So far the terrain after Harpers Ferry has been incredibly easy. We hiked out of Harpers Ferry on Friday, May 17th and almost immediately hit Maryland. We did a 16 mile day on Friday and a 25 mile day on Saturday and we were out of Maryland. I love how fast I went through two states after being in Virginia for over a month. I've been hiking with Tarzan for the past few days. He was meeting his mom in Pen Mar County Park, PA on Saturday. She hiked a couple of days with us and invited me to stay with them on Saturday night. We left her car at Pen Mar Park (the AT goes through it) then Tarzan, his mother, Roswell, and I hiked 8 miles on Sunday and 9 on Monday. We ended up at a road where Tarzan hitch hiked back to the park to get his mom's car. We drove to a hostel that was 19 miles further down the trail and stayed at a hostel. We ate at an Italian restaurant. On Tuesday we left all the stuff that was in our packs in Tarzan's mom's car, she drove us where we got off the trail, and then slack packed 19 miles back to the hostel where Tarzan's mom was offering trail magic of hot dogs and sodas. The day went by real quick since our packs were so light. Once we got back to his moms car, we loaded our packs again and hiked 7 more miles to the shelter. We stayed with Tarzan's mom for a few days... she is super cool! She was extremely helpful and was very nice! Wednesday and today we did 26.3 miles. It was easy because we did 12 miles to Boiling Springs, PA and then it was 14 miles of no elevation, truly flat terrain to Darlington Shelter. We took a long break in Boiling Springs because it was a very nice little town. We got lazy and ended up leaving at around 4:00. It got late really quick. At around 6:30 it started raining pretty hard. Now that it's hot outside, the rain isn't that bad. We were 7 miles from the shelter at 6:30. We got there at around 8:20... just before the clouds made it nearly impossible to see the wet rocks under us. Tarzan wants to make it to his house in NJ as soon as possible so I'm doing big miles with him. I want to do the second half of the trail way quicker than the first.
