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