Wednesday, April 20th

Today we knew we had another easy hike since we were so far ahead of schedule. We slept in a little and made ourselves coffee, oatmeal, and pop-tarts. We were only about 6.5 miles from Bly Gap so we decided we could camp at Plum Orchard Shelter (an easy 2 mile hike). We took our time packing and got out of Bull Gap by noon. We took our time walking, then took a break for some lunch. We were eating, then two older men came to eat lunch with us. They said they were doing a 3 day backpacking trip. We had enough interviews and footage at the time so we stopped asking people to be interviewed. After the old men left a kind of strange bearded guy came and introduced himself as Square Peg. He thru hiked the AT last year and is doing it again this year. He told me I looked like a young Indiana Jones and told James he was looking a little bit like Rambo. We decided those would be our trail names: Dr. Jones and Rambo. We left and got to Plum Orchard. We set up our enos and were planning on taking a nap; however, James' eno ripped in half so he couldn't use his. We woke up and tried to use the propane for the burner but it was out. So, we built a fire and started making dinner. We ate our dinner and I'm in my eno getting ready to sleep.