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Made our way to Duncannon, where a resupply package should be waiting. Went to the 7-11 first, then to the outfitter where the package had been mailed to. The outfitter was closed down for the day, because of some of the owners personal reasons. As we Need access to the package, we decided to wait

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The tent held up. Lots of headroom in there. The Walmart blanket was a little bit cold. Not a good idea to get a blanket just 1.5 m in length. Got a pic of the resident shelter copperhead in its den. It didn’t like being a model; shouldn’t have set up den a foot besides

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Left the Ironmasters Mansion, went over to the General Store where we didn’t do the Half Gallon Challenge. Humidity was lower than the last few days, so the going was quite easy, even if the trail got very rocky at times. Set up the new tent for the first time in the evening. Lets see

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Got up early at Thru It All, got out of the children’s room, got breakfast (scones and eggs/ham/mushrooms). Started the hike with a 0.8 mile roadwalk back to the trail, then onwards. Met a rattlesnake, got rattled at, went on. At noon, a thunderstorm. Waited that out on the porch of a hut, then went

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Got up very early to beat the heat. Got our first 10 miles before noon. Very exciting! To celebrate that, we did just three miles more and stayed at the Thru It All Ministries. Had a new tent there waiting for us; gonna join the Dyneema gang! Before getting there, we got some smoked meat

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