Bear's Den Hostel
The day started early at Dick's Dome. Though it looks a little junky I think that the bucky ball shape rocks. The hiking was mostly easy though there is still a lot of posion ivy to watch out for. The combination of the week I was away plus the new lower elevations has really filled in the trees. I went from young leaves and buds straight to a fully enclosed green tunnel surrounding the trail. It was so dense that I never felt the urge to put on my sun hat. That is the first time this trip 
I have gone hatless for a day.
The trail entered a region known as the roller coster for it's numerous steep 400' acsents and descents. The green tunnel magnifies this with one never having much warning what is ahead. I find hiking it easy though some rocks have been thrown in to trip me up. 
I manged them fairly well but a few got me so my feet are sore tonight. Along the way I took the time to read my book, a autobiography of Lance Armstrong I picked up in Damascus. In the end I read for two hours while out on the trail and finished it up tonight at the hostel. It started out kind of weak but really improved. The story was very compelling so that made up for some of the stylistic weaknesses.
Something that surprised me was how my publishing my schedual helped me. I have heard many say a schedual was a source of stress but for me just so long at it stays hazy and inexact it allows me to slow down more. I always have been chasing an invisible deadline but now I can get ahead and bank miles to take time off when something interesting comes by.
So you may be wondering why I am back a Bear's Den again. It just happens to be at the right spot and the thought of pizza for dinner was very pleasent. It turned out I wouldn't get my pizza for dinner. Queen Diva had perpared a feast for dinner and saved some for me. She and Snackbreak were exspecting me for lunch but since I had taken a short day yesterday I was running late and I made them worried. Sorry. :( Instead I ate it for dinner. It was excelent Eggplant Parmasen, Bow Tie Pasta with Alfredo Sauce, and a salad. Yum!
I couldn't let go of the pizza dream though so I baked one and I will have cold pizza for breakfast.
One last thing I forgot to mention a couple days ago, when I finished building that bridge they let anyone who wanted to to paint their very own blaze on the new trail we had just built. Mine looks great.
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