Hello Folks,

  I am leaving Waynesboro today and will be heading North through the Shenadoah Park starting at about noontime.
  Next stop will be Front Royal, VA for a quick in and out and then on to Harper's Ferry, WV for a three day break.

  As for items to come home with me, I have a 3ft. long Rattlesnake skin that he shed, found on the Trail one morning. There is about 70% of the skin there, including the head and lower jaw down to the tail where the rattles would be  When I get home I will mount the skin and hang it on the wall for a conversation piece. As you might think, I sh_t my pants when I saw it cause I was looking for the owner of this skin nearby to where I was standing.
   I have not seen any bears at all, but have seen alot of deer, box turtles and other little animals including a few small snakes along the way.

I've got to go now, talk to you soon,

Have a great day

Just to let everyone know what has happened over the past several weeks. I have had my wallet missing, one really bad string of weather and a sore knee, but other than that everything is going good.

I am closing in on Waynesboro, VA and will be there in about 6 days. Then on to Harper's Ferry, WV and the halfway mark, just a few days after that.

So, if you have NOT sent a card or letter, get busy and mail it today, to either of these towns.

Till later, Got to Hike,

Grizz

It has been a while since I last wrote about my hike and the reason for that is that I wanted you to stop laughing and change your pants from wetting them so much; after hearing about my dilemma.

So now, we will move up the Trail a bit and give you something else to laugh about.

As you may know, I enjoy eating more than anything else, except for one thing thing and we won't touch that subject at all.  Now back to the eating. This one day Obsidian and I are leaving the shelter and the word on the trail is that there will be some Trail Magic at Deep Gap about 5 miles away. Like the old bear that I am, I can smell food a mile away without any problem. So, off we go and the trail is really nice to hike on for most of it not to many big rocks or roots to make the hike any harder than need be.

As we are hiking we are talking about what kind of "magic" will be down there. Will it be coffee and donuts or will it be more is what we are tossing back and forth all the to the gap. We are now within ear shot and we hear some noise down below us, our steps pick up almost to a run. Now this old bear doesn't want to be the last in line when it comes to food and he is chomping at the bit to see what they are offering. Obsidian is behind me by about 300 ft. and he can't keep up with me as I am going down this hilly trail.

I come to near the end of the trail and there is a sign for all hikers to follow the arrows to the Red Truck/Green Truck for a hiker feed all weekend!!!  WOW, Free Food All Weekend!!!!!  I'm camping out here and staying here till either they leave or they run out of food.

We ate till we couldn't move and then headed on very slowly till we got to the top of the hill that was over 5,000 ft high.

We enjoyed the food and the company and hope that it happens more as the trail continues north.
  Till Later,