May 27

So I have been hanging out with a group of people this past week. They’re pretty nice and we all have similar humor which is good.

We kind of went brewery hopping the past two stops. First to Devils Backbone which was an amazing stop. Last two days in Waynesboro we spent at Basic City Brewing. That was also an awesome spot…

We hopped back on the trail today and did 21 to 22 miles to reach the first hut in the Shenandoahs. The shelters are called huts in the shannies.

Lilly said I should explain the confession. In every shelter there is a log book that you can sign. People leave messages about the day or say they’re stopping in for lunch. We’ve left messages for people behind us saying to catch up. Small stuff. Or big. Depending on what you want to do. I sign them some days and not on others… All depends on how I feel. The priest mountain shelter has two log books. One is an actual log while the other is a confession log. It’s tradition to confess your sins.

One such sin was from a hiker saying she had sex on the trail But no worries, they left no trace. (Leave no trace is a principle for hiking). Another was a hiker saying they pooped off a cliff (that’s definitely not leave no trace). Soooo yeah. That’s the traditional I talked about last post.

Hitting 900 miles tomorrow. Woot woot!