Mostly clear, high 84. But it was less humid and much cooler in the Green Tunnel.
Good hiking day - fairly easy trail. We did 12.8 miles to Limestone Spring Lean-to. The woods here are very nice - not many vistas but a nice mixture of northern pine forest and deciduous trees.
Saw lots of people out fishing in the Housatonic, floating in kayaks, riding in a Jeep. Saw one nice trout caught.
As we came out of the mountains, we encountered a trail detour. The Rt. 7 Bridge is under construction and only has on lane open and no pedestrian traffic. We were warned of this by False Hope (in the shelter last night. We did not want the detour because there is a restaurant on the other side. While contemplating sneaking across the bridge, a new Toyota Prius stopped across from us. Turned out to be a former thru-hiker, Still Walking. She and her husband were out for a day hike. She knew about the bridge and offered a ride across. This saved us a lot of extra road walking out in the heat. TRAIL MAGIC!
In fact, she took us to the restaurant but it was closed. Imagine our disappointment! She took us back to the near side of the bridge so we only missed a few blazes. We kept walking and ate our Cliff Bars for lunch.
Falls Village was very pretty. The pictures are of the Iron Bridge and the falls just a little way upstream.
On to Salisbury tomorrow.
Still living the dream.
(No signal tonight)
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