Miles Today - 17.7
Location - Chatfield Shelter
Date - May 19
With a little under 18 to do today I planned on having a nice long lunch at the Visitor Center. I hiked just behind Lone Wolf for the first few miles. As I emerged into a pasture I found him frozen on the trail, staring down a horned cow with a calf right nearby. I slunk up behind him. "What's our game plan?" He shrugged, and the cow continued to stare us down. We ended up making a slight detour through some thorn bushes to avoid it, only to emerge with it in our paths again. We carefully edged around it. I hate cows.
Partnership Shelter was wonderful. Toilet, sink, shower, and a Visitor Center with pizza only a call away. I arrived at 11:15, having done one if the fastest 10.5 miles yet. The shower hardly qualified as one, but I got my hair cleaned.
Lone Wolf and I split a pizza order, myself getting a 14" pie and 10 garlic knots. I sat down on a shady bench and ate and read for awhile. The moment I stood up I realized my error. I was way, way, waaaay too full. I sat back down and focussed on digesting.
A mile into the trail I called it quits and stretched on a rock to read until moving became less of a nauseating process. The rest of the day was unfun. As I rolled into the shelter I declared to Rose that I was "post food," (politely interrupting her meditation) and collapsed.
We got a nice surprise later to find Kenny hiking into the shelter with just a few minutes of daylight left, on the tail end of a 28 mile day. He'll be hiking with us to Wood's Hole, so it's nice to get a bit of the gang back together. We're leaving encouraging notes for White Rabbit (Blanco Bunny) in shelter logs. Go Rabbit go!
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