Day 70 – Daleville to Fullhardt Shelter

I just looked at some past mileage and thought I would list them:

• Days 63 to 69 – 104.8 
• Days 56 to 62 – 99.1
• Days 49 to 55 – 88.6
• Days 40 to 46 – 84.3
• Days 39 to 45 – 69.6
• Days 32 to 38 – 58.5
• Days 25 to 31 – 74.6
• Days 18 to 24 – 63.4
• Days 11 to 17 – 51.7
• Days 4 to 10 – 61.3

Up at 8:00. Ate mini-donuts I bought at the market last night. Worked on blogs till 10:30. Got all videos and photos uploaded and all the blogs written. Just need to upload the text and insert the photo links sometime soon.

Overkill walked to the post office and Kroger. Got her new shoes and supply box. She picked up ramen, pop-tarts, and Propel for me. 

I got all my food and gear packed and was ready to check out by 11:10. Met Overkill in the lobby and we planned out our next few days. We left the Super 8 for the trail at 11:50.

It’s 96 degrees, no clouds, and no wind. We are going to go 5 miles to Fullhardt Shelter and then make decisions on what’s next. We want to get the big climb out of Daleville knocked out. 

We crossed under I-81 and passed the 1/3 of the way point. Woohoo!

Walked past a random pair of nice sneakers sitting beside the trail at mile 4. WTF?

Got to Shelter at 3:00. Rose and one other guy are also here. Filtered and chemically treated water from the cistern at the shelter. We have not had rain in a long time, so that water in the cistern has been there quite a while. 

Met a guy doing 35-mile days. He started at Springer on June 1. His base weight is 9 lbs. This is insane!!!

We decided to stay here tonight. It’s hot, and we did not get much break last night. We will call it a reverse Nero !

We are going to try getting up and moving by 6:00, hiking till 1 or 2, napping/resting, eating dinner early, then hiking again until 8:30 p.m. With this heat, that could be a good plan.

Got 7 days’ worth of blogs uploaded and announced to the world. Made dinner at 6:00. My fuel can is almost dead. Forgot to get a new one in Daleville. Curious to see if it makes it two more meals into Glasgow. If not, I can borrow from Overkill. In bed at 8:45.

Technical Notes:

• Mini donuts 1000
• Pizza 800
• Mini donuts 200
• Dehydrated chicken 170
• Ramen 580
• Fritos 200
• Water liters 3
• Miles 5
• Time 3:00
• Elevation gain 
• Calories consumed 2950
• Calories burned 3000