Day 91 - 30th June - Free State Hostel to Tumbling Waters Shelter - 18.3 miles

As we start hiking this morning, we catch up with Gene again. We met him about 3 weeks ago when he had just started his hike - now he is much fitter. We follow the trail to High Rock and get a great view.

The  highlight of the day is the lunch stop at Pen Mar County Park - it has a toilet block and a soft drink machine so we drink icy cold Mountain Dew. We see a rattlesnake which is 'rattling' - there is a sign saying that they are protected in this area. Stickbuilt finds this amazing that they should be protected - we find it amazing that people are allowed to kill them everywhere else.

We stop and cook dinner at a picnic ground about a mile and a half before the shelter. Someone has left a bag of trail magic for hikers here - lots of MnMs, which we all scoff. On the last half mile to the shelter we meet the 'warden' of the shelter who has been doing maintenance at the shelter and tells us he has left an esky with apples and coke in it. We rush ahead to get the coke.

We set up camp alongside the creek. We have now left Maryland, and are now 8 miles into in Pennsylvania. Another state down.