An early start and we enjoy walking towards the sunrise with great lighting through the forest.
We see our first beaver dam - up until now we have seen some of the trees that they gnaw to build the dams but this is the first construction. Loads of work. We straggle into lunch at High Point State Park - a national park office where people can collect parcels, so there are hikers doing their resupply on the lawn. We sit and eat and enjoy the company, and the spare food which comes our way - 'Does anybody want a KitKat?' well what can you say? eat up.There is a view to a long spire monument - we never find out what it actually represents. Finally we drop off the mountain and have a great hike with no rocks, walking through flat private froet and farmland. There is a guy shooting a gun on the other side of the lake to us - we have to walk across his line of site. he doesn't know we are there. We just think this must be normal for the US, and continue on our hike. As we emerge on the road we meet our first US policeman - 'trooper', who has been called on the mobile by Sourdough over the guy shooting his gun.
It's a long day and we struggle to make it all the way to the small town of Unionville where there is the 'mayor's house' a place where hikers are welcome to stay. We arrive and find about 10 hikers already in residence. They run the place by donation. We set up camp in the backyard and have hot dogs and coleslaw for dinner. The laundry and shower are great. There are 6 tents pitched in the backyard which has no fences - I keep wondering how the neighbours feel about this invasion. We discover that Boomer was here a few days ago - we met him on Day 2 of our hike - an Australian and havent seen him since, though his name crops up from time to time.
I think the Spire your refer to is New Jersey's highest point in the state.
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