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Getting and packing up was greatly accelerated by the discovery of a yellow jacket nest in the shelter. Explains why Turmeric got stung yesterday evening. Made it out of camp by 7:30 trying to beat the heat; the mosquitoes didn’t get the memo of being active just in the afternoon though. Walked by a big

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Checked out of Cobmin Ridge late and discovered that Airquotes and Iceman had been there for the last night. They had Airquotes dad driving support for them the last days. Got Buckeye Boy set up in the car, then drove off to the trailhead. Got trail magic there from Moose, who had an awesome spread

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Turmeric’s parents have to fly back to Utah, so we went with them to Newark Airport, where they checked in, parked the car, then took the train into NYC. Walked around a bit, got some food (expensive, very good), walked around a bit more. Turmeric’s parents left early to catch their flight, then it started

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Another slackpack, this time from hostel to motel. Did an easy day, passing a beaver bog, getting rattled at, and having some nice lake views. Turmeric’s parents and Buckeye greeted us with trail magic, then we checked into the Cobmin Ridge Motel. Dave scooped out a nice local burger place, where we enjoyed some more

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Got up and ready to head out, when we noticed a bear on the lawn of the hostel. Was a big one. Strange sighting, they normally just come into town for bin day, which is way off. We had a whole send-off committee walking us to the PA-NJ border, which is just 0.3 miles from

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