Sunday, May 22, 2016

May 21, 22 and 23 2016 - Zero Day, Slackpack Day and Zero Day

May 21 (0 miles)
Zero day in Pine Grove PA today at the Comfort Inn. Pat drove up yesterday and we spent the day running errands together. I shopped at Walmart for supplies then we went to the science museum in Harrisburg  (Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Market Street, Harrisburg, PA). We saw an imax movie "journey into space". We had dinner in Pine Grove at O'Neal's pub. Really great food and service in a hole in the wall place. We shared onion rings, I had pulled pork BBQ and Pat had a burger.  Later, I drove to Cabelas, the largest one (store) in the world to get a new water bladder.


Shopping at Walmart, escargot in a can (did not buy)


Vending at O'Neals, "glow in the dark" (did not buy)


Cabelas (did not buy)


Cabelas


Cabelas


Cabelas

Harrisburg has a lot of cow sculpture in the city

May 22 (9.1 miles)
Pat dropped me off about 9 miles north of Pine Grove and I slack packed back. The shuttle service picked me up and drove me back to the hotel. The day was not a good one. It sprinkled on and off all day, I was feeling lousy and my right knee was aching. As the day went on my left knee start acting up too. I had an ace bandage on the right side and that helped. It's the downhills that are the problem. The knees have me worried, I decided to take off tomorrow too after stumbling and going down (gently) on my right knee (into soft leaves). If I don't take time now, I may regret it later.

On the good side, I managed to hike the 9 miles back to Pine Grove. I met two really nice college kids (male and female) that spent a long time talking to me. Both were art sculpture majors, good luck with that. Near the end of the day at an over look a father and his 3 sons came up from the valley (on Showers Steps) and we had time to enjoy the view together. One of the boys pointed out their driveway, way down in the valley below.

The final 2 miles were very slow, very rocky and wet with rain, this is where I stumbled. The last mile seemed to go on forever. The shuttle driver was there when I arrived and she was very nice.


 Gotta love it

Trail marker

 I want this for my lawn


 Boulder Field (luckily the trail did not cross this one)


 View from Shower's Steps

May 23 (0 miles)
Plan to stay in the hotel and rest my knees

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