no direction home

Woke up at the muskrat creek shelter and started to get ready to go. Hung around late though so I could set off with papa tatts and young blue eyes, both real characters from New Hampshire. Young blue eyes leads a good pace and papa tatts hikes a similar speed to me. They believe in taking good breaks along the way and both of them have a great sense of humor. We were planning on doing 12 miles but thunderstorms rolled in so we did 5 instead. I'm on half rations now, I have 1 1/2 days of food and at least 2 days till Franklin for resupply. Food becomes an obsession out here. I eat approximately 3000 calories a day but I'm burning upwards of 8000. I've already lost a bunch of weight but it takes a toll on the body running a deficit that large. Looking forward to an all you can eat refuel in Franklin. In addition I'm out of tp so I've resorted to using a sort of "back country bidet", haha, it's all part of the experience.