Set off hiking really early, around 6am, its still dark out. Chowder is a cool dude to hike with. Its raining but spirits are high. Hiking can go from the last thing you want to be doing to the most fun you'll ever have, and I experienced the full spectrum on the 5 months I spent hiking. This hike is cool because I have a chill hiking partner and the sunrise comes up and we watch the fog come through the valley. By 9am we reach the NOC and its pouring rain. We meet up with Live who spent the night somewhere around the NOC, we post up in the pavilion and charge our devices. We can't get into the hostel until 11 and the beer store doesn't open til 10. The hostel here is slightly disappointing, with design cues from a chicken coop, but I feel oddly at home surrounded by the OSB walls. At least the showers are hot. I hitchhike for the first time in my life down to a gas station to buy spaghetti and sauce for dinner. Facts whom I first encountered near Rock Gap gets a bunk in the hostel as well. I meet Spaghetti and Motor(who gets renamed Papa Squats at some later point) sleep in the cafeteria, I should have thought of this.
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| A rainy sign at the NOC |
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