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10 April 2010, Locust Cove Gap
Left NOC at 10 this morning and arrived here at 6 pm. This was what I consider my hardest day on the trail to date. Going out of NOC was a uphill climb for a constant 6 miles and this is not an exaggeration.

We ran into a hiker today named Country. We had heard some stories about him from other hikers and we were a little leery of him so we moved on.

We ran into Snowman and Escargo who we camping on Cheoah Bald and they ...

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09 April 2010, NOC
I went back to the restaurant last night and ordered a pizza with pepperoni and bacon. While I was waiting for the pizza I drank two large glasses of lemonade. When the pizza arrived I was only able to eat one piece, I had drank too much lemonade. It looks like I will be eating left over pizza for lunch.

After breakfast I went to the outfitters and picked up another pair of sock liners. There was a container of laundry soap there in the hiker box so ...

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08 April 2010, NOC
I have been told that Dave has taken on the trail name of Willie Walker.

The hiker who was with us at Wine Spring for the night, whose name was Dry Clean, wore mostly wool clothing with suspenders, my guess is that was how he got his name. I ran into him again today and he said he was trying to look Benton MacKaye and that was the reason for the way he dressed.

Towards the end of the evening yesterday a hiker we ran into in Franklin ...

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07 April 2010, Cold Spring Shelter
During the night last night we had a few incidences. The first was Ben (hoppers dog). He had his first experience with and owl last night. When the owl started hooting Ben barked a couple times but Hooper calmed him down. The next incident was a commotion over at Dry Cleans hammock. I could not here what was being said but it sounded like he was talking to someone. When I talked to Dry Clean in the morning he said that a hiker came in the middle of the ...

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I am trying to discover if the AT goes through one or more other small quaint towns like the town of Delaware Water Gap in PA. I use to live in that town and loved it for many reasons, but it became too expensive. I'm trying to find out if there are other towns like it along the trail. Thank you very much!