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[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

item #2 reminded me of my night at Uncle Johnny's when I must have
awakened 6-8 times due to the lovely sounds of earth-shaking trains; I
was sleeping outside on the ground - don't know if it was more bearable
inside the bunkroom . . .

thru-thinker

Sloetoe wrote:
> 
> 1) The road/driveway just west/downhill of Neals Gap. Found out
> how water tight Georgia clay is when the skies opened up that
> night.
> 
> 2) Cloverdale Post Office "back yard." After considering (but
> rejecting) sleeping on the rusted railroad tracks passed on the
> way into town, I was awoken from a dead-sound sleep by
> ground-shaking, ear-splitting, eye-blindingly-bright noise and
> light stemming from the start-up a linked herd of huge freight
> engines straining in the traces of a fourteen mile long train of
> sagging-heavy boxcars. Awoke in a flash and launched my
> (staked-out) bivy 30' before I realized the engines were not
> gaining on me. Took interesting pictures in the morning. Felt
> like a crime scene.
> 
> 3) Small front porch of small, straight-sided
> fully-furnished-but-long-unoccupied house at the "edge of town"
> just short of where the AT climbed back up onto some ridege,
> somewhere in central Virginny, having to hop a small barbed-wire
> fence, step over a small stream, stride over 20' of knee-high
> front lawn, and cook dinner amidst the return of the honey bees
> who were nesting in the wall between the front door and living
> room window. Pretty neat.
> 
> 4) Under highway bridge somewhere in NJ. Won't do that again.
> It's said that you could drive an entire college dorm nuts by
> simply firing up a true sub-woofer (inaudible sub20Hz output)
> and letting it go all day... I believe it.
> 
> 4) Puncheon (two railroad ties set parallel 3" apart) in
> Vermont, just short of (?) Little Rock Pond, VT. Slept great.
> 
> 5) Bridge over stream near Glencliff, NH. Stream noise was
> way-wonderful, the freshening breeze constant, the fear of
> rolling off (see #4 above) palpable, as between Little Rock Pond
> and NH was Smarts Mtn or Mt. Cube -- where I'd slept along the
> edge of the leanto, and rolled out (coming horribly awake in the
> middle of a dream of rolling off a mountain in my sleep). Got me
> doing more than one bridge as a nightspot for the rest of the
> hike; got me looking at bridges the same way I was looking at
> picnic tables: clean, flat sleeping surfaces where it was safe
> to put a spoon down.
> 
> 6) Front porch of abandonded house at north end of N. Woodstock,
> NH. Saw this little note in Delaware Water Gap, and remembered
> it as I was hitching into N. Woodstock exhausted after having
> done the Kinsman Notch->Franconia Notch haul in a day-long
> downpour. (Tired just thinking about it....)
> 
> Phew! Gotta go rest....
> 
> =====
> Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
>    Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
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