Boiled

June 18

Miles: 12

Location: Boiling Springs, PA

Weather: Really hot– high near 90. Really humid. Sunny. A little breezy.

Complaint of the Day: HEAT! 

My options today were limited. There is a long stretch of private land coming up that doesn’t allow camping along it. That means I could choose between doing a 12 mile day or a 26 mile day. While I like the idea of doing a full marathon day at some point, today was absolutely not that day. Today was just too painfully hot. Twelve miles was enough. 

One new thing today: corn fields. Also wheat, soybeans, and clover fields. For about a mile today the trail followed a path between a couple of farm fields. It reminded so much of my home in Michigan. It was a big change from the miles and miles and miles of forest and mountains. It was nice, except that it meant that there was no shade. That didn’t help.

Tomorrow there is supposedly a bunch more open fields. And thankfully it is supposed to be noticably cooler. Unfortunately, there is also a good chance of thunderstorms, possibly even hail. Not a great day to be hiking out in the open. I’m going to try to get up really early tomorrow morning and hopefully get most of my miles done before the storm hit.