A wonderful breakfast in the Inn dining room at the hikers' table. Digby orders 2 breakfasts, but the waitress doesn't believe he will be able to eat such a big feast, so only brings him 1 pancake not three, much to his annoyance. We eat breakfast with two hikers, one doing a section of the AT and one walking the Long Trail which overlaps the AT for several days.
Our first stop on the trail is at Mountain Meadows Lodge - at 2 miles. We ask if they can give us a 'packed lunch' to take away. They have obviously had lots of hungry hikers ask this question. They provide us with an amazing lunch - a turkey wrap, an apple (what joy!), corn chips and 2 cookies in a brown paper bag. While they make up our lunch we meet the star attraction of the lodge - the pet pig - it has a scrunched up face and when I scratch it behind the ears, it groans.
After the night eating and drinking we are feeling sluggish, especially with a lot of steep climbing. We finally call it quits at around 5.30 at Locust Creek where we find a patch in the bush just off the fire trail, above the creek There are two crews working on Quamby Mt trail and it is in very good condition. We watch a track worker using an axe - it was so painful I was waiting for Digby to rip the axe out of her hand do it for her. But he resisted!
Today we clock over the 1700 mile mark and feel very pleased with ourselves. Our campsite is at 1706 miles.
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