For the last two days Sunshine and I "beat the heat" we stayed at the duchess motor inn in Wingdale NY. The heat wave that took over the nation this past week was not good for us hikers. Many people got heat exhaustion or were just plain miserable. With heat indexes around 110 we found it best to get off trail for the two worst days of it.
Today we left the inn at 930am and hitched back to the trail. Our plan was to do 15 miles due to the fact it was still pretty hot. During first lunch 6 miles in we saw Bottle Cap and fun size, who we hadn't seen since DWG. NJ also there were some new faces. Sunshine and I left after about an hour break headed for Ten mile river shelter. Once we arrived at the shelter we went down to a little pebble beach type area and took a dip to cool off. After cooling down we decided to push 3 miles further than planned to get 18 miles for the day. We are in Connecticut finally and on our way to Massachusetts, we should be there early next week.
I'm am now tented out behind the Algo shelter area, Sunshine is close by in her hammock and there are a few other hikers here, not sure who is here other than fozzy bear due to the fact it was dark when we got here. Algo shelter area is terrible for bugs, mostly mosquitoes. .. so many many many mosquitoes so many I can hear the steady humm from their wings outside the tent, it was absolutely torture setting up camp even after I sprayed myself with 100% deet. Bastards I tell you!
The picture is of the largest tree on the AT it was in NY
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