April 16th - Day 46

The original plan for today was to hike 24 miles to Jenny Knob Shelter. After hiking for about an hour, 4 miles, we ran into Fresh Ground!!! This guy has been giving out Trail Magic from the beginning of our journey on the AT. He's cooked me hotdogs and gave me soup 4 times before today. He is a real Trail Angel! Fresh Ground really out did himself this time because he made us bacon, eggs, and pancakes. We hung out and ate until about noon and we still had about 19 miles to go. We said our thank you's and goodbyes to Fresh Ground and we were off. We all hiked together for about 9.2 miles and took a break. The next shelter that we were staying at was just under 10 miles away. The terrain was super easy all day so we got to the shelter pretty early, around 6:30. I was still feeling really good so I wanted to keep going. I  also wanted to push on because we were going to stay at a really cool hostel the next day and we were 21 miles away from it. I was scared I wouldn't have a spot. Tarzan, Dirty Mike, and I decided to eat dinner and start hiking again at 8:30. Before we left we all looked at each other and told ourselves we were going the full 21 that night, no matter what. We had already done a 24 mile day and it was 8:30 at night and we were planning to do another 21 miles, no excuses. The night hike went really well. There were more animals out and the weather was great. Once 2:00am hit, we all hit a wall. Ou pace slowed down quite a bit but we made it to Woods Hole Hostel at 4:43am and we got in minutes before it started pouring outside. All because of Fresh Grounds awesome breakfast.