Start: Mt. Algo lean-to
End: US 7 (Belter's campsite)
Miles: 22.9 today, 1470 total
Long day with some tough terrain. Pulling 26 miles was a tough job. I left camp a little after 7:30am, Sassafras left at around 6:45. I caught up to her at the Silver Hill Campsite around 1pm. She had been chatting with a "family" that I met my first night at Mt. Algo. I say "family" because it was a piece-meal assortment: aunt and uncle from one branch, nephew from another, niece from another. As in, 3 branches. The uncle is in the PATC, and we talked about that a bit back at Mt. Algo.
So then I passed Sassafras there. Got to Belter's Campsite just before 7pm, stopped and waited on her. I didn't want to get to her house before she did, thought that would be a little awkward. "Hi, you don't know me, but let me stay here anyway. Got any ice cream?" While I waited I got water and had a good chat with Tenderheart, who took a 3-mile yellow blaze earlier today. We talked about the various pressures of finishing a thru-hike, but also how the end was in sight.
Sassafras got to Belter's around 8pm, we decided to get a ride, rather than walk the rest of the way in the dark. Used my cell phone to call her parents. They're in their 80s, really nice. Got a shower, dinner, called home, and sleeping on a pull-out couch!
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