![]() ![]() Before long, I reached the turnoff to the Mohican Trail Center, which offered a store with ice cream cones and cold La Croix.Ī quick look at the map revealed a blue blaze that continued from the Mohican Trail Center along a side trail called the “Rattlesnake Swamp Trail.” With a name like that, how could I resist? Especially with ice cream along the way.įinding the Rattlesnake Swamp Trail turned out to be a challenge as it was neither blue blazed nor signed, and because FarOut’s map base layer wasn’t working, so I couldn’t see where I was. Was this the first mountain pond we’ve passed on the AT? It felt like it. I walked the edge of Sunfish Pond, a place I’d seen in hundreds of AT videos and read about in twice as many blogs. Someplace I’d driven across the country to see. But this felt like someplace I wanted to be. I don’t know where I’d been for the last two weeks. Somehow, this felt like hiking the AT again. I stopped and ate an apple on an open peak, watching the clouds and looking down at the Delaware River and a series of small lakes. The lack of smoke and humidity also improved the wood’s lighting, making the green ferns blanketing the forest floor stand out against the brown leaves and grey bedrock that shifted tones as puffy white clouds sped across a blue sky above. Without the Canadian smoke and with the break in humidity, I finished the 1,300-foot climb with hardly any effort, stopping only to record passing the 1,300-mile marker. The air, freshly scrubbed clean by the morning rain, had no smoke residue and still had a morning chill at noon. The wide, smooth trail followed an abandoned forest road above a rushing brook. Love at First SightĪfter crossing under Interstate 80 and taking only a few steps back into the woods, I knew I loved New Jersey. For that matter, three weeks from now I’ll be in Vermont, if all goes according to plan. However bad New Jersey might be, I only plan to be there for four days. They’re itching to prove themselves on some rocks. And I’d finally pulled out a new pair of shoes. I haven’t seen a bear since Daleville, Virginia, more than 700 miles south. New Jersey is the Garden State, how bad could it be? Plus, New Jersey supposedly has the highest density of bears on the entire AT. But these days, I’m also skeptical of any trail information I get. I passed a ranger who told me the same thing everyone else has – New Jersey is just as rocky, hot, and humid as Pennsylvania, at least for 40 miles, and the mosquitos are ferocious. Heading Outįueled by two DQ cheeseburgers and a chocolate milkshake I set out from the Delaware Gap Visitor Center parking lot and headed for the 1,300-foot climb back up the ridge. But we have to hide it in between fetch sessions or he’ll chew it apart. Lately, he’s started catching it off his chest by jumping and crossing his legs. He found a lacrosse ball somewhere and will chase that thing until he drops, even though catching it mid-air may someday knock out his teeth. The rain had stopped by 11:00 when I packed up the van, so Gus and I had a chance to play some fetch in the empty parking lot with his favorite ball. We’d get our money’s worth out of this motel stay. Northstar and Gus looked very comfortable. The afternoon forecast predicted sunshine and a breeze. I only had 13.7 miles planned for today and no need to hurry. The motel couldn’t kick us out until 11:00 am. It called for more showers until noon, with rain accumulation of one to two inches possible. When I woke at 5:00 am this morning, I heard rain pattering against the windows. I like to hit the trailhead by 6:30 am, or earlier if possible. NWS Precipitation Image overlays are provided by the National Weather Service. USGS rain-gage data shown in the table are available at Water Data for the Nation : Current Georgia Precipitation “ – – ” Parameter not determined, usually due to missing data.The "no data" icon is the result of an NWISWeb status code: The colored portion of the icon will represent the precipitation amount for that time interval. Half colored icons designate gage data that appears to be logging correctly but is over 1 hour and 15 minutes older than the NWISWeb time stamp at the top of the Rainfall page.Hourly and Daily values are calculated from the last time a gage value was updated, which is not necessarily the time this web page was updated. * For precipitation values less than 0.01 inches, the USGS gage symbol is white and the National Weather Service overlay is transparent. Legend colors refer to both USGS gage and National Weather Service precipitation overlay (at full opacity). ![]()
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